Slot Machine positioning
Books have been written on this issue, and the bickering and face-offs about where the "hot" one armed bandits are positioned in a casino are still taking place – more than 60 years after slot machine games were first added to the gaming floor in the casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the most favorable slots were located just inside the door of the casino; so that potential players walking by would be able to see jackpot winners and be smitten to come inside and play. Our deduction is that this is definitely no longer the case.
The majority of the major casinos today are behemothic complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot games close to any exits.
An additional standard rule is that loose slot machine games are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be inspired to play. Notably though, 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 one armed bandits 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machines.
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