Feb 272016
Volumes have been set forth on this issue, and the contention and face-offs about where the "hot" one armed bandits are placed in a casino are still rampant – over 60 years after slots were 1st placed in gambling dens.
The traditional rule is that the best one armed bandits were installed just inside the main door of the casino; so that potential players walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be infatuated enough to come inside and play. Our finding is that this is definitely no longer true.
Nearly all of the mega casinos today are jumbo complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slots near to any doorways.
An additional standard rule is that loose slots are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be inspired 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 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 machines.
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