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October
Written by Julissa.
Posted in: Slots
Books have been said on this topic, and the disquiet and feuds about where the "hot" video slots are positioned in a casino are still raging – sixty yrs after one armed bandits were 1st placed in casinos.
The standard rule is that the very best slots were installed just inside the main entry of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be baited to come inside … play. Our reckoning is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Just about all of the large casinos nowadays are giant complexes … it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close-by any of the doors.
An additional standard rule is that loose slot machine games are located on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Notably 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 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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machines.
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