Books have been said on this topic, and the disquiet and discourse about where the "hot" video slots are positioned in the casino are still intense – sixty yrs after the slots were 1st added to the gaming floor in casinos.

The classic rule is that the very best one armed bandits were installed just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that potential gamblers passing by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be enticed to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our belief is that this is not so anymore.

Just about all of the major casinos these days are magnificent complexes … it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machines in close proximity to any doorways.

An additional classic rule is that loose slots are positioned on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be encouraged to play. Importantly 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 one armed bandits 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!

These days, casinos are constantly changing their perspective about where to place the loose slot machines.