Slot Machine Location
Books have been written on this issue, and the disquiet and arguments about where the "hot" one armed bandits are placed in the casino are still taking place – more than sixty yrs after slot games were first added to the gaming floor in the casinos.
The traditional rule is that the better one armed bandits were positioned just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that folks passing by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be influenced to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our theorem is that this is definitely no longer so.
Practically all of the large casinos today are huge complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slots in close proximity to any entrances.
An additional standard rule is that loose slot machines are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be motivated 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 slot machines 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!
In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machines.
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