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Volumes have been written on this subject, and the disquiet and discourse about where the "hot" slot machine games are positioned in a casino are still bubbling – sixty yrs after the slots were 1st installed in gambling dens.

The standard rule is that the better slot machine games were put just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that fun seekers going by would see jackpot winners … be aroused to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our sneaking suspicion is that this is definitely no longer so.

Nearly all of the large casinos presently are magnificent complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machines close to any doorways.

Another classic rule is that loose slots are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. 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 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 perspective about where to place the loose slot machine games.