• Slot Machine Location

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    Volumes have been said on this item, and the debates and discussion about where the "hot" slot machines are installed in a casino are still taking place – 60 years after the slot machines were 1st installed in gambling dens.

    The traditional rule is that the best slots were positioned just inside the door of the casino; so that everyone going by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be mesmerized enough to come unto the gaming floor … play. Our attitude is that this is definitely no longer true.

    Almost all of the major casinos today are enormous complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slots in close proximity to any doorways.

    Another standard rule is that loose slots are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Notably 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 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 philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.

     August 28th, 2019  Darius   No comments

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