Boyd Gaming Prices 16.5M Share Offering at $12.00/Share

Boyd Gaming Corporation

(the "Company") today announced that it has priced a public offering of 16,500,000 shares of its common stock at $12.00 per share. In connection with this offering, the Company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,475,000 shares of common stock. Total gross proceeds from the offerings will be approximately $198,000,000, exclusive of any proceeds attributable to the underwriters' possible exercise of their option to purchase additional securities. The closing of the public offering is expected to occur on or about August 7, 2013, subject to customary closing conditions. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to redeem a portion of its 7.125% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016 and for general corporate purposes.  Deutsche Bank Securities and J.P. Morgan are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. A registration statement relating to these securities was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 3, 2012. This offering is being made by the Company only by means of a written prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming part of the effective registration statement. Copies of the prospectus