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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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2099 stories by Corey Levitan

Ex-NFL Star Kroy Biermann Sued Over Alleged $52.5k Casino Debt

Former NFL and reality TV star Kroy Biermann is being sued for $52.5K in gambling debt he allegedly accrued at the Baha Mar Casino in the Bahamas. Sky Warrior, the company that apparently handles the credit lines for Baha Mar, claims it...

Corey Levitan June 28, 2023

UPDATE: Planet Hollywood Pools Reopen After Las Vegas Health Department Closure

UPDATE: Planet Hollywood reopened its two pools on Tuesday, June 27, after the resort corrected all compliance violations to the satisfaction of the Southern Nevada Health District. The pools had been closed for two weeks. EARLIER: Both swimming pools at Planet Hollywood...

Corey Levitan June 28, 2023

Las Vegas Sets Record for Most Consecutive Days Below 100 Degrees

Las Vegas has officially broken a weather record, and it's a good one, for a change. The National Weather Service office in Las Vegas announced that Monday's high of 97 degrees marked 291 consecutive days where the temperature failed to reach 100...

Corey Levitan June 27, 2023

Frankie Valli, 89, Weds Fourth Wife at Westgate Las Vegas

He walked like a man, down the aisle for the fourth time. Frankie Valli, who turned 89 on May 3, married longtime girlfriend Jackie Jacobs, 60, at the Westgate Las Vegas Hotel & Casino on Monday. “It’s terrific to have found love...

Corey Levitan June 27, 2023

WSOP Player Apparently Won Bracelet While Awaiting Trial for Intent to Murder Wife

According to Poker News, a man awaiting trial for allegedly attempting to murder his wife is believed to have won a World Series of Poker bracelet in an online game in Michigan last week. According to the Traverse City Record-Eagle, Rudy Gavaldon,...

Corey Levitan June 26, 2023

Why Aliens Keep Visiting Las Vegas

Earlier this month, we brought you the story of the US Air Force whistleblower who claims the US government has multiple spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin, and actual alien bodies, in its possession. Since then, Las Vegas has had a UFO sighting that...

Corey Levitan June 26, 2023

Bracelet & a Ring: Poker Champ Proposes to Girlfriend After WSOP Win

For poker pro AP Louis Garza, the $1.3 million he won in Event #50 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas on Saturday night just wasn’t life-changing enough. So the San Antonino resident dropped to both knees and changed...

Corey Levitan June 25, 2023

Las Vegas Billionaire: ‘I Gave Up Seats on Doomed Submersible’

Las Vegas billionaire Jay Bloom claims he gave up two seats on the ill-fated submersible Titan, whose five passengers perished in an implosion while exploring the Titanic shipwreck on Sunday. Bloom is the reported billionaire who brought the Mob Experience to the...

Corey Levitan June 23, 2023

Diver Who Perished in Submersible Rescued Crowning Las Vegas Titanic Artifact

French deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, one of the five people aboard the Titan submersible who perished in a tragic implosion on Sunday, was responsible for salvaging what is now the main attraction of the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor Hotel & Casino...

Corey Levitan June 22, 2023

Las Vegas Company Aims to Build Spaceport in Desert

A Las Vegas-based company says it wants to build a space airport, along with a casino hotel, on 240 acres of land it owns near Sin City’s border with Pahrump. According to Las Vegas Spaceport, it has been cleared by the Securities...

Corey Levitan June 22, 2023