The Tender Trap, Ltd.
Your performance · December 2023
The four numbers operators read first
Against floors your size (6+ terminals, 5,909 of them), your NTI/machine is +$921/mo vs the $5,010 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.
Where the money goes (December 2023)
Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $11,744 to you and $11,744 to your operator this month. Neither side can move that split. That's the whole point of The Gameset: since the money is set by statute, operators compete for your floor on service — games, cabinets, refresh cadence, response time — not on dollars.
Where your floor stands
Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
What an operator sees: An operator sees busy machines with margin headroom — a floor where better titles and merchandising pay off.
1 peer floor sits beyond the axis range and is drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.
Each grey dot is another Chicago Heights floor 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
Cycle rate is a leading indicator: when players start cycling their money fewer times, it usually shows up here before it shows up in NTI — an early read on floor health for you and for an operator.
These are the two series a service change shows up in. Fresher titles and faster response tend to move win per unit first; hold follows the game mix. Both are your own numbers against a neutral market line — not a verdict on anyone.
Seasonality check: November → December moved −1% this year vs −0% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.
Your town's market
Chicago Heights's total gaming income is −2% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).
Your own floor is +24% over the same-month-last-year comparison — holding up as well as or better than the town around you.
A deeper operator read
The same history, cut the way a Terminal Operator cuts it when they decide how hard to compete for your floor.
Year over year
Your NTI is −17% down year over year.
Takeaways
We'll turn your profile into an anonymized Listing. Operators compete on service — never money.
Full December 2023 report detail
Source: Illinois Gaming Board monthly video gaming reports. This is public data about your own licensed Location, shown for informational purposes.