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Volumes have been written on this subject, and the conflict and discord about where the "hot" slot machine games are positioned in the casino are still on-going – over sixty years after slot games were 1st placed in gambling houses.

The standard rule is that the best slots were located just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that fun seekers passing by would be able to see jackpot winners … be possessed to come into the casino and play. Our feeling is that this is not so anymore.

Most of the big name casinos presently are monstrous complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slots near any of the doors.

Another classic rule is that loose one armed bandits are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Nonetheless, 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 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!

In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot games.