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 there – over 60 years after slot machine games were 1st placed in the casinos.
The standard rule is that the superior slots were installed just inside the main entry of the casino; so that potential gamblers walking by would see actual jackpot winners and be drawn to come into the casino … play. Our reckoning is that this is not so anymore.
Nearly all of the big name casinos presently are massive complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ one armed bandits near any entrances.
Another classic rule is that loose one armed bandits are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be inspired to play. Interestingly 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 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 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 philosophy about where to place the loose slots.