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Books have been said on this matter, and the debates and face-offs about where the "hot" video slots are installed in a casino are still there – 60 years after slot machine games were 1st placed in casinos.

The traditional rule is that the best slot games were located just inside the main entry of the casino; so that folks walking by would be able to see jackpot winners … be impressed enough to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our perspective is that this is no longer the case.

Almost all of the major casinos nowadays are super-colossal complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machines close to any of the doors.

An additional standard rule is that loose slots are put on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. Importantly 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 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!

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