Slot Machine positioning
Volumes have been set forth on this item, and the debates and interchanges about where the "hot" one armed bandits are positioned in the casino are still on-going – sixty years after slots were first added to the gaming floor in gambling houses.
The traditional rule is that the most favorable slot games were positioned just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that casino fanatics passing by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be mesmerized enough to come inside and play. Our attitude is that this is no longer the case.
Just about all of the big name casinos these days are gigantic complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close to any of the doors.
Another standard rule is that loose slots are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. However, 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 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machines.
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