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Reporter: Corey Levitan

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.

Contact Corey at corey@casino.org.

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2028 stories by Corey Levitan

Is a New ‘Hangover Experience’ Coming to Las Vegas?

Ever wake up in a trashed Caesars Palace suite with no memory of the previous night, a tooth missing and Mike Tyson’s tiger chasing you? According to some very flimsy evidence, Warner Bros. is gauging audience interest in a “Hangover Experience.” The...

Corey Levitan July 20, 2025

Manny Pacquaio and Boxing Fans Robbed in Las Vegas

Manny Pacquiao was robbed of making history on Saturday night in Las Vegas, where the formerly retired boxing great had hoped to reclaim his welterweight title from current champ Mario Barrios. And most of the 13,000 fans packing the MGM Grand Garden...

Corey Levitan July 20, 2025

Smile for the Security Cameras Facing Your Las Vegas Strip Balcony

This week, X user @JoeWarner81 went viral by spotting an array of cameras in the corner of a TikTok video filmed looking out from a balcony at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas. The cameras were mounted on an adjacent low rooftop and pointed...

Corey Levitan July 19, 2025

VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: There Was a “Miss Atomic Bomb” Beauty Pageant

EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Nov. 27, 2023. Three days later, coincidentally, the true identity of Miss Atomic Bomb was revealed. Read that story here. In...

Corey Levitan July 18, 2025

Late Singer Connie Francis Held Las Vegas Record

Connie Francis, the wholesome pop star of the pre-Beatles era who died Thursday at age 87, was the youngest solo performer to headline in Las Vegas. At least she was in 1960, when she performed at the Sahara Hotel’s Congo Room in...

Corey Levitan July 17, 2025

Bellagio Fountains Assassin Could Face Death Penalty

Prosecutors will consider seeking the death penalty against Manuel “Sin City Manny” Ruiz The YouTube livestreamer was arraigned Thursday for two counts of open murder with a deadly weapon Ruiz allegedly murdered a rival YouTube streamer, Rodney Finley, and his wife Tanisha,...

Corey Levitan July 17, 2025

Michael Mizrachi Crowned 2025 WSOP Main Event Champ

Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi won the WSOP Main Event on Wednesday Earlier this summer, he won the WSOP's $50K Poker Player's Championship for the fourth time in his career He's the first player to win poker two most prestigious titles in the...

Corey Levitan July 16, 2025

VEGAS DINING NEWS: Seeing (Ole) Red Over Auto Gratuity, No Viva Another Vegan

Vegas diners reach the tipping point over an Ole Red receipt Another plant-based eatery dies on the vine in Vegas A July 11 receipt from the Las Vegas Ole Red has achieved virality due to several apparently outrageous elements. The receipt --...

Corey Levitan July 16, 2025

HOOTIE’S HOOT GOES MUTE: Darius Rucker Abruptly Ends Atlantic City Casino Show

Darius Rucker abruptly ended his July 12 show at the Hard Rock & Casino in Atlantic City, Casino.org has learned, when his voice unexpectedly blew out. "Y'all, I can't sing anymore,” he told his audience after only three songs. “I will play...

Corey Levitan July 15, 2025

Margets, 2nd Woman to Make Final Table at WSOP Main Event, Busts Out on Day 1

The historic run of Leonor “Leo” Margets' at the 2025 World Series of Poker was not as historic as millions had been hoping. The only woman to make the Main Event’s final table in 30 years was knocked out on Day 1...

Corey Levitan July 15, 2025