One of the great things about the scene over there is that most all players work as a house pro (salary) or as a rep (expenses) for a room somewhere. One of the other cool things about Japan is that because there are so many rooms and in the Tokyo area they all stagger their weekly tournies to avoid convlict with eachother, whenever you sign in for a tournament, they always ask you for your home room. If they get several players from the same home room, they work the draw so that you're not cutting heads with eachother til the later rounds. And, because you can play a tournament almost every night of the week in the Tokyo area, you'll generally run into the same players every night. It's like a mini tour.