Volumes have been written on this matter, and the bickering and feuds about where the "hot" one armed bandits are located in the casino are still bubbling – more than sixty years after slot games were 1st placed in gambling houses.
The classic rule is that the very best one armed bandits were placed just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that potential gamblers passing by would see real jackpot winners and be enticed to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our presumption is that this is not so anymore.
The great majority of the mega casinos today are giant complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot games near to any doors.
Yet another classic rule is that loose slot games are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. 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 the slots 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machines.
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