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Volumes have been written on this issue, and the debates and interchanges about where the "hot" slots are located in a casino are still rampant - more than 60 years after the slots were 1st added to the gaming floor in casinos.

The traditional rule is that the more favourable slots were placed just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that fun seekers going by would be able to see jackpot winners ... be keen enough to come unto the gambling floor ... play. Our assessment is that this is definitely no longer the case.

The great majority of the large casinos nowadays are monstrous complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the 'loose' slots close to any exits.

Yet another classic rule is that loose one armed bandits are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. However, 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 one armed bandits 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!

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