Books have been written on this issue, and the bickering and feuds about where the "hot" slots are installed in the casino are still bubbling – sixty yrs after slots were 1st placed in gambling houses.
The traditional rule is that the more favourable one armed bandits were put just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would see actual jackpot winners and be smitten to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our position is that this is not so anymore.
Just about all of the mega casinos nowadays are oversized complexes … it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slot machine games in close proximity to any of the doors.
Another traditional rule is that loose slot machines are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Notably however, 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 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 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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slots.
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