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Volumes have been set forth on this item, and the conflict and face-offs about where the "hot" slot machine games are positioned in the casino are still raging – 60 yrs after the slot machines were first placed in the casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the more favourable slot machines were put just inside the entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would see real jackpot winners … be mesmerized enough to come inside … play. Our point of view is that this is not so anymore.

Just about all of the big name casinos today are magnificent complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slots near to any of the doors.

Yet another standard rule is that loose slot machines are located on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be influenced 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 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 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 slots.