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Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers gaming news on the US West Coast, including 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.
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Accused Poker Cheater Denies All Allegations
Ye Shen (aka Tony Mars) denies all allegations of cheating a private Southern California poker game out of $3M. The charges were leveled by fellow poker pros Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot and Wesley “Wes Side” Fei on X/Twitter this weekend. According to...
VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: New Foodie Options Open Along with Durango Casino
Station Casinos opened its $780M Durango Casino Resort southwest of the Las Vegas Strip at 6915 S. Durango Drive on Tuesday. And while its 83K square-foot casino boasts the latest in slot machines and table games, the selection for foodies is no...
Las Vegas-SoCal High-Speed Rail Secures $3B in New Funding
The high-speed train proposed by Brightline West to connect Las Vegas and Southern California chugged another step closer to reality on Tuesday. That’s when U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) announced that $3B in funding is now secured to begin construction. According to...
Las Vegas Lassos National Finals Rodeo for 10 More Years
A new agreement will keep the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas through 2035, according to an announcement made by Las Vegas Events (LVE) on Monday, three days before NFR 2023 debuts across town. “This is a truly historic day...
VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Miranda & U2 Announce New Final Residency Dates, Free Nelly/TLC Show
Country star Miranda Lambert has announced the final nine shows for her “Velvet Rodeo” residency. Opening at Planet Hollywood’s Bakkt Theater in September 2022, it will now close on April 6. “As someone who’s lived on a bus and toured from city...
Poker Pro Accused of Cheating to Win $3M
Ye “Tony Mars” Shen has been accused of cheating a private Southern California poker game out of millions. Fellow poker pros Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot and Wesley “Wes Side” Fei made their allegations on X/Twitter this weekend. According to the “Hustler Casino...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Las Vegas is the World’s Gambling Capital
What happens in Macau apparently stays there, too, because few Las Vegas regulars realize that this Chinese city has been the gambling capital of the world for 15 of the last 18 years. Sin City began playing second city in annual gross...
OSHA Fines Cirque for Injury at ‘O’ in Vegas
Cirque du Soleil has been cited for two "serious" violations by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The violations, which come with fines totaling more than $30K, result from an OSHA investigation into a...
Pac-Man Game Sets Guinness World Record at Resorts World
The Guinness World Record for “largest digital video game display” was set on Thursday night at Resorts World Las Vegas. More accurately, it was set on Resorts World, which has a tower that doubles as a 100K square-foot video screen. The record...
Vegas Officials Release Facial Approximation for Body Found in Lake Mead Barrel
The infamous Lake Mead “body in a barrel” now has a face. And Clark County and Las Vegas police hope that this will finally lead to a name. The face was created by the FBI using facial approximation software at its lab...