Slot Machine positioning
Tuesday, 6. August 2024
Volumes have been set forth on this subject, and the bickering and interchanges about where the "hot" one armed bandits are placed in a casino are still there – over sixty years after the slots were first placed in gambling houses.
The quintessential rule is that the better slot machine games were located just inside the entrance of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would see real jackpot winners and be enticed to come inside and play. Our reckoning is that this is no longer the case.
Nearly all of the large casinos nowadays are massive complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot machines in close proximity to any entrances or exits.
Yet another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are located on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Interestingly though, 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 slot machine 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