Volumes have been written on this topic, and the disquiet and discussion about where the "hot" one armed bandits are installed in the casino are still taking place – 60 years after slot machine games were 1st installed in the casinos.
The classic rule is that the most favorable slots were installed just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that potential players passing by would see real jackpot winners … be intrigued enough to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our estimation is that this is definitely no longer so.
Just about all of the mega casinos nowadays are titanic complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slots close to any doorways.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are located on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Notably 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 one armed bandits 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 philosophy about where to place the loose slot machines.
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