Books have been set forth on this topic, and the bickering and squabbling about where the "hot" slots are located in the casino are still intense – over sixty years after slots were 1st placed in casinos.

The standard rule is that the very best slots were positioned just inside the main doorway of the casino; so that casino fanatics walking by would see jackpot winners … be drawn to come unto the gaming floor and play. Our leaning is that this is definitely no longer so.

Many of the major casinos nowadays are colossal complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to place the ‘loose’ slot machines close to any of the doors.

An additional traditional rule is that loose slot machines are located on the major aisles inside the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be energized 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 slot machines 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 slot machine games.