Volumes have been set forth on this item, and the disquiet and discord about where the "hot" video slots are installed in a casino are still intense – more than sixty yrs after slot machines were first placed in casinos.

The classic rule is that the best slot machines were located just inside the entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics going by would see actual jackpot winners and be baited to come into the casino … play. Our interpretation is that this is not so anymore.

Almost all of the large casinos these days are super-colossal complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machine games close to any of the doors.

An additional standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be roused 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 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 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!

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