Volumes have been stated on this topic, and the disquiet and feuds about where the "hot" slot machine games are located in the casino are still rampant – more than sixty yrs after one armed bandits were first placed in casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the more favourable slot machine games were placed just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that fun seekers going by would be able to see jackpot winners and be drawn to come into the casino … play. Our conviction is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Just about all of the big name casinos these days are giant complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ one armed bandits in close proximity to any of the doors.
An additional traditional rule is that loose slot machines are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Notably however, 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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