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Ultimate Lounge

Villa Park · DuPage County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 130700898 · Operator: Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd. (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum −10%YoY −34%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$42,580
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$229
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$518,952
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$7,097
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
71st pct of 8,611 IL locations
#17 of 27 in Villa Park
Hold
10.0%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
61st pct of 8,611 IL locations
70th pct of 27 in Villa Park
Cycle rate
2.85×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
77th pct of 8,611 IL locations
83rd pct of 27 in Villa Park
Play / machine
$71.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
68th pct of 8,611 IL locations
44th pct of 27 in Villa Park

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$1,987/mo vs the $5,109 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (August 2026)

NTI this month
$42,580
Gaming tax
−$14,903
After tax
$27,677
Your take-home
$13,838
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$14,903 · 35%Operator's 50%$13,838 · 32%Yours, 50%$13,838 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $13,838 to you and $13,838 to your operator this month. Neither side can move that split. That's the whole point of The Gameset: with the split set by statute, operators compete for your gameset on service — games, cabinets, refresh cadence, response time.

Where your gameset stands

High play · high hold

Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.

What an operator sees: An operator reads this as a proven, high-value gameset and will compete hard on service to win it.

NTI/machine — 71st percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Villa Park — #17 of 27 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 66th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Villa Park peers26 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Villa Park peer (anonymized) statewide median

2 peer locations sit beyond the axis range and are drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Villa Park gameset for the same month, shown without identity. The dashed lines are the statewide medians — which quadrant you land in is the positioning above, drawn out.

Trend

Net terminal income by monthpeak $92,947
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Villa Park median ($46,415)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.85× · state median 2.60×
your cycle rate state median

Cycle rate is a leading indicator: when players start cycling their money fewer times, it usually shows up here before it shows up in NTI — an early read on gameset health for you and for an operator.

Win per unit by monthlatest $229 · Villa Park median $250
your WPU (per machine, per day) Villa Park median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 10.0% · state median 9.4%
your hold state median hold

These are the two series a service change shows up in. Fresher titles and faster response tend to move win per unit first; hold follows the game mix. Both are your own numbers against a neutral market line — not a verdict on anyone.

This year against last, by monthAugust 2026 down 34% on a year earlier
September 2025 – August 2026September 2024 – August 2025

A month that looks like a collapse is often just that month. Laid over the same months a year earlier, a seasonal dip and a real decline stop looking alike.

Seasonality check: July → August moved +30% this year vs +22% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Villa Park's total gaming income is +6% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −34% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your gameset.

A deeper operator read

The same history, cut the way a Terminal Operator cuts it when they decide how hard to compete for your gameset.

Win per unit (WPU)
$229/day
per machine · per day · Villa Park median $250/day · −8%
At the Villa Park median this gameset would add roughly $46,015 a year.
WPU momentum
+26%
last 3 months $234/day vs prior 3 $186/day
Seasonality
September peak
strongest September ($63,962 avg) · softest March ($46,377 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±41% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd.

Linked to your Location as of August 2026 — the Illinois Gaming Board publishes this each month, so a recent change may not show yet.

Locations
31
Avg NTI / Location
$57,207
Avg NTI / Terminal
$9,691
Total NTI
$1,773,422

Year over year

Your NTI is −14% down year over year, trailing the DuPage County market (+6%).

Your Location
−14%
$518,952 vs $606,445 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (DuPage County)
+6%
typical Location: $46,486 vs $44,060

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $7,097 in August 2026 — the 71st percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a gameset by, because it strips out how many machines you run.
•Within Villa Park, that's #17 of 27 locations by per-terminal earnings — the fairest like-for-like, since neighbors share the same foot traffic and economy.
•Hold — the share of money played that the gameset keeps — was 10.0% — above the 9.4% state median. Hold is driven mostly by the games in the gameset, which is exactly what an operator brings to the table.
•A dollar cycled through your machines 2.85× before leaving — higher means longer, more engaged sessions. When the cycle rate starts falling it usually shows up before NTI does, so it's an early read on gameset health for both sides.
•High play · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.
•After $14,903 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $13,838 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −10% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd. runs 31 Locations in our data.
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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$427,431
Amount won
$384,851
Net wager
$42,580
Funds in
$150,104
Funds out
$107,524
Net terminal income
$42,580
NTI tax
$14,903
State share
$12,772
Municipality share
$2,131

Source: Illinois Gaming Board monthly video gaming reports. This is public data about your own licensed Location, shown for informational purposes.