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LUCKY ROCKS BAR & GRILL

Carol Stream · DuPage County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 240700173 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +9%YoY +55%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$70,506
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$379
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$753,658
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$11,751
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
90th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#6 of 27 in Carol Stream
Hold
11.4%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
83rd pct of 8,611 IL locations
81st pct of 27 in Carol Stream
Cycle rate
2.63×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
53rd pct of 8,611 IL locations
59th pct of 27 in Carol Stream
Play / machine
$103.0K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
84th pct of 8,611 IL locations
67th pct of 27 in Carol Stream

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$6,642/mo vs the $5,109 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (August 2026)

NTI this month
$70,506
Gaming tax
−$24,677
After tax
$45,829
Your take-home
$22,915
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$24,677 · 35%Operator's 50%$22,915 · 32%Yours, 50%$22,915 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $22,915 to you and $22,915 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 — 90th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Carol Stream — #6 of 27 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 88th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Carol Stream peers26 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Carol Stream peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Carol Stream 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 $79,058
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Carol Stream median ($46,383)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.63× · state median 2.60×
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 $379 · Carol Stream median $249
your WPU (per machine, per day) Carol Stream median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 11.4% · 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 monthAugust 2026 up 55% on a year earlier
September 2025 – August 2026Sep 2024 – August 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: July → August moved −9% this year vs −12% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Carol Stream's total gaming income is +14% 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 — 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)
$379/day
per machine · per day · Carol Stream median $249/day · +52%
WPU momentum
−0%
last 3 months $388/day vs prior 3 $389/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($78,552 avg) · softest February ($46,133 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±15% 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
729
Avg NTI / Location
$37,312
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,498
Total NTI
$27,200,241

Year over year

Your NTI is +55% up year over year, outpacing the DuPage County market (+6%).

Your Location
+55%
$70,506 vs $45,458 (vs a year ago)
The market (DuPage County)
+6%
typical Location: $46,486 vs $44,060

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $11,751 in August 2026 — the 90th percentile of 8,611 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 Carol Stream, that's #6 of 27 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 11.4% — 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 2.63× 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 $24,677 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $22,915 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +9% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. runs 729 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 August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$617,743
Amount won
$547,237
Net wager
$70,506
Funds in
$235,035
Funds out
$164,529
Net terminal income
$70,506
NTI tax
$24,677
State share
$21,148
Municipality share
$3,529

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

LUCKY ROCKS BAR & GRILL — gaming performance, Carol Stream, DuPage County, IL — The Gameset