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Tony Bar & Grill

Joliet · Will County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 250701198 · Operator: Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd. (as of August 2026)
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Room to growMomentum +12%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$19,864
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$107
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$238,363
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$3,311
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
39th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#54 of 91 in Joliet
Hold
8.5%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
32nd pct of 8,611 IL locations
24th pct of 91 in Joliet
Cycle rate
2.57×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
46th pct of 8,611 IL locations
43rd pct of 91 in Joliet
Play / machine
$39.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
42nd pct of 8,611 IL locations
49th pct of 91 in Joliet

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,799/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
$19,864
Gaming tax
−$6,952
After tax
$12,911
Your take-home
$6,456
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$6,952 · 35%Operator's 50%$6,456 · 32%Yours, 50%$6,456 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $6,456 to you and $6,456 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 — 39th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Joliet — #54 of 91 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 31st percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Joliet peers90 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Joliet peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Joliet 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 $29,894
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Joliet median ($23,950) shown, left out of rankings

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

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.57× · 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 $107 · Joliet median $130
your WPU (per machine, per day) Joliet median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.5% · 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

Joliet's total gaming income is +2% 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)
$107/day
per machine · per day · Joliet median $130/day · −18%
At the Joliet median this gameset would add roughly $52,461 a year.
WPU momentum
+7%
last 3 months $120/day vs prior 3 $113/day
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±42% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd.

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
31
Avg NTI / Location
$57,207
Avg NTI / Terminal
$9,691
Total NTI
$1,773,422

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $3,311 in August 2026 — the 39th 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 Joliet, that's #54 of 91 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 8.5% — 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 2.57× 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 $6,952 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $6,456 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +12% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd. runs 31 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$235,002
Amount won
$215,138
Net wager
$19,864
Funds in
$91,410
Funds out
$71,546
Net terminal income
$19,864
NTI tax
$6,952
State share
$5,958
Municipality share
$994

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