Slot Machine positioning

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Books have been set forth on this matter, and the contention and disharmony about where the "hot" slot machines are located in a casino are still on-going – sixty years after slot games were 1st placed in casinos.

The classic rule is that the very best one armed bandits were put just inside the entrance of the casino; so that persons going by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be influenced to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our theorem is that this is definitely no longer so.

The great majority of the mega casinos presently are jumbo complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot games in close proximity to any entrances.

An additional standard rule is that loose slot machine games are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. Importantly 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!

These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.

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