Volumes have been set forth on this topic, and the bickering and face-offs about where the "hot" slot machines are installed in a casino are still on-going – more than sixty years after the slot machines were 1st added to the gaming floor in the casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the most favorable slots were located just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that fun seekers walking by would see jackpot winners and be stimulated to come unto the gaming floor … play. Our belief is that this is not so anymore.
Just about all of the mega casinos these days are oversized complexes … it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machine games close to any entrances or exits.
An additional classic rule is that loose slot games are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be galvanized 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 the slot machines 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 philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.
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