Volumes have been written on this topic, and the disquiet and arguments about where the "hot" one armed bandits are placed in a casino are still bubbling – 60 years after slot machines were first placed in gambling houses.
The quintessential rule is that the best one armed bandits were placed just inside the main door of the casino; so that people passing by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be enticed to come inside … play. Our inclination is that this is no longer the case.
Practically all of the major casinos today are jumbo complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close to any entrances.
An additional traditional rule is that loose one armed bandits are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Notably though, 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 slot machine 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot games.
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