Books have been written on this topic, and the bickering and ruckus about where the "hot" one armed bandits are positioned in the casino are still on-going – more than 60 years after slot machine games were 1st placed in casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the most favorable one armed bandits were positioned just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that potential gamblers walking by would see real jackpot winners … be tempted to come into the casino and play. Our theorem is that this is definitely no longer so.
Many of the large casinos presently are colossal complexes … it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close-by any entrances or exits.
Yet another classic rule is that loose slot machine games are located on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Notably 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 slot machine games 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 perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.
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