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STONE VENTURES ROUND LAKE, INC.

Round Lake · Lake County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 260702347 · Operator: Empire Gaming, LLC
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Efficient gameset

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$16,516
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$92
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$198,197
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$2,753
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
34th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#9 of 12 in Round Lake
Hold
14.3%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
97th pct of 8,629 IL locations
100th pct of 12 in Round Lake
Cycle rate
2.17×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
7th pct of 8,629 IL locations
8th pct of 12 in Round Lake
Play / machine
$19.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
20th pct of 8,629 IL locations
21st pct of 12 in Round Lake

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is −$2,236/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
$16,516
Gaming tax
−$5,781
After tax
$10,736
Your take-home
$5,368
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$5,781 · 35%Operator's 50%$5,368 · 33%Yours, 50%$5,368 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $5,368 to you and $5,368 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 — 34th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Round Lake — #9 of 12 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 26th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Round Lake peers11 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Round Lake 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 Round Lake 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 $34,764
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Round Lake median ($34,764)

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

Your town's market

Round Lake's total gaming income is −7% 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)
$92/day
per machine · per day · Round Lake median $193/day · −52%
At the Round Lake median this gameset would add roughly $218,973 a year.

Your operator

Empire Gaming, LLC
Locations
69
Avg NTI / Location
$42,247
Avg NTI / Terminal
$7,041
Total NTI
$2,915,037

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $2,753 in September 2026 — the 34th 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 Round Lake, that's #9 of 12 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 14.3% — 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 2.17× 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 $5,781 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $5,368 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Empire Gaming, LLC runs 69 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$115,217
Amount won
$98,700
Net wager
$16,516
Funds in
$53,127
Funds out
$36,610
Net terminal income
$16,516
NTI tax
$5,781
State share
$4,954
Municipality share
$827

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

STONE VENTURES ROUND LAKE, INC. — gaming performance, Round Lake, Lake County, IL — The Gameset