Slot Machine positioning
Books have been said on this topic, and the disquiet and discord about where the "hot" one armed bandits are installed in the casino are still raging – sixty yrs after slot games were first installed in the casinos.
The standard rule is that the very best one armed bandits were positioned just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that folks passing by would see real jackpot winners … be challenged to come into the casino and play. Our reckoning is that this is not so anymore.
Practically all of the mega casinos presently are grand complexes … it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slots near any entrances or exits.
Another standard rule is that loose slot games are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Importantly though, 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 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 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.