Volumes have been said on this item, and the debates and disharmony about where the "hot" slot machine games are installed in the casino are still intense – over 60 years after the slot machines were 1st placed in gambling houses.

The traditional rule is that the superior one armed bandits were positioned just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that potential gamblers walking by would be able to see actual jackpot winners and be convinced to come into the casino and play. Our belief is that this is definitely no longer the case.

Just about all of the major casinos these days are titanic complexes and you no longer can see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot machines near any exits.

Another classic rule is that loose slot games are put on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Interestingly though, we find that this also isn’t 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 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!

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