Slot Machine Location
Volumes have been said on this topic, and the controversy and discord about where the "hot" slots are positioned in the casino are still raging – more than sixty years after slot machine games were 1st installed in the casinos.
The traditional rule is that the more favourable slot machines were installed just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be mesmerized enough to come into the casino and play. Our theorem is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Most of the large casinos presently are massive complexes … it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot machines near to any exits.
Another classic rule is that loose slot machines are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Interestingly though, we find that this also isn’t a universal rule any more.
What casinos found over the years is that people walking down the busy aisles were frequently on the way to somewhere else. If they played slot games at all, they would simply put in their loose change because they happened to be walking by. Win or lose, they would very often not stop to keep playing. And the very last thing a casino wants is for someone to win a jackpot by playing only a few coins and then not stay to put it all back in!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slots.
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