Those Waterloo businesses that broke $1 million played also include Pearl’s Player Palace at $1.1 million, Mobil On the Run at $1.7 million, Circle K at $1.5 million, Washy’s Saloon at $1 million and Willie’s West End at $1.7 million. Waterloo’s top video gambling locations for the first half of 2022 included Ruby’s with $4.3 million played, Debbie’s Slots Lounge with $3.1 million, Outsider Tavern with $2.9 million, Huck’s with $2.7 million and Randy’s Double R Bar with $2.3 million. Players in Waterloo were able to win nearly $25 million while the city received its share of $118,000 in gaming revenue. This total is already near the $70.4 million played in 2019, which was just prior to the pandemic.Īs in previous years, Waterloo led the surge in video gambling for the county, with the city’s 84 terminals spread across 16 establishments seeing more than $27.2 million played already this year. Following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown, video gambling in Monroe County is now seemingly bigger than ever before.īased on data from the Illinois Gaming Board, about $55 million was played on Monroe County machines in the first half of 2022.
