Books have been stated on this topic, and the bickering and face-offs about where the "hot" video slots are located in a casino are still on-going – more than sixty years after the slot machines were 1st added to the gaming floor in gambling houses.

The quintessential rule is that the most favorable slots were located just inside the main entry of the casino; so that casino fanatics going by would be able to see jackpot winners … be possessed to come into the casino … play. Our estimation is that this is definitely no longer the case.

The great majority of the large casinos these days are jumbo complexes … it’s no longer possible to see inside from the sidewalk, so there is no longer a reason to position the ‘loose’ slot games near to any entrances.

An additional classic rule is that loose slots are installed on the major aisles in the casinos, again so that more persons could see winning jackpots and be energized to play. Notably 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 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!

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