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Harbor Brewing Company LLC

Winthrop Harbor · Lake County · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 200701894 · Operator: Lucky Lincoln Gaming, LLC (as of October 2025)
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Efficient gamesetMomentum +2%YoY −17%

Your performance · October 2025

NTI
$4,833
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$39
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annual NTI
$38,973
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$1,208
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,237/mo
12th pct of 8,610 IL locations
#9 of 9 in Winthrop Harbor
Hold
9.7%
this month
state median 9.3% · above
57th pct of 8,610 IL locations
44th pct of 9 in Winthrop Harbor
Cycle rate
2.80×
this month
state median 2.72× · engagement
60th pct of 8,610 IL locations
44th pct of 9 in Winthrop Harbor
Play / machine
$12.5K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.8K/mo
10th pct of 8,610 IL locations
11th pct of 9 in Winthrop Harbor

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,728 of them), your NTI/machine is −$959/mo vs the $2,167 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (October 2025)

NTI this month
$4,833
Gaming tax
−$1,692
After tax
$3,142
Your take-home
$1,571
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$1,692 · 35%Operator's 50%$1,571 · 32%Yours, 50%$1,571 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,571 to you and $1,571 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

Efficient gameset

You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.

What an operator sees: An operator sees a well-run, efficient gameset — attractive, with upside if foot traffic can be grown.

NTI/machine — 12th percentile of 8,610 Illinois locations this month
In Winthrop Harbor — #9 of 9 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 27th percentile of 1,728
Your gameset — you among your Winthrop Harbor peers8 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Winthrop Harbor peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each gray dot is another Winthrop Harbor 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 $30,504
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Lake County median ($30,504) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.80× · state median 2.72×
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 $39 · Lake County median $165
your WPU (per machine, per day) Lake County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.7% · state median 9.3%
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 monthOctober 2025 up 276% on a year earlier
July 2024 – October 2025July 2023 – October 2024

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: September → October moved +164% this year vs −31% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Winthrop Harbor's total gaming income is +19% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −17% 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)
$39/day
per machine · per day · Lake County median $165/day · −76%
At the Lake County median this gameset would add roughly $187,978 a year.
WPU momentum
−52%
last 3 months $25/day vs prior 3 $53/day
Seasonality
July peak
strongest July ($4,696 avg) · softest December ($571 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±89% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Lucky Lincoln Gaming, LLC

Linked to your Location as of October 2025 — the Illinois Gaming Board publishes this each month, so a recent change may not show yet.

Locations
250
Avg NTI / Location
$36,896
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,375
Total NTI
$9,224,026

Year over year

Your NTI is −1% down year over year, trailing the Lake County market (+1%).

Your Location
−1%
$38,973 vs $39,403 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Lake County)
+1%
typical Location: $37,591 vs $37,072

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $1,208 in October 2025 — the 12th percentile of 8,610 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 Winthrop Harbor, that's #9 of 9 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 9.7% — above the 9.3% 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 2.80× 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.
•Efficient gameset — You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.
•After $1,692 in gaming tax, October 2025's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,571 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Lucky Lincoln Gaming, LLC runs 250 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full October 2025 report detail
Amount played
$49,855
Amount won
$45,022
Net wager
$4,833
Funds in
$17,798
Funds out
$12,964
Net terminal income
$4,833
NTI tax
$1,692
State share
$1,450
Municipality share
$242

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