Slot Machine positioning
by Beckett on Saturday, January 27th, 2024
Volumes have been set forth on this subject, and the bickering and face-offs about where the "hot" slot machine games are positioned in the casino are still on-going – more than 60 years after the slot machines were first placed in casinos.
The standard rule is that the more favourable slot games were positioned just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that everyone going by would see real jackpot winners … be titillated to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our sneaking suspicion is that this is no longer true.
Nearly all of the mega casinos today are grand complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ one armed bandits near any entrances.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose slots are located on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Notably 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 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 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 slot machine games.
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