Books have been set forth on this item, and the debates and disagreement about where the "hot" video slots are positioned in a casino are still ongoing – more than 60 years after slot machines were first placed in the casinos.

The traditional rule is that the more favourable slot machine games were put just inside the entrance of the casino; so that individuals walking by would see actual jackpot winners and be impressed enough to come inside … play. Our inclination is that this is no longer the case.

Nearly all of the mega casinos nowadays are jumbo complexes … you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot games near any doorways.

Yet another traditional rule is that loose one armed bandits are put on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential players could see winning jackpots and be galvanized to play. Notably however, 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 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!

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