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Slot Machine positioning
Books have been set forth on this subject, and the conflict and face-offs about where the "hot" one armed bandits are located in a casino are still on-going – more than sixty yrs after slot games were first placed in gambling dens.
The standard rule is that the more favourable slots were located just inside the entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics passing by would be able to see real jackpot winners and be aroused to come into the casino … play. Our disposition is that this is no longer the case.
Just about all of the major casinos nowadays are massive complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close-by any doorways.
An additional traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. 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 slots 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!
These days, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.