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Aledo · Mercer County · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 120910348
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Room to growMomentum +4%YoY −56%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$3,509
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$28
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annual NTI
$59,144
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$877
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
8th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#17 of 19 in Mercer County
Hold
4.8%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
4th pct of 8,611 IL locations
11th pct of 19 in Mercer County
Cycle rate
2.74×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
66th pct of 8,611 IL locations
63rd pct of 19 in Mercer County
Play / machine
$18.3K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
18th pct of 8,611 IL locations
39th pct of 19 in Mercer County

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,547 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,363/mo vs the $2,240 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
$3,509
Gaming tax
−$1,228
After tax
$2,281
Your take-home
$1,140
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$1,228 · 35%Operator's 50%$1,140 · 32%Yours, 50%$1,140 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,140 to you and $1,140 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 — 8th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Mercer County — #17 of 19 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 18th percentile of 1,547
Your gameset — you among your Mercer County peers18 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Mercer County 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 Mercer 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 $11,440
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Mercer County median ($11,440) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.74× · state median 2.60×
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 $28 · Mercer County median $62
your WPU (per machine, per day) Mercer County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 4.8% · 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 monthAugust 2026 down 56% on a year earlier
September 2025 – August 2026September 2024 – August 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: July → August moved −49% this year vs +362% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Aledo's total gaming income is +15% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −56% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your gameset.

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)
$28/day
per machine · per day · Mercer County median $62/day · −54%
At the Mercer County median this gameset would add roughly $50,294 a year.
WPU momentum
+23%
last 3 months $40/day vs prior 3 $32/day
Seasonality
August peak
strongest August ($3,933 avg) · softest April ($1,055 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±36% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Year over year

Your NTI is +44% up year over year, outpacing the Mercer County market (+3%).

Your Location
+44%
$59,144 vs $41,063 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Mercer County)
+3%
typical Location: $12,467 vs $12,100

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $877 in August 2026 — the 8th 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 Mercer County, that's #17 of 19 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 4.8% — 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 2.74× 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 $1,228 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,140 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +4% against your trailing average.
There's headroom in these numbers.

Operators bid on what they'd put in your gameset — newer cabinets, better titles, faster fixes. We'll turn your profile into an anonymized Listing they compete on.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$73,161
Amount won
$69,652
Net wager
$3,509
Funds in
$26,731
Funds out
$23,222
Net terminal income
$3,509
NTI tax
$1,228
State share
$1,053
Municipality share
$176

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