Volumes have been written on this subject, and the conflict and face-offs about where the "hot" one armed bandits are placed in a casino are still intense – over 60 yrs after slot machine games were first added to the gaming floor in casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the better slot machine games were placed just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that everyone going by would be able to see jackpot winners … be intrigued enough to come into the casino … play. Our reckoning is that this is no longer true.

The great majority of the mega casinos presently are grand complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machine games near any exits.

Another classic rule is that loose slot machines are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Nonetheless, we find that this also is no longer a universal rule.

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!

In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slots.