Books have been set forth on this matter, and the debates and discord about where the "hot" slot games are located in a casino are still on-going – more than sixty years after the slots were first added to the gaming floor in gambling dens.
The standard rule is that the superior slot machine games were placed just inside the entrance of the casino; so that folks walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be convinced to come unto the gaming floor … play. Our frame of mind is that this is not so anymore.
Most of the big name casinos nowadays are gigantic complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machine games in close proximity to any exits.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose slots are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Interestingly though, 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 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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot games.
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