Slot Machine positioning
Saturday, 29. December 2018
Books have been stated on this matter, and the conflict and discourse about where the "hot" video slots are placed in the casino are still on-going – over sixty years after slot games were first added to the gaming floor in the casinos.
The classic rule is that the better slot machine games were positioned just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that persons passing by would be able to see jackpot winners … be smitten to come inside … play. Our position is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Almost all of the large casinos today are humongous complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slots close-by any doors.
Another classic rule is that loose slot machines are put on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Importantly 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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.
Posted in Slots by Samantha