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1984 stories by Corey Levitan
Tom Dwan Wins Biggest Pot in Broadcast Poker History
Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ever seen in a televised or livestreamed game this week. The 36-year-old, who worked for McDonald’s prior to becoming a professional poker player, raked in $3.1 million during Hustler Casino Live’s Million Dollar Game early...
Resorts World Las Vegas to Open its Own Convention Center
Being the overnight destination of choice for conventioneers visiting the Las Vegas Convention Center is no longer good enough for Resorts World. The last major casino resort to open on the Strip wants its own convention action. Resorts World Las Vegas submitted...
Masked Magician Performs Secret Shows on Las Vegas Strip
A magical new Las Vegas experience takes a cue from the Magic Castle in Los Angeles, the secret lair reserved only for working magicians and the people connected to them. The 21-and-over show, set in a faux library, features flying handkerchiefs, a...
Insane Graffiti Art Loft Hides in Las Vegas Suburb
The wildest home we’ve seen in years has come on the market in Las Vegas for just shy of a mil. Its walls are slicked in gallery-grade graffiti and comic strip art, and dangling from the rafters is a sculpture of a...
A’s Release First Official Las Vegas Stadium Renderings
The Oakland Athletics have released the first official images showing what their new home in Las Vegas might look like. The images show the $1.5 billion ballpark constructed on the site of the Tropicana Las Vegas Resort Casino -- as has been...
Las Vegas’ Newest Cannabis Hotel Could be Violating Nevada Law
When the Lexi, a hotel promoting itself as "Las Vegas' first cannabis-inclusive property," opens on Friday, June 2, the question is whether it will operate legally. The 64-room nongaming hotel just off the Las Vegas Strip will permit and even encourage cannabis...
Celine Dion Sells Las Vegas Mansion for Triple What She Paid in 2017
If it was just an investment property, it succeeded. Canadian songstress Celine Dion has sold her Kardashian-esque Las Vegas mansion in an off-market deal for $30 million, according to the Dirt real-estate gossip website. That’s more than triple the $9.2 million Dion...
Sports Betting Bills Advance in Illinois and North Carolina
Bills impacting sports betting advanced this week in Illinois and North Carolina. Lawmakers in Springfield passed two bills likely to come across Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s (D) desk before the year's legislative session ends. Senate Bill 1508 forces Illinois sportsbooks to display a...
VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Planet Hollywood Ending, Summer House Sprouting, the Wong Goodbye
Las Vegas still has a Planet Hollywood Resort, but not a Planet Hollywood Restaurant. A big component of the A-list rehabilitation of Las Vegas’ image, the Caesars Palace staple closed after 29 years this week. The first Vegas outpost of the Hollywood-themed...
Las Vegas Never Forgot Tina Turner
Though Tina Turner retired from the concert stage in 2008, the R&B superstar -- who died Wednesday at age 83 -- was not forgotten by the town whose history intersected for decades with her own. “Tina -- The Tina Turner Musical” had...
