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Tuscola · Douglas County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 121000303 · Operator: Lucky Street Gaming LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum −5%YoY +45%3-month NTI decline

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$33,664
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$181
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$410,384
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,611
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
61st pct of 8,611 IL locations
#5 of 14 in Tuscola
Hold
10.9%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
77th pct of 8,611 IL locations
71st pct of 14 in Tuscola
Cycle rate
2.75×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
68th pct of 8,611 IL locations
86th pct of 14 in Tuscola
Play / machine
$51.5K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
54th pct of 8,611 IL locations
64th pct of 14 in Tuscola

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$501/mo vs the $5,109 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
$33,664
Gaming tax
−$11,782
After tax
$21,882
Your take-home
$10,941
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$11,782 · 35%Operator's 50%$10,941 · 33%Yours, 50%$10,941 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,941 to you and $10,941 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

High play · high hold

Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.

What an operator sees: An operator reads this as a proven, high-value gameset and will compete hard on service to win it.

NTI/machine — 61st percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Tuscola — #5 of 14 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 54th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Tuscola peers13 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Tuscola peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each gray dot is another Tuscola 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 $91,946
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Tuscola median ($17,620)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.75× · 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 $181 · Tuscola median $117
your WPU (per machine, per day) Tuscola median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 10.9% · 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 up 45% 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 −4% this year vs −29% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

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

Your own gameset is +45% 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)
$181/day
per machine · per day · Tuscola median $117/day · +55%
WPU momentum
−15%
last 3 months $196/day vs prior 3 $229/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($46,068 avg) · softest January ($28,115 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±23% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Lucky Street Gaming LLC

Linked to your Location as of August 2026 — the Illinois Gaming Board publishes this each month, so a recent change may not show yet.

Locations
60
Avg NTI / Location
$60,811
Avg NTI / Terminal
$9,477
Total NTI
$3,648,664

Year over year

Your NTI is +12% up year over year, outpacing the Douglas County market (+6%).

Your Location
+12%
$410,384 vs $365,141 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Douglas County)
+6%
typical Location: $22,274 vs $20,957

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,611 in August 2026 — the 61st 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 Tuscola, that's #5 of 14 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 10.9% — 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 2.75× 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.
•High play · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.
•After $11,782 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,941 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Heads-up: NTI has slipped three months running. Worth a look — it can be seasonal (check the year-ago comparison), or a sign the gameset is due for fresher titles or better service.
•Terminal Operator Lucky Street Gaming LLC runs 60 Locations in our data.
You're ahead of your market.

A gameset doing these numbers is the one Operators compete hardest for — and most owners never find out what that competition is worth, because they never put it out to bid.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$309,138
Amount won
$275,474
Net wager
$33,664
Funds in
$112,314
Funds out
$78,650
Net terminal income
$33,664
NTI tax
$11,782
State share
$10,098
Municipality share
$1,685

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