Books have been stated on this issue, and the disquiet and disharmony about where the "hot" video slots are placed in a casino are still bubbling – sixty years after slot games were 1st placed in gambling houses.
The quintessential rule is that the superior slot machine games were installed just inside the door of the casino; so that fun seekers passing by would see jackpot winners and be drawn to come into the casino … play. Our theorem is that this is not so anymore.
Almost all of the large casinos presently are super-colossal complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any entrances.
Another classic rule is that loose slot machines are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Importantly though, we find that this also is no longer a universal rule.
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 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machines.
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