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Volumes have been said on this issue, and the disquiet and ruckus about where the "hot" one armed bandits are installed in a casino are still raging - more than sixty yrs after slot games were first installed in gambling houses.

The traditional rule is that the better slot machines were located just inside the main entrance of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would see actual jackpot winners ... be tempted to come inside and play. Our sentiment is that this is not so anymore.

Just about all of the large casinos presently are behemothic complexes ... it is not possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there's no longer a reason to position the 'loose' one armed bandits close-by any doorways.

Yet another classic rule is that loose slot machines are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. 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 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 one armed bandits.