Volumes have been set forth on this subject, and the bickering and discourse about where the "hot" slots are placed in a casino are still taking place – more than 60 years after slots were first installed in gambling houses.
The traditional rule is that the superior slots were put just inside the main entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would see real jackpot winners and be captivated to come into the casino and play. Our slant is that this is definitely no longer so.
Practically all of the major casinos today are enormous complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machines near to any of the doors.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are located on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be energized 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 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 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 one armed bandits.
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