Books have been said on this matter, and the debates and discord about where the "hot" slot games are positioned in the casino are still happening – more than sixty years after slots were first installed in the casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the most favorable slot machine games were positioned just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that people passing by would see real jackpot winners … be inspired to come inside and play. Our speculation is that this is definitely no longer the case.
The great majority of the big name casinos today are magnificent complexes and it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any doorways.
An additional standard rule is that loose slot machine games are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be inspired 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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.
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