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Books have been written on this subject, and the debates and ruckus about where the "hot" slot machine games are installed in a casino are still intense - more than sixty years after slot machine games were first added to the gaming floor in the casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the very best one armed bandits were put just inside the main door of the casino; so that people going by would see jackpot winners ... be stimulated to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our observation is that this is definitely no longer the case.

Many of the large casinos presently are grand complexes and now you can't see inside from the sidewalk, so there's no longer a reason to place the 'loose' slot games near to any of the doors.

An additional standard rule is that loose slot games are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Nonetheless, we find that this also isn't 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 machine 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!

In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slots.