Books have been set forth on this matter, and the conflict and discussion about where the "hot" one armed bandits are installed in the casino are still raging – over sixty years after slot machine games were 1st placed in the casinos.
The traditional rule is that the very best one armed bandits were positioned just inside the main entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics going by would be able to see jackpot winners … be tempted to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our resolution is that this is definitely no longer true.
The majority of the large casinos presently are super-colossal complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slots close to any of the doors.
Another traditional rule is that loose slots are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. Importantly 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 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 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 perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.
