Volumes have been set forth on this matter, and the bickering and feuds about where the "hot" slot games are installed in a casino are still intense – over sixty yrs after slots were 1st placed in casinos.
The quintessential rule is that the superior slot games were put just inside the main entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics passing by would be able to see real jackpot winners and be infatuated enough to come into the casino … play. Our thought is that this is no longer true.
Many of the large casinos presently are magnificent complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any exits.
Yet another standard rule is that loose slots are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Importantly 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 one armed bandits 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!
Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machines.