Slot Machine positioning
Books have been said on this issue, and the bickering and discord about where the "hot" slots are installed in a casino are still raging – sixty years after the slots were first added to the gaming floor in the casinos.
The classic rule is that the very best slots were placed just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that everyone passing by would be able to see real jackpot winners and be tempted to come into the casino … play. Our speculation is that this is definitely no longer so.
Many of the large casinos these days are enormous complexes … it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot games close to any entrances.
Yet another classic rule is that loose slots are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. However, 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 very 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 slot machines.
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