Books have been set forth on this matter, and the bickering and discussion about where the "hot" slot games are located in a casino are still intense – over 60 yrs after the slots were first installed in gambling dens.
The traditional rule is that the better one armed bandits were positioned just inside the main door of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would see real jackpot winners … be challenged to come inside … play. Our reckoning is that this is not so anymore.
Just about all of the large casinos these days are giant complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slot machine games close-by any doorways.
Another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Notably 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 the 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machine games.
