Slot Machine Location
Volumes have been set forth on this issue, and the bickering and feuds about where the "hot" slot machine games are installed in a casino are still rampant – sixty years after slots were 1st installed in casinos.
The traditional rule is that the more favourable slot games were installed just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that people passing by would be able to see jackpot winners and be impressed enough to come into the casino and play. Our reckoning is that this is definitely no longer so.
Most of the mega casinos these days are behemothic complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ one armed bandits in close proximity to any entrances or exits.
Yet another classic rule is that loose slots are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Importantly however, we find that this also is no longer a universal rule.
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 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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slots.