Books have been written on this subject, and the conflict and interchanges about where the "hot" slot machines are positioned in a casino are still there – over sixty years after one armed bandits were 1st placed in gambling houses.

The standard rule is that the superior slots were put just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that potential players going by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be titillated to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our position is that this is definitely no longer the case.

The majority of the big name casinos presently are enormous complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot games in close proximity to any of the doors.

An additional traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are located on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Importantly 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 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!

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