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Books have been stated on this issue, and the conflict and discord about where the "hot" slots are placed in the casino are still bubbling – over sixty years after slot machine games were first added to the gaming floor in gambling dens.

The classic rule is that the better one armed bandits were installed just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that everyone going by would be able to see real jackpot winners and be impressed enough to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our finding is that this is no longer the case.

Most of the major casinos nowadays are titanic complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machine games close to any entrances.

Yet another traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Notably 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 the slots 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.