Slot Machine positioning
Posted in Slots on 01/30/2023 02:25 pm by Darnell
Volumes have been written on this issue, and the disquiet and discord about where the "hot" slot games are placed in a casino are still ongoing – more than sixty years after the slots were first placed in casinos.
The standard rule is that the most favorable slots were positioned just inside the main entry of the casino; so that everyone walking by would see jackpot winners … be titillated to come into the casino and play. Our slant is that this is definitely no longer true.
Nearly all of the large casinos nowadays are magnificent complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slots close to any doorways.
Another standard rule is that loose slots are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. Interestingly though, 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.