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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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2097 stories by Corey Levitan

J-Lo Announces Vegas Residency at Caesars Palace

Jennifer Lopez will perform at least 11 dates at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace “Jennifer Lopez: Up All Night in Las Vegas” will start December 30 and run through March It will be J.Lo's second Las Vegas residency, following reported talks that...

Corey Levitan May 27, 2025

VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Bottles of Champagne Cost $575K Everywhere at EDC

Last week, photos of drink menus from the Electronic Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Las Vegas made the rounds, just as they did last year, generating the same social media outrage. That outrage came from people who mistook the menus as representing the...

Corey Levitan May 26, 2025

Nevada About to Stiffen Penalties for Illegal Gambling Operators

Nevada is about to pass a law giving it greater power to combat illegal gambling operations, both land-based and online. Senate Bill (SB) 256, introduced by State Sen. Rochelle Nguyen (D-Las Vegas) in February, passed the Nevada Assembly by a 42-0 vote...

Corey Levitan May 24, 2025
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UPDATE: Nevada Gaming Commission Approves $5.5M Money Laundering Fine for Wynn Las Vegas

UPDATE: The Nevada Gaming Commission voted 4-1 on Thursday, May 22 to approve the $5.5 million fine against Wynn Resorts recommended by the Nevada Gaming Control Board last week. Commissioner Rosa Solis-Rainey cast the dissenting vote, stating that the fine was too...

Corey Levitan May 23, 2025

‘Top Gun’ Experience Landing in Las Vegas

A 'Top Gun' experience will be built at the Strat casino hotel It is expected to open in the summer of 2028 It will feature fighter jet simulators and a recreation of the bar from "Top Gun: Maverick" Las Vegas will launch...

Corey Levitan May 23, 2025

Fontainebleau is 4th Vegas Casino Investigated for Money Laundering

Fontainebleau is the fourth Las Vegas Strip casino in a little over a year known to be investigated by Nevada gaming regulators for potentially violating anti-money laundering (AML) laws, according to the Nevada Independent. The new investigation was inadvertently revealed during a...

Corey Levitan May 23, 2025

VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Strip Casinos Earn Most of Their Revenue from Gambling

EDITOR'S NOTE: "Vegas Myths Busted" now publishes its new entry every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today's entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Oct. 21, 2022. The Las Vegas Strip has been the heart of gambling in the...

Corey Levitan May 23, 2025

Caesars Entertainment Sued for Alleged Assault Outside Las Vegas Strip Restaurant

A Nevada woman is suing multiple parties for failing to act following a gruesome attack she claims she suffered two years ago at a restaurant on the Strip's Linq Promenade. According to The Las Vegas Review-Journal, Malissa Danielle Miles claims she was...

Corey Levitan May 22, 2025

Two Legionnaires Cases Reported at South Point Casino in Las Vegas

Two separate cases of Legionnaires' disease are being investigated at the South Point casino hotel in Las Vegas, the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) announced Thursday. One case occurred in August 2024, while the other occurred in February 2025. Both are “travel-associated”...

Corey Levitan May 22, 2025

LOST VEGAS: Celebrity Dealers

Among the various illegal activities one might have stumbled across in a Las Vegas casino in the 1950s was celebrity dealing. Dean Martin reportedly ran blackjack tables for kicks between his 8 p.m. and midnight shows at the Sands, a casino that,...

Corey Levitan May 22, 2025