Honolulu is where Sam Boyd became intimately involved in the local, under-the-radar Hawaiian gambling scene-and this relationship would play a critical role in Boyd Gaming Group’s success decades later.
The story of how Las Vegas became the 9th Hawaiian Island.īill Boyd, chairman of Boyd Gaming Group in Las Vegas, shares his family’s intimate involvement in the gaming industry Bill Boyd's father, Sam Boyd (born in 1910), moved the family to Oahu when Bill was in first and second grade. Credit Thomas Wilmer Sam Boyd's name lives on in Las Vegas
