Books have been said on this issue, and the contention and ruckus about where the "hot" slot machine games are installed in the casino are still taking place – more than sixty yrs after slot games were first placed in gambling houses.
The classic rule is that the more favourable slot games were located just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that potential players walking by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be tempted to come into the casino and play. Our reasoning is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Nearly all of the large casinos presently are titanic complexes … it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ one armed bandits in close proximity to any doors.
Yet another classic rule is that loose one armed bandits are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. Importantly though, 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 one armed bandits 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 machine games.
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