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Volumes have been set forth on this topic, and the debates and interchanges about where the "hot" slot games are located in the casino are still intense - 60 years after slot machines were 1st installed in casinos.

The traditional rule is that the superior slot games were located just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that fun seekers walking by would see jackpot winners ... be baited to come inside ... play. Our disposition is that this is no longer true.

Nearly all of the large casinos nowadays are oversized complexes and it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the 'loose' one armed bandits near any entrances.

Another standard rule is that loose slots are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Importantly 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!

Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.