Slot Machine Location
Volumes have been set forth on this matter, and the bickering and disharmony about where the "hot" slot games are placed in a casino are still there – over sixty years after slot machines were first added to the gaming floor in gambling dens.
The standard rule is that the more favourable slot games were installed just inside the main door of the casino; so that folks walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be infatuated enough to come inside and play. Our estimation is that this is no longer the case.
The great majority of the large casinos presently are enormous complexes … it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any doorways.
Yet another classic rule is that loose slot machines are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Notably however, 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 the 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 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!
In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.
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