Volumes have been said on this item, and the conflict and interchanges about where the "hot" one armed bandits are located in the casino are still there – sixty years after slot machines were 1st installed in gambling dens.

The traditional rule is that the better slot machine games were located just inside the main door of the casino; so that people going by would see jackpot winners … be influenced to come unto the gambling floor and play. Our frame of mind is that this is no longer the case.

Nearly all of the large casinos nowadays are titanic complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slot games near any doors.

An additional traditional rule is that loose slot machines are placed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Importantly though, 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 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 philosophy about where to place the loose slots.