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LUCKY JACK'S GAMING CAFÉ

Park City · Lake County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 170700189 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum −10%YoY +14%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$50,281
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$279
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$666,002
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$8,380
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
79th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#113 of 389 in Lake County
Hold
9.0%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
42nd pct of 8,629 IL locations
44th pct of 389 in Lake County
Cycle rate
1.99×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
3rd pct of 8,629 IL locations
4th pct of 389 in Lake County
Play / machine
$92.9K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
81st pct of 8,629 IL locations
71st pct of 389 in Lake County

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$3,392/mo vs the $4,988 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (September 2026)

NTI this month
$50,281
Gaming tax
−$17,598
After tax
$32,683
Your take-home
$16,341
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$17,598 · 35%Operator's 50%$16,341 · 32%Yours, 50%$16,341 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $16,341 to you and $16,341 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 · lower hold

Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.

What an operator sees: An operator sees busy machines with margin headroom — a gameset where better titles and merchandising pay off.

NTI/machine — 79th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Lake County — #113 of 389 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 75th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Lake County peers388 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Lake County peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Lake County 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 $83,610
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Lake County median ($31,170)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 1.99× · state median 2.59×
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 $279 · Lake County median $177
your WPU (per machine, per day) Lake County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.0% · 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 monthSeptember 2026 up 14% on a year earlier
October 2025 – September 2026October 2024 – September 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: August → September moved +12% this year vs −20% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Park City's total gaming income is −4% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +14% over the same-month-last-year comparison — holding up as well as or better than the town around you.

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)
$279/day
per machine · per day · Lake County median $177/day · +58%
WPU momentum
−19%
last 3 months $258/day vs prior 3 $318/day
Seasonality
November peak
strongest November ($59,311 avg) · softest February ($46,698 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±14% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Gold Rush Amusements, Inc.

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
733
Avg NTI / Location
$36,176
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,303
Total NTI
$26,517,213

Year over year

Your NTI is +25% up year over year, outpacing the Lake County market (+3%).

Your Location
+25%
$666,002 vs $533,470 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Lake County)
+3%
typical Location: $38,941 vs $37,671

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $8,380 in September 2026 — the 79th percentile of 8,629 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 Lake County, that's #113 of 389 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 9.0% — below the 9.4% state median, which a stronger game mix could recover. 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 1.99× 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 · lower hold — Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
•After $17,598 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $16,341 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 Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. runs 733 Locations in our data.
You're ahead of your market.

A gameset doing these numbers is the one Operators compete hardest for — and most owners never find out what that competition is worth, because they never put it out to bid.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$557,461
Amount won
$507,180
Net wager
$50,281
Funds in
$279,898
Funds out
$229,617
Net terminal income
$50,281
NTI tax
$17,598
State share
$15,082
Municipality share
$2,517

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

LUCKY JACK'S GAMING CAFÉ — gaming performance, Park City, Lake County, IL — The Gameset