Volumes have been written on this topic, and the conflict and face-offs about where the "hot" slot games are located in the casino are still there – 60 yrs after slot machine games were first placed in the casinos.
The traditional rule is that the best slot machine games were installed just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that casino fanatics going by would see real jackpot winners … be keen enough to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our conclusion is that this is no longer true.
Nearly all of the major casinos today are titanic complexes and it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot machines close-by any of the doors.
An additional traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be encouraged 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 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 philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.
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