Volumes have been stated on this issue, and the disquiet and squabbling about where the "hot" slot machines are located in the casino are still intense – more than sixty years after slot machines were first added to the gaming floor in casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the most favorable slot machine games were positioned just inside the door of the casino; so that potential players walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be aroused to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our philosophy is that this is definitely no longer so.
The majority of the mega casinos presently are immense complexes and it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slots in close proximity to any entrances.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose one armed bandits are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Notably though, we find that this also is not 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 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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.
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