Books have been said on this issue, and the bickering and squabbling about where the "hot" slot games are installed in a casino are still there – more than sixty yrs after slot machine games were 1st placed in gambling dens.
The quintessential rule is that the more favourable slots were put just inside the main door of the casino; so that people walking by would see real jackpot winners … be smitten to come inside … play. Our conviction is that this is not so anymore.
The majority of the large casinos presently are monstrous complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ one armed bandits in close proximity to any of the doors.
Another classic rule is that loose slot machines are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Nonetheless, 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 the slot machines 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.
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