Volumes have been written on this item, and the bickering and ruckus about where the "hot" slot machines are installed in a casino are still happening – over sixty years after one armed bandits were first installed in the casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the superior slots were located just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that potential players going by would be able to see jackpot winners and be attracted to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our disposition is that this is definitely no longer true.

Just about all of the mega casinos today are titanic complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to situate the ‘loose’ slot machines in close proximity to any of the doors.

An additional standard rule is that loose slots are put on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more fun seekers could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. However, 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 slot machine games 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 perspective about where to place the loose slot machine games.