Volumes have been set forth on this issue, and the controversy and discourse about where the "hot" slot machines are placed in a casino are still happening – more than sixty years after slot machine games were first added to the gaming floor in casinos.
The traditional rule is that the best slot games were installed just inside the entrance of the casino; so that potential gamblers passing by would be able to see jackpot winners and be titillated to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our position is that this is not so anymore.
Almost all of the big name casinos today are enormous complexes … it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot machines near to any entrances.
Yet another traditional rule is that loose one armed bandits are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. However, we find that this also is no longer a universal rule.
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 slot machines 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!
Today, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slots.