Slot Machine Location
Volumes have been set forth on this topic, and the debates and face-offs about where the "hot" one armed bandits are placed in the casino are still raging – more than 60 years after slot games were first installed in gambling houses.
The traditional rule is that the superior slot machine games were put just inside the main entry of the casino; so that individuals walking by would see real jackpot winners … be impressed enough to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our sneaking suspicion is that this is no longer the case.
Just about all of the big name casinos presently are magnificent complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slot machine games close-by any exits.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose one armed bandits are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Nonetheless, 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 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 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 perspective about where to place the loose slot games.
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