Slot Machine Location
Tuesday, 8. March 2016
Volumes have been stated on this issue, and the debates and interchanges about where the "hot" video slots are located in the casino are still raging – 60 yrs after slot games were first added to the gaming floor in the casinos.
The traditional rule is that the better slot games were located just inside the entrance of the casino; so that fun seekers going by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be drawn to come into the casino and play. Our inclination is that this is definitely no longer true.
Nearly all of the large casinos today are giant complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any doors.
Another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are put on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Notably though, we find that this also isn’t a universal rule any more.
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 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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slots.
Posted in Slots by Samantha