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The People's Choice Entertainment, Inc

Waukegan · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 210700962
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Room to growMomentum −26%YoY −55%

Your performance · June 2026

NTI
$11,745
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$65
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$339,827
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$1,958
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,132/mo
24th pct of 8,597 IL locations
#52 of 59 in Waukegan
Hold
7.6%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
21st pct of 8,597 IL locations
19th pct of 59 in Waukegan
Cycle rate
2.36×
this month
state median 2.61× · engagement
20th pct of 8,597 IL locations
51st pct of 59 in Waukegan
Play / machine
$25.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.2K/mo
28th pct of 8,597 IL locations
20th pct of 59 in Waukegan

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,745 of them), your NTI/machine is −$2,998/mo vs the $4,955 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (June 2026)

NTI this month
$11,745
Gaming tax
−$4,111
After tax
$7,634
Your take-home
$3,817
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$4,111 · 35%Operator's 50%$3,817 · 32%Yours, 50%$3,817 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,817 to you and $3,817 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

Room to grow

Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.

What an operator sees: An operator sees upside: a gameset where a real service upgrade has room to move the numbers.

NTI/machine — 24th percentile of 8,597 Illinois locations this month
In Waukegan — #52 of 59 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 17th percentile of 6,745
Your gameset — you among your Waukegan peers58 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Waukegan 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 Waukegan 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 $56,197
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Waukegan median ($36,644)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.36× · state median 2.61×
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 $65 · Waukegan median $204
your WPU (per machine, per day) Waukegan median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 7.6% · 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 monthJune 2026 down 55% on a year earlier
July 2025 – June 2026July 2024 – June 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: May → June moved −65% this year vs −45% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

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

Your own gameset is −55% 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)
$65/day
per machine · per day · Waukegan median $204/day · −68%
At the Waukegan median this gameset would add roughly $298,781 a year.
WPU momentum
−32%
last 3 months $128/day vs prior 3 $189/day
Seasonality
December peak
strongest December ($41,733 avg) · softest July ($28,437 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±27% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Year over year

Your NTI is −22% down year over year.

Your Location
−22%
$339,827 vs $434,467 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market
Not enough county history

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $1,958 in June 2026 — the 24th percentile of 8,597 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 Waukegan, that's #52 of 59 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 7.6% — 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 2.36× 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.
•Room to grow — Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.
•After $4,111 in gaming tax, June 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,817 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −26% against your trailing average.
There's headroom in these numbers.

Operators bid on what they'd put in your gameset — newer cabinets, better titles, faster fixes. We'll turn your profile into an anonymized Listing they compete on.

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Full June 2026 report detail
Amount played
$154,544
Amount won
$142,799
Net wager
$11,745
Funds in
$65,377
Funds out
$53,632
Net terminal income
$11,745
NTI tax
$4,111
State share
$3,523
Municipality share
$588

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