Books have been said on this matter, and the debates and interchanges about where the "hot" slot machine games are installed in a casino are still ongoing – over 60 yrs after the slots were first added to the gaming floor in casinos.
The traditional rule is that the more favourable slots were positioned just inside the main foyer of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would be able to see real jackpot winners and be stimulated to come into the casino … play. Our deduction is that this is definitely no longer the case.
The majority of the large casinos presently are giant complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slot machines near to any doors.
Another standard rule is that loose slot machine games are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Importantly however, we find that this also isn’t 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 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 one armed bandits.
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