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Breaking News
El Cortez table game action comes alive on streamer’s YouTube channel
“Hey everybody, we’re here at the El Cortez,” Victor Ross says, greeting his online viewers with an air of familiarity before he begins to play.
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Gaming
Revamped down to the carpet, the El Cortez is positioned for a Las Vegas rebound
When the El Cortez changed the carpet on its gaming floor January as part of ongoing renovations, officials sensed customers would be interested in having pieces of the matting pattern as memorabilia and made it for sale in the gift shop.
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Breaking News
Las Vegas casinos with coin-play slots scramble as coin shortage hits US
Because of a nationwide coin shortage brought on by business closures out of COVID-19 concerns, casinos with the coin-play machines have had to scramble to secure enough coins in circulation for …
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Ceremony to honor El Cortez for inclusion on National Register
One of Downtown Las Vegas’ oldest residents, the El Cortez, will be honored for winning a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Councilman Bob Coffin will headline a ceremony at 4 p.m. Thursday to unveil a commemorative plaque at the hotel/casino. The city's oldest hotel to continuously operate under the same name, the El Cortez became only the second Las Vegas casino on the nation's cultural preservation list in February.
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Business
El Cortez joins National Register of Historic Places
The El Cortez has become the only Las Vegas casino that's still standing to join the National Register of Historic Places.
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News
Downtown school gets a little TLC from group that cares
At 7 a.m. on a Saturday, while most Las Vegans are still fast asleep, developer Arnold Stalk and his 9-year-old son Jacob are pulling on gardening gloves and priming paint brushes. The pair was among the 125 residents, ranging from grade school students to seniors, who volunteered last weekend to refurbish the dilapidated courtyard of downtown’s Las Vegas Academy.
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El Cortez
El Cortez aims at younger downtown crowd with revamped suites
High above the casino floor where customers are tethered to the slot machines, the El Cortez has spent months revamping its hotel to attract the young, hipster crowd finding its way to the new downtown.
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Casinos
A suite deal: El Cortez redesign contest, on a budget
The secret to success may be in improving the most basic of hotel amenities — the room itself.
Casino Guide > El Cortez
El Cortez
Description
Located in downtown Las Vegas, the El Cortez is one of the city's longest-standing hotel-casinos.
The 45,000 square foot casino includes more than 1,000 slots, blackjack, craps, keno, Pai Gow poker, roulette and Megabucks. The poker room offers three tables of Texas Hold 'Em and seven-card stud.
Dining choices at El Cortez include The Flame Steakhouse, where steaks and seafood are served Wednesdays through Sundays, and Cafe Cortez, where comfort food favorites are served 24-hours a day.