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Volumes have been said on this matter, and the conflict and arguments about where the "hot" slot machine games are installed in the casino are still intense – over 60 years after slot machines were first placed in gambling houses.

The standard rule is that the very best slot games were placed just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that fun seekers passing by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be smitten to come inside … play. Our attitude is that this is not so anymore.

Nearly all of the big name casinos these days are super-colossal complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ one armed bandits near to any doors.

Another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. Notably though, 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!

Today, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.