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JENNY'S GAMING CAFE

Kewanee · Henry County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 250700866 · Operator: Empire Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum −5%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$35,401
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$190
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$424,808
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,900
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
63rd pct of 8,611 IL locations
#10 of 22 in Kewanee
Hold
11.9%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
87th pct of 8,611 IL locations
86th pct of 22 in Kewanee
Cycle rate
2.34×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
19th pct of 8,611 IL locations
2nd pct of 22 in Kewanee
Play / machine
$49.4K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
52nd pct of 8,611 IL locations
64th pct of 22 in Kewanee

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$791/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
$35,401
Gaming tax
−$12,390
After tax
$23,010
Your take-home
$11,505
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$12,390 · 35%Operator's 50%$11,505 · 32%Yours, 50%$11,505 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $11,505 to you and $11,505 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 — 63rd percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Kewanee — #10 of 22 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 57th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Kewanee peers21 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Kewanee 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 Kewanee 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 $50,255
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Kewanee median ($18,118)

11 months loaded — partial history. The trend fills in as more monthly IGB reports are imported.

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.34× · 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 $190 · Kewanee median $97
your WPU (per machine, per day) Kewanee median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 11.9% · 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

Kewanee's total gaming income is +3% 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)
$190/day
per machine · per day · Kewanee median $97/day · +95%
WPU momentum
−9%
last 3 months $188/day vs prior 3 $207/day
Revenue steadiness
variable
±18% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Empire 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
67
Avg NTI / Location
$45,925
Avg NTI / Terminal
$7,560
Total NTI
$3,076,974

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,900 in August 2026 — the 63rd 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 Kewanee, that's #10 of 22 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 11.9% — 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 2.34× 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 $12,390 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $11,505 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −5% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Empire Gaming, LLC runs 67 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
$296,658
Amount won
$261,257
Net wager
$35,401
Funds in
$126,837
Funds out
$91,436
Net terminal income
$35,401
NTI tax
$12,390
State share
$10,618
Municipality share
$1,772

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