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Books have been said on this matter, and the bickering and squabbling about where the "hot" one armed bandits are located in a casino are still intense - over sixty yrs after the slots were 1st placed in gambling dens.

The traditional rule is that the best slot games were installed just inside the main door of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would see real jackpot winners ... be attracted to come into the casino ... play. Our feeling is that this is no longer the case.

The great majority of the mega casinos today are grand complexes and it's no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the 'loose' slot machines close to any doorways.

Yet another standard rule is that loose slot games are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be inspired to play. Nonetheless, 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 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 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 perspective about where to place the loose slots.