02
June
Written by Kailey.
Posted in: Slots
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Volumes have been set forth on this issue, and the debates and discord about where the "hot" slot machine games are installed in the casino are still rampant – more than sixty years after the slot machines were first placed in the casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the superior slot machines were put just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would be able to see jackpot winners … be mesmerized enough to come inside … play. Our sneaking suspicion is that this is no longer the case.
Practically all of the large casinos nowadays are monstrous complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ one armed bandits in close proximity to any of the doors.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose slots are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. Notably though, 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 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 machines.
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