Volumes have been set forth on this issue, and the conflict and feuds about where the "hot" slot games are placed in a casino are still raging – over sixty years after the slots were 1st placed in gambling houses.
The quintessential rule is that the superior one armed bandits were put just inside the entry of the casino; so that persons going by would be able to see jackpot winners … be mesmerized enough to come inside … play. Our persuasion is that this is definitely no longer so.
Just about all of the mega casinos presently are jumbo complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot machine games in close proximity to any doors.
An additional classic rule is that loose slot machine games are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. Importantly however, 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 one armed bandits 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 one armed bandits.