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Books have been said on this issue, and the disquiet and arguments about where the "hot" slot machines are located in a casino are still there – over 60 yrs after slot machine games were first placed in casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the most favorable slot machine games were put just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would see jackpot winners … be challenged to come unto the gaming floor … play. Our assessment is that this is no longer true.

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

An additional traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be galvanized 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 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!

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