Volumes have been said on this item, and the contention and face-offs about where the "hot" one armed bandits are positioned in a casino are still taking place – over sixty years after slot games were first added to the gaming floor in gambling dens.
The traditional rule is that the better slot machines were installed just inside the entrance of the casino; so that fun seekers walking by would be able to see real jackpot winners and be intrigued enough to come into the casino … play. Our determination is that this is not so anymore.
Nearly all of the large casinos today are titanic complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any entrances.
Another classic rule is that loose slot machines are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Importantly 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 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machines.
