Volumes have been written on this item, and the controversy and discourse about where the "hot" slots are installed in the casino are still intense – more than sixty years after slots were first added to the gaming floor in the casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the better slot machines were located just inside the door of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be convinced to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our viewpoint is that this is definitely no longer true.
Just about all of the large casinos presently are huge complexes … it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slots near to any doorways.
Yet another standard rule is that loose slots are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. Importantly however, 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 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 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 one armed bandits.