Slot Machine positioning
Posted in Slots on 03/08/2017 11:25 pm by DarnellBooks have been written on this matter, and the controversy and face-offs about where the "hot" video slots are positioned in a casino are still happening – more than sixty yrs after one armed bandits were 1st added to the gaming floor in casinos.
The classic rule is that the most favorable slot machine games were positioned just inside the entrance of the casino; so that fun seekers walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be baited to come into the casino … play. Our disposition is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Just about all of the large casinos today are mammoth complexes and it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close to any doorways.
Another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Nonetheless, 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 perspective about where to place the loose slot machine games.