Volumes have been set forth on this issue, and the disquiet and discord about where the "hot" one armed bandits are placed in the casino are still rampant – over 60 years after slot games were first placed in gambling dens.
The standard rule is that the better slot games were positioned just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that everyone passing by would see real jackpot winners and be convinced to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our thought is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Practically all of the big name casinos presently are titanic complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slots close-by any of the doors.
Another classic rule is that loose one armed bandits are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be roused 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 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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slots.
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