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Express Lane Gas & Food Mart

Davis · Stephenson County · IL · 3 terminals
IGB license 170702246 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum −7%YoY +109%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$10,605
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$118
per machine · per day
Terminals
3
machines in service
Annual NTI
$89,119
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$3,535
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
43rd pct of 8,629 IL locations
#40 of 61 in Stephenson County
Hold
7.0%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
14th pct of 8,629 IL locations
8th pct of 61 in Stephenson County
Cycle rate
3.31×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
96th pct of 8,629 IL locations
98th pct of 61 in Stephenson County
Play / machine
$50.3K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
54th pct of 8,629 IL locations
54th pct of 61 in Stephenson County

Against locations your size (1–3 terminals, 260 of them), your NTI/machine is +$1,912/mo vs the $1,623 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
$10,605
Gaming tax
−$3,712
After tax
$6,893
Your take-home
$3,447
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$3,712 · 35%Operator's 50%$3,447 · 32%Yours, 50%$3,447 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,447 to you and $3,447 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 — 43rd percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Stephenson County — #40 of 61 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (1–3 terminals) — 80th percentile of 260
Your gameset — you among your Stephenson County peers60 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Stephenson County peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Stephenson 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 $23,708
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Stephenson County median ($23,708)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 3.31× · 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 $118 · Stephenson County median $143
your WPU (per machine, per day) Stephenson County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 7.0% · 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 109% 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 +215% this year vs −23% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Davis's total gaming income is +65% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +109% 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)
$118/day
per machine · per day · Stephenson County median $143/day · −18%
At the Stephenson County median this gameset would add roughly $27,063 a year.
WPU momentum
−17%
last 3 months $65/day vs prior 3 $78/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($10,005 avg) · softest August ($4,914 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±39% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC

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
2,571
Avg NTI / Location
$31,971
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,578
Total NTI
$82,196,548

Year over year

Your NTI is −3% down year over year, trailing the Stephenson County market (+4%).

Your Location
−3%
$89,119 vs $91,507 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Stephenson County)
+4%
typical Location: $28,161 vs $27,051

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $3,535 in September 2026 — the 43rd 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 Stephenson County, that's #40 of 61 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 7.0% — 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 3.31× 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 $3,712 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,447 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −7% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2571 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$150,907
Amount won
$140,302
Net wager
$10,605
Funds in
$45,643
Funds out
$35,038
Net terminal income
$10,605
NTI tax
$3,712
State share
$3,181
Municipality share
$531

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

Express Lane Gas & Food Mart — gaming performance, Davis, Stephenson County, IL — The Gameset