Slot Machine Location
Posted in Slots on 10/13/2023 07:25 pm by Darnell
Volumes have been said on this item, and the disquiet and discord about where the "hot" slots are positioned in the casino are still ongoing – over sixty years after the slot machines were first placed in gambling dens.
The classic rule is that the best one armed bandits were put just inside the entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics going by would be able to see jackpot winners … be convinced to come into the casino … play. Our interpretation is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Most of the big name casinos presently are titanic complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machine games near to any doorways.
An additional traditional rule is that loose slot games are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Notably 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 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machines.