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Books have been written on this issue, and the debates and discussion about where the "hot" one armed bandits are positioned in a casino are still on-going – over sixty yrs after the slots were 1st placed in gambling houses.

The classic rule is that the superior slot machine games were positioned just inside the entry of the casino; so that potential players walking by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be tempted to come inside … play. Our inclination is that this is definitely no longer true.

The majority of the large casinos nowadays are enormous complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot games close-by any of the doors.

Another standard rule is that loose slot games are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Notably however, 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 the slot machines 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!

In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slots.