Volumes have been written on this item, and the bickering and disharmony about where the "hot" video slots are installed in a casino are still intense – over 60 yrs after slots were 1st added to the gaming floor in casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the more favourable slot machine games were put just inside the main entry of the casino; so that individuals passing by would be able to see jackpot winners … be influenced to come into the casino and play. Our interpretation is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Many of the major casinos presently are jumbo complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machine games in close proximity to any entrances.
Another traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Notably 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 the 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machines.
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