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Books have been written on this item, and the conflict and interchanges about where the "hot" one armed bandits are positioned in a casino are still there – 60 years after slot machine games were first placed in the casinos.

The traditional rule is that the most favorable slot games were positioned just inside the main door of the casino; so that people walking by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be intrigued enough to come inside … play. Our perspective is that this is definitely no longer true.

The majority of the large casinos today are humongous complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slots near any exits.

Another traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Notably however, 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 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 perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.