Slot Machine positioning
Books have been stated on this topic, and the bickering and disharmony about where the "hot" video slots are placed in a casino are still taking place – over 60 years after slot games were 1st placed in gambling houses.
The classic rule is that the more favourable slot machines were placed just inside the entry of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would see actual jackpot winners and be drawn to come into the casino and play. Our point of view is that this is definitely no longer true.
The great majority of the major casinos these days are super-colossal complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slots close to any of the doors.
An additional standard rule is that loose slot games are located on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Nonetheless, 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 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 machines.
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