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Volumes have been said on this matter, and the bickering and disharmony about where the "hot" video slots are placed in a casino are still rampant – 60 years after the slot machines were 1st placed in gambling houses.

The traditional rule is that the most favorable one armed bandits were positioned just inside the main foyer of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would see jackpot winners and be convinced to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our perspective is that this is no longer true.

The great majority of the major casinos these days are jumbo complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot machine games in close proximity to any doorways.

An additional standard 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 encouraged to play. Importantly though, 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 the slot machines 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!

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