Slot Machine Location
Posted in Slots on 01/25/2018 05:25 pm by Darnell
Books have been stated on this item, and the bickering and disharmony about where the "hot" one armed bandits are located in a casino are still raging – sixty years after the slots were 1st added to the gaming floor in the casinos.
The standard rule is that the superior slot machines were put just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that potential gamblers walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be attracted to come inside … play. Our standpoint is that this is definitely no longer so.
Just about all of the big name casinos these days are humongous complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot games close-by any of the doors.
An additional traditional rule is that loose slots are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be inspired 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.