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Volumes have been said on this issue, and the disquiet and interchanges about where the "hot" slot games are positioned in a casino are still raging – more than 60 yrs after the slot machines were first placed in casinos.

The standard rule is that the superior slot machine games were positioned just inside the main door of the casino; so that people going by would see actual jackpot winners … be impressed enough to come into the casino and play. Our view is that this is no longer the case.

The great majority of the mega casinos today are titanic complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machines close to any doorways.

An additional classic rule is that loose slots are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be roused to play. 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 slot 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 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!

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