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Quincy · Adams County · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 170703652 · Operator: Heck Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to growMomentum −12%YoY −38%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$756
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$6
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annual NTI
$18,145
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$189
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
1st pct of 8,611 IL locations
#85 of 86 in Quincy
Hold
4.8%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
4th pct of 8,611 IL locations
3rd pct of 86 in Quincy
Cycle rate
2.48×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
35th pct of 8,611 IL locations
31st pct of 86 in Quincy
Play / machine
$3.9K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
1st pct of 8,611 IL locations
6th pct of 86 in Quincy

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,547 of them), your NTI/machine is −$2,051/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
$756
Gaming tax
−$265
After tax
$492
Your take-home
$246
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$265 · 35%Operator's 50%$246 · 33%Yours, 50%$246 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $246 to you and $246 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 — 1st percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Quincy — #85 of 86 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 2nd percentile of 1,547
Your gameset — you among your Quincy peers85 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Quincy peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Quincy 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 $14,731
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Quincy median ($14,731) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.48× · 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 $6 · Quincy median $120
your WPU (per machine, per day) Quincy 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 38% 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.

Your town's market

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

Your own gameset is −38% 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)
$6/day
per machine · per day · Quincy median $120/day · −95%
At the Quincy median this gameset would add roughly $170,091 a year.
WPU momentum
−31%
last 3 months $15/day vs prior 3 $21/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($3,444 avg) · softest November ($1,372 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±72% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Heck 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
104
Avg NTI / Location
$15,055
Avg NTI / Terminal
$3,616
Total NTI
$1,565,746

Year over year

Your NTI is +0% up year over year, outpacing the Adams County market (−5%).

Your Location
+0%
$18,145 vs $18,121 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Adams County)
−5%
typical Location: $20,718 vs $21,818

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $189 in August 2026 — the 1st 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 Quincy, that's #85 of 86 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 2.48× 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 $265 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $246 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −12% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Heck Gaming, LLC runs 104 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$15,659
Amount won
$14,903
Net wager
$756
Funds in
$6,302
Funds out
$5,545
Net terminal income
$756
NTI tax
$265
State share
$227
Municipality share
$38

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