Volumes have been written on this matter, and the disquiet and arguments about where the "hot" slot games are installed in the casino are still bubbling – sixty yrs after slots were 1st placed in the casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the very best one armed bandits were placed just inside the main entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics passing by would see real jackpot winners and be convinced to come into the casino … play. Our reckoning is that this is no longer true.

Practically all of the big name casinos nowadays are enormous complexes and now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot games close to any of the doors.

An additional standard rule is that loose slot games are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. Notably 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 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!

These days, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose one armed bandits.