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Volumes have been stated on this topic, and the disquiet and discourse about where the "hot" one armed bandits are positioned in the casino are still rampant – more than 60 yrs after slot games were first added to the gaming floor in gambling houses.

The classic rule is that the most favorable slots were positioned just inside the main door of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be infatuated enough to come inside and play. Our resolve is that this is definitely no longer true.

Practically all of the large casinos these days are giant complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot games close to any doorways.

An additional standard rule is that loose slot machine games are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. Importantly 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 slot games 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 slot games.