Volumes have been set forth on this subject, and the bickering and squabbling about where the "hot" video slots are installed in a casino are still there – more than sixty years after the slot machines were 1st placed in gambling dens.

The quintessential rule is that the more favourable one armed bandits were installed just inside the main entry of the casino; so that people going by would see actual jackpot winners … be inspired to come unto the gambling floor … play. Our belief is that this is definitely no longer so.

Nearly all of the big name casinos nowadays are giant complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot games close-by any doorways.

An additional traditional rule is that loose one armed bandits are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Notably however, 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 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!

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