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Volumes have been said on this topic, and the disquiet and disagreement about where the "hot" video slots are placed in the casino are still taking place – over sixty years after the slot machines were 1st placed in gambling houses.

The quintessential rule is that the very best one armed bandits were put just inside the main door of the casino; so that casino fanatics going by would see real jackpot winners and be infatuated enough to come unto the gaming floor … play. Our philosophy is that this is no longer the case.

Nearly all of the large casinos nowadays are monstrous complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machine games near to any entrances.

Yet another standard rule is that loose slot machine games are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be energized 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 slot games 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!

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