Volumes have been written on this issue, and the disquiet and feuds about where the "hot" one armed bandits are placed in the casino are still rampant – sixty years after slot machines were 1st placed in casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the very best slots were placed just inside the door of the casino; so that everyone passing by would see actual jackpot winners … be enthralled to come into the casino and play. Our view is that this is not so anymore.

Many of the big name casinos presently are mammoth complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot machines in close proximity to any entrances.

An additional standard rule is that loose one armed bandits are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. Nonetheless, 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 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!

Nowadays, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slots.