Archive for January, 2017

Slot Machine positioning

by Beckett on Saturday, January 14th, 2017

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Books have been written on this topic, and the disquiet and arguments about where the "hot" slot machine games are placed in the casino are still on-going – over sixty yrs after slots were 1st added to the gaming floor in gambling houses.

The standard rule is that the most favorable one armed bandits were located just inside the main door of the casino; so that people walking by would see jackpot winners … be influenced to come unto the gaming floor … play. Our theory is that this is definitely no longer the case.

Just about all of the large casinos today are giant complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot machine games close-by any of the doors.

An additional classic rule is that loose slot machine games are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be inspired to play. Nonetheless, 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 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 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!

Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.