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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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2355 stories by Corey Levitan

Casino Gambling Exposes Apparent Health Insurance Fraud

Nearly 4,000 Bulgarians who reported themselves as hospitalized were logged entering casinos over 22,000 times during those hospitalizations Cross‑checks between casino ID scans and hospital records exposed widespread suspected insurance fraud The Eastern European country health insurance manager, which has launched an...

Corey Levitan December 30, 2025

Remembering Those Las Vegas Lost in 2025

Before the stroke of midnight delivers us into yet another calendar year, Casino.org stops to remember the influential Las Vegas figures we left behind in this one. The contributions made by these people shaped the Las Vegas we know today, from its megaresorts...

Corey Levitan December 30, 2025

VEGAS NEAR MYTHS: Stories So Wild, They Seem Like Urban Legends, but Aren’t

In the nearly four years since we began our weekly "Vegas Myths Busted" series, we've come across many wild stories that we thought for sure were myths. Most of the time, we were right. This is how we put to rest such...

Corey Levitan December 29, 2025

Tori Spelling Cancels ‘90210’-Themed Backstreet Boys Afterparty in Las Vegas

Tori Spelling canceled a “Beverly Hills 90210” event at the Venetian The ’90s TV actress and her former co-star, Brian Austin Green, were scheduled to appear at an afterparty for a Backstreet Boys concert next door at the Sphere Spelling blamed an...

Corey Levitan December 27, 2025

Thai Forces Rescue Starving Exotic Animals from Cambodian Border Casino

Thai marines rescued five starving lions and bears this week from a former casino in Cambodia The abandoned animals were used as attractions at the Thmor Da Casino before it was evacuated, used as a military position, and bombed amid Thailand’s escalating...

Corey Levitan December 27, 2025

VEGAS DINING NEWS: Fire Guts Chinatown Eatery, Secret Amador Opening

An early-morning fire Friday damaged the Halal Guys in Las Vegas’ Chinatown. According to reports, flames and thick black smoke were seen rising from the eatery’s roof at 5:50 a.m. December 26. Approximately 80 firefighters responded within minutes. (A Clark County fire...

Corey Levitan December 26, 2025

SILENT NIGHT, LUCKY NIGHT: Powerball Lottery Pays $1.8 Billion on Xmas Eve

It’s a wonderful life for the person in Arkansas who won the $1.817 billion jackpot in Wednesday’s Christmas Eve drawing. The second-largest lottery windfall in US history ended a three-month stretch without a top-prize claimant for the lottery game. “Congratulations to the...

Corey Levitan December 25, 2025

Casino.org’s New Year’s Eve Guide to Las Vegas

Las Vegas is preparing one of its most ambitious New Year’s Eve productions ever, blending its signature free rooftop fireworks with a brand new aerial drone display. The annual midnight fireworks display -- an eight‑minute Grucci spectacle called "America's Party" -- will...

Corey Levitan December 24, 2025

UPDATE: Travel Influencer Died in Las Vegas from Accidental Drug Overdose

UPDATE: Travel influencer Anunay Sood (legal name: Anunay Kuthiala) died from "combined ethanol and fentanyl toxicity," the Clark County Medical Examiner has confirmed. The manner of his death was ruled an accident. EARLIER: Anunay Sood, a popular travel influencer who died at age...

Corey Levitan December 23, 2025

Las Vegas Airport Traffic Crashes in November

Harry Reid International Airport posted its sharpest monthly decline of 2025 in November, continuing a year‑long slide in passenger traffic that even this year’s Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix couldn’t slow. According to the airport’s monthly report, released Tuesday, LAS saw...

Corey Levitan December 23, 2025