Boyd Gaming Corp. has donated more than $215,000 to nonprofits across the country through its annual Trees of Hope charity contest.
A total of 175 nonprofits in 10 states participated in the 2025 holiday contest, with participants decorating trees at Boyd Gaming properties across the country. Winners were selected through more than 100,000 votes from Boyd Gaming guests.
Since the launch of Trees of Hope in 2007, Boyd Gaming has donated nearly $2 million through the annual contest to nonprofit organizations across the country.
Causes that received money in Southern Nevada included Cure 4 The Kids of Aliante, American Vets of Cannery, Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada of Gold Coast, Heaven Can Wait Animal Society of Jokers Wild, Las Vegas Hawaiian Civic Club of California, Pawtastic Friends of Sam’s Town, Boys Town Rescue of Suncoast Orleans Nevada of Suncoast Orleans and Nevada.
Help for chip collectors
The Casino Collectibles Association has added a tool to its website to help casino chip collectors find chips to add to their collections.
The association is planning a free hour-long Zoom presentation at 18.00 on 20 January to explain how the ChipGuide My Collection function works.
The ChipGuide is the hobby’s primary casino chip resource, a free online catalog of more than 334,000 collectibles from 32,000 casinos worldwide.
The My Collection feature allows collectors to create multiple listings for their casino collectibles that are always available online. This saves collectors from inadvertently adding duplicates or passing on items they thought they already owned.
Collectors can then set up lists of chips they want to acquire or trade. Through a trade maker function, these lists are matched with other collector’s lists to facilitate exchanges. To protect collector privacy, only they can allow access to their lists.
Collectors who want to learn more and register for the seminar should go to https://themogh.org/mogh.php?p=seminars.
The seminar will be the first in a series on a variety of casino memorabilia and gaming history topics.
Horseshoe Baltimore casino, Caesars Ent. accused of violating the ADA
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit accusing Baltimore’s Horseshoe Casino, operated by Caesars Entertainment Inc., of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by firing a disabled employee and failing to provide necessary workplace accommodations.
According to the complaint, a table game dealer suffered a heart attack at work in April 2023, later underwent disability-related surgery and sought housing upon his return. The EEOC claims the casino rejected those requests, refused to participate in the statutory “interactive process” and told the dealer he could only return without medical restrictions.
The employee was ultimately terminated and was not rehired.
Debra Lawrence, regional attorney for the EEOC, said employers cannot prevent workers from returning after medical leave because of disability-related limitations and must work to find reasonable accommodations.
“Employers have an obligation to engage in an interactive process to identify and provide reasonable accommodations,” Lawrence said in a news release. “The Commission is committed to upholding the rights secured by the ADA and addressing unlawful retaliation and interference with those rights.”
Macao results
Macau’s casinos generated US$30.8 billion (US) in gross gaming revenue in 2025, surpassing pre-pandemic 2019 for the first time, Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau announced last week.
The total fell short of the record $45 billion (US) achieved in 2013.
The total in 2025 was 9.1 percent higher than the 2024 level.
A strong December with revenue of $2.6 billion (US), up 14.8 percent from last year, capped the year in which Macao saw record visits.
Casino revenue increased 11 out of 12 months in 2025.
Three Las Vegas-based companies operate in Macau.
