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Volumes have been written on this matter, and the disquiet and squabbling about where the "hot" slot machine games are placed in the casino are still taking place – over sixty years after slot games were first placed in gambling houses.

The quintessential rule is that the better slot games were installed just inside the door of the casino; so that folks going by would see actual jackpot winners … be aroused to come unto the gaming floor … play. Our reckoning is that this is not so anymore.

Just about all of the mega casinos today are humongous complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slots near to any of the doors.

An additional 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 inspired 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 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!

Today, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot games.