Volumes have been set forth on this subject, and the bickering and discussion about where the "hot" slot games are located in the casino are still passionate – over 60 yrs after slot machine games were first placed in casinos.
The standard rule is that the best one armed bandits were put just inside the main entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would be able to see real jackpot winners and be enticed to come unto the gaming floor … play. Our belief is that this is not so anymore.
Just about all of the big name casinos today are grand complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot games close to any entrances.
Yet another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Interestingly though, 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 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 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.