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Volumes have been set forth on this topic, and the controversy and feuds about where the "hot" slot machine games are positioned in the casino are still ongoing – 60 years after the slots were first placed in gambling dens.

The standard rule is that the very best slot games were positioned just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that everyone going by would see jackpot winners … be impressed enough to come into the casino and play. Our sneaking suspicion is that this is definitely no longer so.

Nearly all of the major casinos presently are huge complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any doors.

Yet another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Nonetheless, we find that this also is not 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!

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