Books have been said on this matter, and the disquiet and discord about where the "hot" slot games are placed in a casino are still rampant – more than sixty yrs after the slot machines were 1st placed in gambling dens.
The quintessential rule is that the better slot machines were positioned just inside the main door of the casino; so that folks walking by would see real jackpot winners … be attracted to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our assurance is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Most of the major casinos presently are herculean complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ one armed bandits near any of the doors.
Yet another standard rule is that loose slot machines are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Notably though, 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 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 perspective about where to place the loose slots.
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