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Books have been set forth on this subject, and the conflict and face-offs about where the "hot" slots are positioned in a casino are still intense – over sixty yrs after slot machine games were 1st placed in the casinos.

The traditional rule is that the more favourable slot machines were put just inside the main foyer of the casino; so that potential players going by would see jackpot winners … be stirred to come inside and play. Our theorem is that this is no longer the case.

The majority of the mega casinos presently are grand complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ one armed bandits near to any of the doors.

Yet another traditional rule is that loose slot games are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Notably though, 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 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 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 games.