15 May 19

Volumes have been stated on this matter, and the contention and squabbling about where the "hot" video slots are located in the casino are still on-going – sixty yrs after slot games were first added to the gaming floor in the casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the best slot games were put just inside the door of the casino; so that potential players walking by would be able to see jackpot winners … be stimulated to come inside … play. Our frame of mind is that this is definitely no longer so.

Many of the big name casinos today are grand complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot games close to any doorways.

Yet another standard rule is that loose slots are put on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. Nonetheless, we find that this also isn’t 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 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 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 slots.


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