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Volumes have been set forth on this item, and the conflict and disharmony about where the "hot" slot games are placed in the casino are still there – over sixty yrs after slots were first placed 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 real jackpot winners and be stirred to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our sentiment is that this is definitely no longer so.

Just about all of the big name casinos nowadays are immense complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ one armed bandits in close proximity to any entrances.

Yet another standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be galvanized 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 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!

These days, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.