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Joliet · IL · 6 terminals

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Room to grow

Your performance · December 2021

NTI

$4,610

net terminal income · this month

Win per unit

$25

per machine · per day

Terminals

machines in service

Annualized NTI

$55,322

est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine

$768

monthly · per terminal

state median $3,906/mo

7th pct of 7,643 IL locations

#69 of 77 in Joliet

Hold

5.8%

this month

state median 8.5% · below

10th pct of 7,643 IL locations

16th pct of 77 in Joliet

Cycle rate

3.18×

this month

state median 3.03× · engagement

65th pct of 7,643 IL locations

64th pct of 77 in Joliet

Play / machine

$13.3K

monthly · per terminal

state median $46.8K/mo

10th pct of 7,643 IL locations

16th pct of 77 in Joliet

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 4,569 of them), your NTI/machine is −$4,633/mo vs the $5,401 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (December 2021)

NTI this month

$4,610

Gaming tax

−$1,567

After tax

$3,043

Your take-home

$1,521

your 50% this month

Gaming tax$1,567 · 34%Operator's 50%$1,521 · 33%Yours, 50%$1,521 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,521 to you and $1,521 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 — 7th percentile of 7,643 Illinois locations this month

In Joliet — #69 of 77 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)

Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 2nd percentile of 4,569

Your gameset — you among your Joliet peers76 peer locations

play per machine →

your gameset a Joliet peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Joliet 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 $19,419

2021

latest month up vs prior down vs prior Joliet median ($19,419)

3 months loaded — partial history. The trend fills in as more monthly IGB reports are imported.

Cycle rate by monthlatest 3.18× · state median 3.03×

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 $25 · Joliet median $115

your WPU (per machine, per day) Joliet median WPU

Hold % by monthlatest 5.8% · state median 8.5%

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.

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)

$25/day

per machine · per day · Joliet median $115/day · −78%

At the Joliet median this gameset would add roughly $201,088 a year.

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $768 in December 2021 — the 7th percentile of 7,643 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 Joliet, that's #69 of 77 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 5.8% — below the 8.5% 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 3.18× 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 $1,567 in gaming tax, December 2021's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,521 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.

There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full December 2021 report detail

Amount played

$79,848

Amount won

$75,237

Net wager

$4,610

Funds in

$25,141

Funds out

$20,531

Net terminal income

$4,610

NTI tax

$1,567

State share

$1,337

Municipality share

$231

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