Books have been set forth on this topic, and the debates and discord about where the "hot" slot machine games are located in the casino are still rampant – 60 yrs after slot games were 1st placed in the casinos.
The traditional rule is that the best slot machines were put just inside the main entry of the casino; so that potential gamblers walking by would be able to see jackpot winners and be challenged to come inside and play. Our sneaking suspicion is that this is no longer the case.
The great majority of the mega casinos these days are behemothic complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot games near to any entrances.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose slots are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons 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 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 one armed bandits.
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