Volumes have been written on this matter, and the bickering and disharmony about where the "hot" slot games are positioned in the casino are still ongoing – sixty years after slots were first placed in casinos.
The classic rule is that the most favorable slots were put just inside the entry of the casino; so that persons passing by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be infatuated enough to come inside and play. Our position is that this is definitely no longer the case.
The majority of the mega casinos these days are behemothic complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machines in close proximity to any doorways.
Yet another standard rule is that loose slot games are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be roused 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 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slots.
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