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Poplar Grove · Boone County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 200701554 · Operator: Empire Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to growMomentum +5%YoY +25%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$22,229
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$124
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$247,624
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$3,705
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
45th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#5 of 9 in Poplar Grove
Hold
8.6%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
34th pct of 8,629 IL locations
22nd pct of 9 in Poplar Grove
Cycle rate
2.56×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
45th pct of 8,629 IL locations
67th pct of 9 in Poplar Grove
Play / machine
$43.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
48th pct of 8,629 IL locations
44th pct of 9 in Poplar Grove

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,284/mo vs the $4,988 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (September 2026)

NTI this month
$22,229
Gaming tax
−$7,780
After tax
$14,449
Your take-home
$7,225
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$7,780 · 35%Operator's 50%$7,225 · 32%Yours, 50%$7,225 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $7,225 to you and $7,225 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 — 45th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Poplar Grove — #5 of 9 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 37th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Poplar Grove peers8 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Poplar Grove 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 Poplar Grove 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 $30,871
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Boone County median ($28,662) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.56× · state median 2.59×
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 $124 · Boone County median $159
your WPU (per machine, per day) Boone County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.6% · 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.

This year against last, by monthSeptember 2026 up 25% on a year earlier
October 2025 – September 2026October 2024 – September 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: August → September moved +5% this year vs −10% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Poplar Grove's total gaming income is +9% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +25% 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)
$124/day
per machine · per day · Boone County median $159/day · −22%
At the Boone County median this gameset would add roughly $77,185 a year.
WPU momentum
+5%
last 3 months $108/day vs prior 3 $102/day
Seasonality
April peak
strongest April ($19,245 avg) · softest January ($11,291 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±21% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Empire 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
69
Avg NTI / Location
$42,247
Avg NTI / Terminal
$7,041
Total NTI
$2,915,037

Year over year

Your NTI is +18% up year over year, outpacing the Boone County market (+13%).

Your Location
+18%
$247,624 vs $209,877 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Boone County)
+13%
typical Location: $25,908 vs $22,927

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $3,705 in September 2026 — the 45th percentile of 8,629 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 Poplar Grove, that's #5 of 9 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 8.6% — 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 2.56× 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 $7,780 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $7,225 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +5% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Empire Gaming, LLC runs 69 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$259,436
Amount won
$237,207
Net wager
$22,229
Funds in
$101,496
Funds out
$79,266
Net terminal income
$22,229
NTI tax
$7,780
State share
$6,668
Municipality share
$1,113

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