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Volumes have been stated on this matter, and the bickering and disharmony about where the "hot" slot games are placed in a casino are still taking place – over sixty years after the slot machines were 1st added to the gaming floor in gambling dens.
The traditional rule is that the superior slot games were placed just inside the main entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would be able to see jackpot winners … be influenced to come into the casino … play. Our view is that this is definitely no longer so.
Almost all of the large casinos presently are mammoth complexes and it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machine games near to any of the doors.
Another classic rule is that loose slot games are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be galvanized 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slots.
