Volumes have been said on this issue, and the bickering and squabbling about where the "hot" slot games are installed in the casino are still ongoing – over 60 yrs after the slots were 1st added to the gaming floor in gambling houses.

The classic rule is that the best slot games were put just inside the main door of the casino; so that potential players walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be titillated to come into the casino … play. Our determination is that this is definitely no longer so.

Almost all of the large casinos today are gigantic complexes and you can no longer see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slots near to any doorways.

Yet another traditional rule is that loose slot machine games are installed on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more people could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Notably however, 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 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 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!

In recent times, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slot machine games.