Volumes have been written on this issue, and the contention and interchanges about where the "hot" slot machine games are positioned in the casino are still intense – more than sixty years after slots were 1st placed in the casinos.

The traditional rule is that the better slot games were installed just inside the main entry of the casino; so that potential gamblers walking by would see actual jackpot winners … be aroused to come into the casino … play. Our frame of mind is that this is definitely no longer so.

The majority of the large casinos today are jumbo complexes and it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to put the ‘loose’ slot machines close-by any entrances or exits.

An additional traditional rule is that loose slot machines are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more potential gamblers could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Nonetheless, 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!

Today, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose one armed bandits.