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Volumes have been set forth on this topic, and the disquiet and arguments about where the "hot" one armed bandits are installed in a casino are still raging – over sixty years after slots were first placed in casinos.

The classic rule is that the very best slot machines were positioned just inside the main entry of the casino; so that potential players going by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be enticed to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our viewpoint is that this is not so anymore.

Nearly all of the large casinos presently are jumbo complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machine games close to any of the doors.

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 encouraged to play. Notably however, we find that this also is not 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 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 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 perspective about where to place the loose slots.