Slot Machine positioning
Posted in Slots on 08/05/2024 09:25 am by Darnell
Books have been written on this subject, and the bickering and face-offs about where the "hot" slot games are located in the casino are still happening – over sixty years after the slots were first placed in casinos.
The standard rule is that the best one armed bandits were positioned just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that individuals passing by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be drawn to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our opinion is that this is definitely no longer true.
Nearly all of the mega casinos today are enormous complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close to any doorways.
An additional classic rule is that loose slots are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. Notably however, 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 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 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.