Slot Machine Location
Friday, 8. December 2017
Volumes have been said on this topic, and the controversy and discussion about where the "hot" slot games are located in a casino are still bubbling – more than sixty yrs after the slots were first added to the gaming floor in gambling houses.
The traditional rule is that the most favorable slot machines were put just inside the door of the casino; so that persons going by would see real jackpot winners … be enticed to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our inference is that this is no longer the case.
Many of the big name casinos nowadays are massive complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot games in close proximity to any entrances.
An additional traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Notably though, we find that this also is not 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machine games.
Posted in Slots by Samantha