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SMOKEY JOE'S

Pontoon Beach · Madison County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 190701953 · Operator: Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC (as of June 2026)
High play · high holdMomentum +4%YoY −3%3-month NTI decline

Your performance · June 2026

NTI
$69,126
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$384
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$826,091
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$11,521
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,132/mo
90th pct of 8,597 IL floors
#3 of 17 in Pontoon Beach
Hold
9.6%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
54th pct of 8,597 IL floors
59th pct of 17 in Pontoon Beach
Cycle rate
2.52×
this month
state median 2.61× · engagement
38th pct of 8,597 IL floors
18th pct of 17 in Pontoon Beach
Play / machine
$120.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.2K/mo
90th pct of 8,597 IL floors
82nd pct of 17 in Pontoon Beach

Against floors your size (6+ terminals, 6,745 of them), your NTI/machine is +$6,566/mo vs the $4,955 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (June 2026)

NTI this month
$69,126
Gaming tax
−$24,194
After tax
$44,932
Your take-home
$22,466
your 50% this month

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $22,466 to you and $22,466 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

High play · high hold

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

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

NTI/machine — 90th percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors this month
In Pontoon Beach — #3 of 17 floors by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among floors your size (6+ terminals) — 88th percentile of 6,745
The Floor — you among your Pontoon Beach peers16 peer floors
play per machine →
your floor a Pontoon Beach peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each grey dot is another Pontoon Beach 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

Net terminal income by monthpeak $87,434
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Pontoon Beach median ($38,541)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.52× · state median 2.61×
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 floor health for you and for an operator.

Win per unit by monthlatest $384 · Pontoon Beach median $214
your WPU (per machine, per day) Pontoon Beach median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.6% · 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.

Seasonality check: May → June moved −9% this year vs +49% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Pontoon Beach's total gaming income is +2% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own floor is −3% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your floor.

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.

Win per unit (WPU)
$384/day
per machine · per day · Pontoon Beach median $214/day · +79%
WPU momentum
−2%
last 3 months $410/day vs prior 3 $420/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($57,137 avg) · softest January ($42,609 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±14% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC

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

Locations
2,662
Avg NTI / Location
$28,865
Avg NTI / Terminal
$4,999
Total NTI
$76,839,633

Year over year

Your NTI is +24% up year over year, outpacing the Madison County market (+0%).

Your Location
+24%
$826,091 vs $668,651 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Madison County)
+0%
typical Location: $29,550 vs $29,420

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $11,521 in June 2026 — the 90th percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a floor on, because it strips out how many machines you run.
•Within Pontoon Beach, that's #3 of 17 floors 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 floor keeps — was 9.6% — above the 9.4% state median. Hold is driven mostly by the games on the floor, which is exactly what an operator brings to the table.
•A dollar cycled through your machines 2.52× 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 floor health for both sides.
•High play · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your floor is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.
•After $24,194 in gaming tax, June 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $22,466 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service, not money.
•Heads-up: NTI has slipped three months running. Worth a look — it can be seasonal (check the year-ago comparison), or a sign the floor is due for fresher titles or better service.
•Terminal Operator Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC runs 2662 Locations in our data.
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Full June 2026 report detail
Amount played
$721,468
Amount won
$652,342
Net wager
$69,126
Funds in
$286,702
Funds out
$217,576
Net terminal income
$69,126
NTI tax
$24,194
State share
$20,734
Municipality share
$3,460

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

SMOKEY JOE'S — gaming performance, Pontoon Beach, Madison County, IL — The Gameset