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QUAD CITIES CHAPTER #53 DAV

Granite City · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 120904621
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Room to growMomentum +6%YoY +293%

Your performance · March 2026

NTI
$5,903
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$48
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annual NTI
$44,728
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$1,476
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,676/mo
14th pct of 8,548 IL locations
#25 of 29 in Granite City
Hold
8.1%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
26th pct of 8,548 IL locations
28th pct of 29 in Granite City
Cycle rate
3.08×
this month
state median 2.65× · engagement
89th pct of 8,548 IL locations
78th pct of 29 in Granite City
Play / machine
$18.3K
monthly · per terminal
state median $50.0K/mo
16th pct of 8,548 IL locations
22nd pct of 29 in Granite City

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,632 of them), your NTI/machine is −$844/mo vs the $2,319 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (March 2026)

NTI this month
$5,903
Gaming tax
−$2,066
After tax
$3,837
Your take-home
$1,919
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$2,066 · 35%Operator's 50%$1,919 · 32%Yours, 50%$1,919 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,919 to you and $1,919 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 — 14th percentile of 8,548 Illinois locations this month
In Granite City — #25 of 29 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 32nd percentile of 1,632
Your gameset — you among your Granite City peers28 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Granite City peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Granite City 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 $21,532
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Granite City median ($21,532)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 3.08× · state median 2.65×
your cycle rate state median

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 gameset health for you and for an operator.

Win per unit by monthlatest $48 · Granite City median $131
your WPU (per machine, per day) Granite City median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.1% · state median 9.4%
your hold state median hold

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.

This year against last, by monthMarch 2026 up 293% on a year earlier
April 2025 – March 2026April 2024 – March 2025

A month that looks like a collapse is often just that month. Laid over the same months a year earlier, a seasonal dip and a real decline stop looking alike.

Seasonality check: February → March moved +134% this year vs +138% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Granite City's total gaming income is +10% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +293% 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 gameset.

Win per unit (WPU)
$48/day
per machine · per day · Granite City median $131/day · −64%
At the Granite City median this gameset would add roughly $123,624 a year.
WPU momentum
−18%
last 3 months $28/day vs prior 3 $34/day
Seasonality
August peak
strongest August ($6,376 avg) · softest September ($2,349 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±38% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Year over year

Your NTI is +14% up year over year.

Your Location
+14%
$44,728 vs $39,101 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market
Not enough county history

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $1,476 in March 2026 — the 14th percentile of 8,548 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 Granite City, that's #25 of 29 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 8.1% — 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 3.08× 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 $2,066 in gaming tax, March 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,919 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +6% against your trailing average.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full March 2026 report detail
Amount played
$73,036
Amount won
$67,132
Net wager
$5,904
Funds in
$23,745
Funds out
$17,841
Net terminal income
$5,903
NTI tax
$2,066
State share
$1,771
Municipality share
$295

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