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Books have been written on this item, and the controversy and interchanges about where the "hot" video slots are placed in the casino are still there – more than 60 yrs after slot games were first added to the gaming floor in the casinos.

The classic rule is that the more favourable slot machine games were put just inside the entry of the casino; so that fun seekers going by would see jackpot winners … be smitten to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our point of view is that this is not so anymore.

The great majority of the large casinos presently are colossal complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot games close to any of the doors.

Yet another classic rule is that loose slot machines are put on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons 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 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 games.