Books have been said on this subject, and the controversy and face-offs about where the "hot" slot machine games are placed in the casino are still rampant – sixty yrs after slot games were 1st added to the gaming floor in casinos.
The standard rule is that the more favourable slots were located just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that persons passing by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be smitten to come into the casino … play. Our observation is that this is not so anymore.
Most of the large casinos presently are titanic complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machines in close proximity to any doorways.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose slots are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Importantly however, 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.
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