Playing max bet will not yield much results. I played a lot of machines and they were all the same. The usual canned response of machines having certain elements of luck, bunch of bs. I spent 2k with little to no bonus rounds. So you cut smoking to improve the health and safety of others but now you allow people to sit next to one another with no social distancing. There was definitely not 6 foot distance.
During the course of my time spent there, I had multiple people come and sit next to me. Now that they cut smoking, all of the slot machines are turned on and chairs are at every machine.
You can also smoke in front of the hotel entrance. They have a tent out front that is not heated for smoking. Or all the people that didn't know, Mystic no longer allows smoking in the casino.