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Volumes have been said on this issue, and the bickering and discord about where the "hot" slot machine games are placed in the casino are still passionate – over sixty years after one armed bandits were first added to the gaming floor in gambling dens.

The quintessential rule is that the most favorable slot machine games were installed just inside the door of the casino; so that potential gamblers going by would see actual jackpot winners and be drawn to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our reasoning is that this is not so anymore.

The majority of the big name casinos nowadays are oversized complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close to any entrances or exits.

Another traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are located on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. However, 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 philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.