Slot Machine Location
Volumes have been said on this subject, and the bickering and ruckus about where the "hot" slot machine games are positioned in a casino are still there – sixty years after slots were 1st placed in gambling houses.
The quintessential rule is that the superior slot machines were placed just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that folks going by would see jackpot winners and be enticed to come into the casino and play. Our inclination is that this is definitely no longer so.
Most of the major casinos presently are behemothic complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot machines close-by any exits.
Yet another classic rule is that loose one armed bandits are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. Interestingly though, we find that this also is not 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 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 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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