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Books have been said on this matter, and the disquiet and discord about where the "hot" slot machines are placed in a casino are still taking place – over 60 years after the slots were 1st added to the gaming floor in gambling houses.

The classic rule is that the better slot games were positioned just inside the entrance of the casino; so that potential gamblers passing by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be stirred to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our frame of mind is that this is definitely no longer the case.

Just about all of the big name casinos today are super-colossal complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot games close to any entrances.

Yet another standard rule is that loose slot machine games are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Interestingly though, we find that this also isn’t 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 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 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!

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