Slot Machine Location
by Lucy on Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
Volumes have been set forth on this subject, and the controversy and disagreement about where the "hot" slot games are placed in a casino are still raging – over sixty yrs after slot machine games were first added to the gaming floor in gambling houses.
The classic rule is that the better slot machine games were put just inside the main door of the casino; so that people passing by would see real jackpot winners … be stimulated to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our presumption is that this is definitely no longer so.
Many of the big name casinos these days are oversized complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slots close-by any doorways.
An additional standard rule is that loose slot machine games are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Importantly however, 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 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 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 perspective about where to place the loose slot games.
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