Slot Machine positioning
Books have been said on this item, and the disquiet and discourse about where the "hot" slot machine games are located in the casino are still happening – 60 years after slot machines were first placed in casinos.
The traditional rule is that the superior slot games were put just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would be able to see real jackpot winners and be impressed enough to come into the casino and play. Our philosophy is that this is no longer true.
Almost all of the mega casinos presently are oversized complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machines close to any doors.
Another traditional rule is that loose one armed bandits are located on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. However, 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 machine 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 one armed bandits.
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