Volumes have been set forth on this item, and the bickering and arguments about where the "hot" slot machine games are located in a casino are still bubbling – more than 60 years after the slot machines were first placed in gambling houses.
The quintessential rule is that the superior slot machine games were put just inside the main door of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would see real jackpot winners and be possessed to come into the casino and play. Our philosophy is that this is definitely no longer true.
The majority of the big name casinos today are humongous complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close to any entrances.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose slot machines are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. Interestingly though, we find that this also isn’t 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 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!
In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slots.