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BENHAM ZX CORPORATION

Pontoon Beach · Madison County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 230701969 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +1%YoY +521%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$30,580
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$170
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$271,260
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,097
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
58th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#14 of 16 in Pontoon Beach
Hold
10.0%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
62nd pct of 8,629 IL locations
69th pct of 16 in Pontoon Beach
Cycle rate
2.67×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
60th pct of 8,629 IL locations
47th pct of 16 in Pontoon Beach
Play / machine
$50.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
55th pct of 8,629 IL locations
25th pct of 16 in Pontoon Beach

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$108/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
$30,580
Gaming tax
−$10,703
After tax
$19,877
Your take-home
$9,939
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$10,703 · 35%Operator's 50%$9,939 · 32%Yours, 50%$9,939 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $9,939 to you and $9,939 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 — 58th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Pontoon Beach — #14 of 16 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 51st percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Pontoon Beach peers15 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Pontoon Beach 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 Pontoon Beach 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 $39,849
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Pontoon Beach median ($39,849)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.67× · 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 $170 · Pontoon Beach median $221
your WPU (per machine, per day) Pontoon Beach median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 10.0% · 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 521% on a year earlier
October 2025 – September 2026Oct 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 +88% this year vs −64% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Pontoon Beach's total gaming income is +7% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +521% 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)
$170/day
per machine · per day · Pontoon Beach median $221/day · −23%
At the Pontoon Beach median this gameset would add roughly $111,231 a year.
WPU momentum
−7%
last 3 months $123/day vs prior 3 $132/day
Seasonality
May peak
strongest May ($18,139 avg) · softest November ($9,831 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±20% month-to-month swing, trailing 12
Gameset change
2 → 6 terminals
over the last 12 months

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 +521% up year over year, outpacing the Madison County market (+1%).

Your Location
+521%
$30,580 vs $4,924 (vs a year ago)
The market (Madison County)
+1%
typical Location: $29,737 vs $29,349

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,097 in September 2026 — the 58th 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 Pontoon Beach, that's #14 of 16 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 10.0% — above the 9.4% 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 2.67× 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 $10,703 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $9,939 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•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
$304,838
Amount won
$274,258
Net wager
$30,580
Funds in
$114,080
Funds out
$83,500
Net terminal income
$30,580
NTI tax
$10,703
State share
$9,173
Municipality share
$1,531

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