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ZOSIAS WINE BAR

Wauconda · Lake County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 230702467 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +38%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$70,938
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$394
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$462,540
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$11,823
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
91st pct of 8,629 IL locations
#2 of 21 in Wauconda
Hold
11.6%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
85th pct of 8,629 IL locations
90th pct of 21 in Wauconda
Cycle rate
2.25×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
12th pct of 8,629 IL locations
5th pct of 21 in Wauconda
Play / machine
$101.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
84th pct of 8,629 IL locations
81st pct of 21 in Wauconda

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$6,835/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
$70,938
Gaming tax
−$24,828
After tax
$46,110
Your take-home
$23,055
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$24,828 · 35%Operator's 50%$23,055 · 32%Yours, 50%$23,055 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $23,055 to you and $23,055 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 — 91st percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Wauconda — #2 of 21 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 89th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Wauconda peers20 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Wauconda peer (anonymized) statewide median

1 peer location sits beyond the axis range and is drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Wauconda 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 $70,938
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Wauconda median ($22,219)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.25× · 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 $394 · Wauconda median $123
your WPU (per machine, per day) Wauconda median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 11.6% · 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.

Your town's market

Wauconda's total gaming income is +8% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

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)
$394/day
per machine · per day · Wauconda median $123/day · +219%
WPU momentum
+41%
last 3 months $272/day vs prior 3 $193/day
Seasonality
September peak
strongest September ($70,938 avg) · softest November ($27,092 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±29% 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

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $11,823 in September 2026 — the 91st 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 Wauconda, that's #2 of 21 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 11.6% — 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 2.25× 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 $24,828 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $23,055 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +38% 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
$610,611
Amount won
$539,673
Net wager
$70,938
Funds in
$270,952
Funds out
$200,014
Net terminal income
$70,938
NTI tax
$24,828
State share
$21,278
Municipality share
$3,550

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