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Books have been said on this issue, and the conflict and feuds about where the "hot" slot machine games are positioned in a casino are still taking place – more than sixty yrs after slot machines were first installed in gambling houses.

The quintessential rule is that the better one armed bandits were located just inside the entry of the casino; so that persons walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be convinced to come into the casino and play. Our position is that this is no longer true.

Almost all of the big name casinos these days are behemothic complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slot machine games close to any exits.

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 motivated to play. Interestingly though, we find that this also is not 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 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 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!

Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machine games.