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CLOUD 9 SMOKE SHOP

Spring Valley · Bureau County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 220701440 · Operator: Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to growMomentum −34%YoY −16%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$11,776
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$65
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$191,219
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$1,963
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
23rd pct of 8,629 IL locations
#9 of 11 in Spring Valley
Hold
7.2%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
15th pct of 8,629 IL locations
18th pct of 11 in Spring Valley
Cycle rate
2.67×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
60th pct of 8,629 IL locations
55th pct of 11 in Spring Valley
Play / machine
$27.4K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
30th pct of 8,629 IL locations
36th pct of 11 in Spring Valley

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is −$3,026/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
$11,776
Gaming tax
−$4,122
After tax
$7,655
Your take-home
$3,827
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$4,122 · 35%Operator's 50%$3,827 · 32%Yours, 50%$3,827 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,827 to you and $3,827 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 — 23rd percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Spring Valley — #9 of 11 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 16th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Spring Valley peers10 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Spring Valley peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each gray dot is another Spring Valley 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 $25,139
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Bureau County median ($14,362)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.67× · 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 $65 · Bureau County median $87
your WPU (per machine, per day) Bureau County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 7.2% · 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 down 16% 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 +47% this year vs +50% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Spring Valley's total gaming income is +6% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −16% 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)
$65/day
per machine · per day · Bureau County median $87/day · −25%
At the Bureau County median this gameset would add roughly $46,953 a year.
WPU momentum
−45%
last 3 months $57/day vs prior 3 $104/day
Seasonality
May peak
strongest May ($17,613 avg) · softest July ($9,486 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±27% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Accel Entertainment 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
2,679
Avg NTI / Location
$28,734
Avg NTI / Terminal
$4,975
Total NTI
$76,978,768

Year over year

Your NTI is −3% down year over year, trailing the Bureau County market (+8%).

Your Location
−3%
$191,219 vs $196,717 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Bureau County)
+8%
typical Location: $20,034 vs $18,552

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $1,963 in September 2026 — the 23rd 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 Spring Valley, that's #9 of 11 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 7.2% — 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 2.67× 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 $4,122 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,827 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −34% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC runs 2679 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$164,492
Amount won
$152,715
Net wager
$11,776
Funds in
$61,591
Funds out
$49,815
Net terminal income
$11,776
NTI tax
$4,122
State share
$3,532
Municipality share
$589

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

CLOUD 9 SMOKE SHOP — gaming performance, Spring Valley, Bureau County, IL — The Gameset