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Books have been set forth on this matter, and the debates and face-offs about where the "hot" slot machine games are installed in the casino are still intense – over sixty yrs after slot games were first installed in casinos.
The classic rule is that the best one armed bandits were put just inside the main door of the casino; so that casino fanatics going by would be able to see jackpot winners … be convinced to come inside and play. Our attitude is that this is definitely no longer so.
Most of the mega casinos these days are oversized complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot games near any exits.
Yet another classic rule is that loose slot games are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. 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 philosophy about where to place the loose slots.
