Books have been stated on this item, and the bickering and face-offs about where the "hot" slots are positioned in the casino are still on-going – sixty years after the slot machines were first added to the gaming floor in casinos.
The classic rule is that the most favorable one armed bandits were put just inside the main door of the casino; so that everyone going by would be able to see jackpot winners … be enticed to come into the casino and play. Our leaning is that this is not so anymore.
Almost all of the big name casinos today are gigantic complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ one armed bandits near any entrances or exits.
Yet another classic rule is that loose one armed bandits are located on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be galvanized 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 the 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.
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