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Johnsburg · McHenry County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 260700029 · Operator: Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd.
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High play · high hold

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$49,601
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$276
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$595,218
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$8,267
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
79th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#5 of 14 in Johnsburg
Hold
12.3%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
90th pct of 8,629 IL locations
79th pct of 14 in Johnsburg
Cycle rate
2.43×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
28th pct of 8,629 IL locations
50th pct of 14 in Johnsburg
Play / machine
$67.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
67th pct of 8,629 IL locations
64th pct of 14 in Johnsburg

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$3,278/mo vs the $4,988 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
$49,601
Gaming tax
−$17,361
After tax
$32,241
Your take-home
$16,120
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$17,361 · 35%Operator's 50%$16,120 · 33%Yours, 50%$16,120 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $16,120 to you and $16,120 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 — 79th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Johnsburg — #5 of 14 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 75th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Johnsburg peers13 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Johnsburg 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 Johnsburg 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 $49,601
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Johnsburg median ($29,569)

One month loaded so far. The trend fills in as more monthly IGB reports are imported.

Your town's market

Johnsburg's total gaming income is +8% 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)
$276/day
per machine · per day · Johnsburg median $164/day · +68%

Your operator

Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd.
Locations
34
Avg NTI / Location
$47,443
Avg NTI / Terminal
$8,065
Total NTI
$1,613,052

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $8,267 in September 2026 — the 79th 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 Johnsburg, that's #5 of 14 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 12.3% — 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 2.43× 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 $17,361 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $16,120 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd. runs 34 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 September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$403,347
Amount won
$353,746
Net wager
$49,601
Funds in
$166,282
Funds out
$116,681
Net terminal income
$49,601
NTI tax
$17,361
State share
$14,878
Municipality share
$2,483

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