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Books have been set forth on this matter, and the debates and disharmony about where the "hot" video slots are placed in the casino are still intense – over sixty yrs after slot games were first placed in casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the best slot machines were located just inside the door of the casino; so that people passing by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be enticed to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our reasoning is that this is definitely no longer so.

Just about all of the major casinos today are grand complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ one armed bandits in close proximity to any doorways.

Yet another standard rule is that loose slot machine games are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be inspired to play. Notably however, we find that this also isn’t 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 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!

In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.