Volumes have been said on this subject, and the contention and disharmony about where the "hot" slots are placed in a casino are still intense – sixty years after one armed bandits were 1st installed in the casinos.
The standard rule is that the very best one armed bandits were located just inside the main foyer of the casino; so that folks passing by would be able to see jackpot winners … be enticed to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our position is that this is definitely no longer the case.
Almost all of the major casinos these days are monstrous complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slots close-by any of the doors.
Another traditional rule is that loose one armed bandits are located on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be influenced 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 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 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.