Volumes have been said on this item, and the disquiet and feuds about where the "hot" slot games are positioned in the casino are still taking place – sixty years after slots were 1st placed in gambling dens.
The classic rule is that the more favourable one armed bandits were put just inside the main entry of the casino; so that potential gamblers walking by would see actual jackpot winners and be mesmerized enough to come inside and play. Our sentiment is that this is no longer the case.
Just about all of the major casinos today are gigantic complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machine games close-by any of the doors.
An additional classic rule is that loose slot machines are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Nonetheless, 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 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 perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.