Books have been written on this topic, and the disquiet and squabbling about where the "hot" slot machine games are placed in the casino are still intense – over sixty years after the slot machines were first placed in casinos.
The traditional rule is that the superior one armed bandits were put just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that fun seekers going by would be able to see jackpot winners and be convinced to come unto the gaming floor … play. Our inclination is that this is no longer the case.
The great majority of the large casinos these days are magnificent complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machine games close to any doors.
Another classic rule is that loose slots are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. However, 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 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 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot games.
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