Slot Machine positioning
Volumes have been set forth on this topic, and the disquiet and feuds about where the "hot" one armed bandits are installed in a casino are still taking place – over sixty yrs after the slot machines were first installed in the casinos.
The traditional rule is that the more favourable slot machines were positioned just inside the main door of the casino; so that fun seekers walking by would be able to see jackpot winners and be influenced to come into the casino … play. Our estimation is that this is definitely no longer so.
Most of the large casinos presently are colossal complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any of the doors.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose slot games are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be roused 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 the slots 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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machine games.
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