Slot Machine positioning
Thursday, 15. December 2016
Books have been set forth on this topic, and the contention and ruckus about where the "hot" slots are placed in a casino are still passionate – more than sixty yrs after the slots were first added to the gaming floor in gambling dens.
The quintessential rule is that the best one armed bandits were put just inside the main entry of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would see jackpot winners and be impressed enough to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our slant is that this is definitely no longer true.
The great majority of the big name casinos presently are humongous complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machine games close to any exits.
Another standard rule is that loose slot games are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. However, 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 slot games 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 machine games.
Posted in Slots by Samantha