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Annabel's Cafe II

Calumet City · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 250700644 · Operator: Velasquez Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to growMomentum −10%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$22,725
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$122
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$327,134
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$3,788
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
44th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#12 of 20 in Calumet City
Hold
8.7%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
37th pct of 8,611 IL locations
35th pct of 20 in Calumet City
Cycle rate
2.22×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
10th pct of 8,611 IL locations
45th pct of 20 in Calumet City
Play / machine
$43.6K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
47th pct of 8,611 IL locations
40th pct of 20 in Calumet City

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,322/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
$22,725
Gaming tax
−$7,954
After tax
$14,771
Your take-home
$7,386
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$7,954 · 35%Operator's 50%$7,386 · 33%Yours, 50%$7,386 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $7,386 to you and $7,386 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 — 44th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Calumet City — #12 of 20 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 37th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Calumet City peers19 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Calumet City 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 Calumet City 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 $42,696
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Calumet City median ($28,277)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.22× · 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 $122 · Calumet City median $152
your WPU (per machine, per day) Calumet City median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.7% · 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

Calumet City's total gaming income is +1% 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)
$122/day
per machine · per day · Calumet City median $152/day · −20%
At the Calumet City median this gameset would add roughly $66,622 a year.
WPU momentum
+1%
last 3 months $155/day vs prior 3 $154/day
Seasonality
June peak
strongest June ($42,696 avg) · softest September ($4,411 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±34% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Velasquez 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
49
Avg NTI / Location
$17,791
Avg NTI / Terminal
$3,340
Total NTI
$871,762

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $3,788 in August 2026 — the 44th 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 Calumet City, that's #12 of 20 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 8.7% — 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 2.22× 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 $7,954 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $7,386 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −10% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Velasquez Gaming, LLC runs 49 Locations in our data.
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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$261,470
Amount won
$238,745
Net wager
$22,725
Funds in
$117,987
Funds out
$95,262
Net terminal income
$22,725
NTI tax
$7,954
State share
$6,816
Municipality share
$1,137

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