10.31
Slot Machine Location
Volumes have been stated on this item, and the disquiet and face-offs about where the "hot" slot games are installed in a casino are still bubbling – over 60 yrs after slot machine games were first placed in gambling dens.
The quintessential rule is that the best slots were positioned just inside the door of the casino; so that folks going by would see actual jackpot winners … be challenged to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our feeling is that this is no longer the case.
Almost all of the mega casinos presently are titanic complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot games close to any doorways.
Another standard rule is that loose slot games are located on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be galvanized 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 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!
In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot games.
