Slot Machine Location
Volumes have been written on this issue, and the conflict and squabbling about where the "hot" slot games are installed in a casino are still raging – over sixty years after slot machines were 1st placed in casinos.
The classic rule is that the best slots were placed just inside the door of the casino; so that folks walking by would see jackpot winners … be stirred to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our opinion is that this is not so anymore.
The great majority of the major casinos these days are gigantic complexes and it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any entrances or exits.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose slot games are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Interestingly though, we find that this also is not 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 slot machines 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 perspective about where to place the loose slot machines.