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Arena Lounge Inc.

Oak Lawn · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 130702329
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High play · high holdMomentum +1%YoY −40%

Your performance · December 2022

NTI
$30,376
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$163
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$442,492
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,063
monthly · per terminal
state median $3,907/mo
61st pct of 8,021 IL locations
#27 of 45 in Oak Lawn
Hold
9.5%
this month
state median 8.8% · above
62nd pct of 8,021 IL locations
67th pct of 45 in Oak Lawn
Cycle rate
3.08×
this month
state median 2.95× · engagement
65th pct of 8,021 IL locations
73rd pct of 45 in Oak Lawn
Play / machine
$53.4K
monthly · per terminal
state median $44.3K/mo
58th pct of 8,021 IL locations
39th pct of 45 in Oak Lawn

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 5,374 of them), your NTI/machine is −$70/mo vs the $5,133 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (December 2022)

NTI this month
$30,376
Gaming tax
−$10,328
After tax
$20,048
Your take-home
$10,024
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$10,328 · 34%Operator's 50%$10,024 · 33%Yours, 50%$10,024 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,024 to you and $10,024 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 — 61st percentile of 8,021 Illinois locations this month
In Oak Lawn — #27 of 45 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 49th percentile of 5,374
Your gameset — you among your Oak Lawn peers44 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Oak Lawn 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 Oak Lawn 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 $61,407
2021
2022
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Oak Lawn median ($37,178)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 3.08× · state median 2.95×
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 $163 · Oak Lawn median $200
your WPU (per machine, per day) Oak Lawn median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.5% · state median 8.8%
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 monthDecember 2022 down 40% on a year earlier
January 2022 – December 2022January 2021 – December 2021

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: November → December moved −28% this year vs +22% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Oak Lawn's total gaming income is +2% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −40% 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)
$163/day
per machine · per day · Oak Lawn median $200/day · −18%
At the Oak Lawn median this gameset would add roughly $81,616 a year.
WPU momentum
+4%
last 3 months $194/day vs prior 3 $186/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($52,371 avg) · softest August ($26,956 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±19% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Year over year

Your NTI is −0% down year over year.

Your Location
−0%
$442,492 vs $443,642 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market
Not enough county history

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,063 in December 2022 — the 61st percentile of 8,021 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 Oak Lawn, that's #27 of 45 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 9.5% — above the 8.8% 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 3.08× 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 $10,328 in gaming tax, December 2022's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,024 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full December 2022 report detail
Amount played
$320,597
Amount won
$290,220
Net wager
$30,376
Funds in
$104,011
Funds out
$73,635
Net terminal income
$30,376
NTI tax
$10,328
State share
$8,809
Municipality share
$1,519

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