Slots StrategyMy Slots Strategy Blog

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

Volumes have been written on this subject, and the controversy and discord about where the "hot" video slots are placed in the casino are still intense – more than sixty yrs after the slot machines were first placed in gambling dens.

The standard rule is that the most favorable slot games were located just inside the main foyer of the casino; so that casino fanatics passing by would be able to see jackpot winners … be influenced to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our sneaking suspicion is that this is not so anymore.

Most of the large casinos today are colossal complexes … it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot games close to any doors.

Another standard rule is that loose slot games are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Importantly though, 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 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 slots.