Slot Placements
Written July 8, 2008 by Jack Jones
There are a few readers out there who have been asking us about slot placements, so we figured we would put this one to rest. They think that machines are looser close to change cages and ATM machines in but there is difference of opinion on machines next to tables. Some say they are loose so table players will hear wins and be enticed to get off tables others said they are tighter because they know table players will drop in coins as they come and go from tables.
However, we think the machine placement advice is outdated. It is true that every slot director will have his or her own slot floor philosophy, today’s slot directors order roughly the same payback percentage for each of their machines in a particular denomination.
Slot directors may have ordered different percentages and played placement games when slots weren’t as entertaining as they are today and when they had only a few hundred slots to manage. Now that they have a few thousand slots to deal with, they don’t have the time to micromanage them.
