Volumes have been set forth on this topic, and the disquiet and disharmony about where the "hot" video slots are placed in the casino are still passionate – more than 60 years after slot games were first placed in gambling dens.

The standard rule is that the superior slot games were located just inside the main foyer of the casino; so that folks walking by would see jackpot winners and be drawn to come into the casino … play. Our philosophy is that this is definitely no longer true.

Just about all of the big name casinos presently are enormous complexes … you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slot games near to any exits.

An additional traditional rule is that loose slot games are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more folks could see winning jackpots and be motivated to play. Interestingly though, 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 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.