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Volumes have been written on this issue, and the disquiet and discord about where the "hot" one armed bandits are installed in a casino are still ongoing – 60 yrs after slots were 1st placed in the casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the most favorable slot machine games were installed just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that potential players walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be challenged to come into the casino and play. Our view is that this is no longer true.

Almost all of the big name casinos nowadays are enormous complexes and it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slots close to any of the doors.

Yet another traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are located on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Interestingly 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!

These days, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machine games.