Books have been set forth on this subject, and the bickering and arguments about where the "hot" video slots are placed in the casino are still rampant – more than 60 years after slot machine games were first added to the gaming floor in gambling houses.
The quintessential rule is that the more favourable slot games were placed just inside the entrance of the casino; so that persons walking by would see real jackpot winners and be stirred to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our assessment is that this is definitely no longer so.
Nearly all of the major casinos today are immense complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot machine games close to any entrances or exits.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose slots are located on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Importantly 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 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machines.
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