Volumes have been stated on this topic, and the controversy and face-offs about where the "hot" video slots are located in the casino are still raging – over sixty years after slot games were first added to the gaming floor in the casinos.
The standard rule is that the best one armed bandits were installed just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that folks walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be stimulated to come into the casino and play. Our position is that this is no longer the case.
Many of the major casinos today are super-colossal complexes … it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ one armed bandits near to any exits.
Yet another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Importantly 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 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 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 machines.
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