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Bar Dolci

Ottawa · LaSalle County · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 250702967 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
Room to growMomentum −41%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$1,169
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$10
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$14,033
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$292
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
1st pct of 8,629 IL locations
#43 of 43 in Ottawa
Hold
7.0%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
14th pct of 8,629 IL locations
14th pct of 43 in Ottawa
Cycle rate
2.20×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
9th pct of 8,629 IL locations
12th pct of 43 in Ottawa
Play / machine
$4.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
1st pct of 8,629 IL locations
5th pct of 43 in Ottawa

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,546 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,886/mo vs the $2,179 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (September 2026)

NTI this month
$1,169
Gaming tax
−$409
After tax
$760
Your take-home
$380
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$409 · 35%Operator's 50%$380 · 33%Yours, 50%$380 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $380 to you and $380 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 — 1st percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Ottawa — #43 of 43 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 3rd percentile of 1,546
Your gameset — you among your Ottawa peers42 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Ottawa 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 Ottawa 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 $21,238
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Ottawa median ($21,238) shown, left out of rankings

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

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.20× · state median 2.59×
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 $10 · Ottawa median $118
your WPU (per machine, per day) Ottawa median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 7.0% · 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.

Your town's market

Ottawa's total gaming income is +5% 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)
$10/day
per machine · per day · Ottawa median $118/day · −92%
At the Ottawa median this gameset would add roughly $155,870 a year.

Your operator

J&J Ventures 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
2,571
Avg NTI / Location
$31,971
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,578
Total NTI
$82,196,548

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $292 in September 2026 — the 1st percentile of 8,629 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 Ottawa, that's #43 of 43 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 7.0% — 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 2.20× 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 $409 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $380 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −41% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2571 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$16,683
Amount won
$15,513
Net wager
$1,170
Funds in
$7,572
Funds out
$6,403
Net terminal income
$1,169
NTI tax
$409
State share
$351
Municipality share
$59

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

Bar Dolci — gaming performance, Ottawa, LaSalle County, IL — The Gameset