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Volumes have been set forth on this issue, and the bickering and arguments about where the "hot" slot games are placed in a casino are still bubbling – more than 60 years after slot games were first installed in the casinos.

The standard rule is that the most favorable slot games were positioned just inside the door of the casino; so that fun seekers passing by would see actual jackpot winners … be smitten to come into the casino … play. Our resolve is that this is no longer the case.

Just about all of the mega casinos today are monstrous complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slots close to any doorways.

Yet another traditional rule is that loose one armed bandits are located on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Importantly though, 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 slot machine 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 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 machines.