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Louies Uptown

Winnebago · Winnebago County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 260701256 · Operator: Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd.
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Room to grow

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$5,869
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$33
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$70,431
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$978
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
9th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#281 of 297 in Winnebago County
Hold
7.6%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
20th pct of 8,629 IL locations
18th pct of 297 in Winnebago County
Cycle rate
2.83×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
76th pct of 8,629 IL locations
87th pct of 297 in Winnebago County
Play / machine
$12.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
11th pct of 8,629 IL locations
5th pct of 297 in Winnebago County

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is −$4,010/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
$5,869
Gaming tax
−$2,054
After tax
$3,815
Your take-home
$1,907
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$2,054 · 35%Operator's 50%$1,907 · 32%Yours, 50%$1,907 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,907 to you and $1,907 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 — 9th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Winnebago County — #281 of 297 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 6th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Winnebago County peers296 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Winnebago County peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Winnebago County 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 $35,756
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Winnebago County median ($35,756)

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

Your town's market

Winnebago's total gaming income is +30% 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)
$33/day
per machine · per day · Winnebago County median $201/day · −84%
At the Winnebago County median this gameset would add roughly $364,123 a year.

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 $978 in September 2026 — the 9th 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 Winnebago County, that's #281 of 297 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 7.6% — 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 2.83× 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 $2,054 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,907 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.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$76,974
Amount won
$71,105
Net wager
$5,869
Funds in
$27,194
Funds out
$21,325
Net terminal income
$5,869
NTI tax
$2,054
State share
$1,760
Municipality share
$294

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

Louies Uptown — gaming performance, Winnebago, Winnebago County, IL — The Gameset