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Wadsworth Liquor & Gaming

Wadsworth · Lake County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 240702979 · Operator: Aces Up Gaming LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +13%YoY +240%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$45,659
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$245
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$535,810
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$7,610
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
75th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#12 of 17 in Wadsworth
Hold
10.0%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
62nd pct of 8,611 IL locations
76th pct of 17 in Wadsworth
Cycle rate
2.30×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
15th pct of 8,611 IL locations
12th pct of 17 in Wadsworth
Play / machine
$76.3K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
71st pct of 8,611 IL locations
35th pct of 17 in Wadsworth

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$2,500/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
$45,659
Gaming tax
−$15,981
After tax
$29,678
Your take-home
$14,839
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$15,981 · 35%Operator's 50%$14,839 · 32%Yours, 50%$14,839 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $14,839 to you and $14,839 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 — 75th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Wadsworth — #12 of 17 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 70th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Wadsworth peers16 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Wadsworth 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 Wadsworth 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 $71,091
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Wadsworth median ($71,091)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.30× · 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 $245 · Wadsworth median $303
your WPU (per machine, per day) Wadsworth 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 monthAugust 2026 up 240% 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 −33% this year vs −46% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Wadsworth's total gaming income is +13% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +240% 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)
$245/day
per machine · per day · Wadsworth median $303/day · −19%
At the Wadsworth median this gameset would add roughly $127,691 a year.
WPU momentum
+30%
last 3 months $315/day vs prior 3 $243/day
Seasonality
December peak
strongest December ($59,215 avg) · softest September ($25,248 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±28% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Aces Up 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
10
Avg NTI / Location
$83,518
Avg NTI / Terminal
$14,156
Total NTI
$835,181

Year over year

Your NTI is +240% up year over year, outpacing the Lake County market (+3%).

Your Location
+240%
$45,659 vs $13,416 (vs a year ago)
The market (Lake County)
+3%
typical Location: $38,736 vs $37,626

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $7,610 in August 2026 — the 75th 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 Wadsworth, that's #12 of 17 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 2.30× 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 $15,981 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $14,839 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +13% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Aces Up Gaming LLC runs 10 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$457,864
Amount won
$412,205
Net wager
$45,659
Funds in
$199,413
Funds out
$153,754
Net terminal income
$45,659
NTI tax
$15,981
State share
$13,695
Municipality share
$2,285

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