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Slot Machine positioning
Volumes have been set forth on this matter, and the debates and discord about where the "hot" video slots are installed in the casino are still ongoing – more than sixty years after one armed bandits were 1st placed in casinos.
The standard rule is that the more favourable slot machines were placed just inside the door of the casino; so that individuals walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be challenged to come into the casino and play. Our presumption is that this is not so anymore.
Many of the large casinos these days are super-colossal complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close-by any of the doors.
Yet another classic rule is that loose slot machine games are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Nonetheless, 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 slot machine games 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.