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June
Written by Blake.
Posted in: Slots
Volumes have been set forth on this topic, and the debates and disagreement about where the "hot" one armed bandits are installed in the casino are still taking place – more than 60 years after slot machine games were first placed in gambling houses.
The classic rule is that the superior slot machine games were put just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that potential gamblers passing by would see actual jackpot winners … be impressed enough to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our slant is that this is not so anymore.
Nearly all of the large casinos presently are oversized complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machines near any exits.
Yet another classic rule is that loose slots are located on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons 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 slot games 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot games.
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