27
December
Written by Konner.
Posted in: Slots
Volumes have been said on this item, and the bickering and discord about where the "hot" slot machine games are positioned in a casino are still happening – more than sixty years after the slot machines were first added to the gaming floor in casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the best one armed bandits were located just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that potential players walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be influenced to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our inclination is that this is definitely no longer so.
Almost all of the big name casinos presently are humongous complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slots in close proximity to any entrances or exits.
An additional standard rule is that loose slot machine games are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Interestingly though, we find that this also is no longer a universal rule.
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 the slot machines 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machines.
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