Volumes have been set forth on this subject, and the bickering and face-offs about where the "hot" one armed bandits are positioned in the casino are still bubbling – over 60 years after slot games were first added to the gaming floor in gambling dens.
The quintessential rule is that the very best slot machine games were located just inside the entry of the casino; so that people passing by would see jackpot winners … be titillated to come into the casino … play. Our deduction is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Just about all of the mega casinos presently are mammoth complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any entrances or exits.
Another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be roused 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 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.
January 27th, 2017
Darius
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