Volumes have been set forth on this topic, and the controversy and interchanges about where the "hot" one armed bandits are positioned in a casino are still raging – more than sixty years after slots were first added to the gaming floor in casinos.

The traditional rule is that the more favourable slot machine games were located just inside the main door of the casino; so that potential gamblers passing by would be able to see jackpot winners … be stimulated to come into the casino and play. Our presumption is that this is not so anymore.

Just about all of the big name casinos nowadays are oversized complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slot machines close to any entrances.

Another traditional rule is that loose slot games are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be inspired to play. Notably 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 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.