Volumes have been said on this item, and the contention and feuds about where the "hot" slot machines are placed in the casino are still there – sixty years after the slots were first placed in casinos.

The standard rule is that the best one armed bandits were installed just inside the entry of the casino; so that persons passing by would see real jackpot winners and be impressed enough to come inside and play. Our reasoning is that this is definitely no longer true.

Many of the large casinos these days are massive complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ one armed bandits close-by any of the doors.

Another traditional rule is that loose slots are positioned on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Importantly though, we find that this also isn’t 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 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!

These days, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.