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Volumes have been written on this issue, and the conflict and feuds about where the "hot" slot machine games are placed in a casino are still raging – more than 60 years after the slot machines were 1st installed in gambling dens.

The quintessential rule is that the very best slots were put just inside the entrance of the casino; so that casino fanatics passing by would be able to see actual jackpot winners … be possessed to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our frame of mind is that this is no longer the case.

Many of the major casinos nowadays are grand complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slots near any entrances.

Yet another classic rule is that loose slot machine games are located on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. Notably however, 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 the slot machines 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 slot machine games.