Slot Machine positioning
by Beckett on Friday, February 22nd, 2019
Volumes have been written on this topic, and the debates and feuds about where the "hot" slot machine games are placed in a casino are still bubbling – sixty yrs after the slot machines were 1st installed in gambling houses.
The quintessential rule is that the best slot games were located just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that people walking by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be infatuated enough to come inside and play. Our feeling is that this is definitely no longer so.
Just about all of the major casinos nowadays are mammoth complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ one armed bandits in close proximity to any doors.
An additional classic rule is that loose slot games are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be energized 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 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!
In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.
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