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Books have been set forth on this item, and the contention and discussion about where the "hot" video slots are positioned in a casino are still happening – more than sixty years after the slots were first installed in the casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the most favorable slot games were installed just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that casino fanatics going by would see jackpot winners … be convinced to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our thought is that this is no longer the case.

The great majority of the large casinos presently are behemothic complexes and it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any doorways.

Another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be inspired to play. Interestingly though, 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!

These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machines.