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Lews LLC

Clay City · Clay County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 260701318 · Operator: Illinois Gaming Investors LLC
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Efficient gameset

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$16,763
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$90
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$201,153
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$2,794
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
33rd pct of 8,611 IL locations
#15 of 22 in Clay County
Hold
16.2%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
99th pct of 8,611 IL locations
100th pct of 22 in Clay County
Cycle rate
2.62×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
53rd pct of 8,611 IL locations
32nd pct of 22 in Clay County
Play / machine
$17.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
16th pct of 8,611 IL locations
23rd pct of 22 in Clay County

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is −$2,316/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
$16,763
Gaming tax
−$5,867
After tax
$10,896
Your take-home
$5,448
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$5,867 · 35%Operator's 50%$5,448 · 32%Yours, 50%$5,448 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $5,448 to you and $5,448 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

Efficient gameset

You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.

What an operator sees: An operator sees a well-run, efficient gameset — attractive, with upside if foot traffic can be grown.

NTI/machine — 33rd percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Clay County — #15 of 22 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 25th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Clay County peers21 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Clay County 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 Clay 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 $19,537
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Clay County median ($19,537)

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

Your town's market

Clay City's total gaming income is +27% 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)
$90/day
per machine · per day · Clay County median $106/day · −15%
At the Clay County median this gameset would add roughly $34,541 a year.

Your operator

Illinois Gaming Investors LLC
Locations
397
Avg NTI / Location
$29,168
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,163
Total NTI
$11,579,560

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $2,794 in August 2026 — the 33rd 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 Clay County, that's #15 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 16.2% — 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 2.62× 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.
•Efficient gameset — You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.
•After $5,867 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $5,448 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Illinois Gaming Investors LLC runs 397 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$103,495
Amount won
$86,732
Net wager
$16,763
Funds in
$39,440
Funds out
$22,677
Net terminal income
$16,763
NTI tax
$5,867
State share
$5,028
Municipality share
$839

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

Lews LLC — gaming performance, Clay City, Clay County, IL — The Gameset