Books have been set forth on this issue, and the debates and discourse about where the "hot" video slots are installed in the casino are still on-going – 60 years after one armed bandits were first added to the gaming floor in casinos.

The quintessential rule is that the very best slot games were positioned just inside the main entryway of the casino; so that people walking by would be able to see real jackpot winners … be keen enough to come into the casino and play. Our persuasion is that this is definitely no longer the case.

Just about all of the mega casinos today are enormous complexes … now you can’t see inside from the sidewalk, so there’s no longer a reason to have the ‘loose’ slots near any exits.

Yet another standard rule is that loose slot games are placed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be influenced to play. Importantly 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!

Today, casinos are constantly changing their philosophy about where to place the loose slots.