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Saylor Mick's Pizza & Pub

Spring Grove · McHenry County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 220703626 · Operator: Illinois Gaming Investors LLC (as of August 2026)
High play · lower holdMomentum −13%YoY +24%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$30,500
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$169
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$557,490
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,083
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
58th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#5 of 12 in Spring Grove
Hold
7.5%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
18th pct of 8,629 IL locations
25th pct of 12 in Spring Grove
Cycle rate
2.21×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
9th pct of 8,629 IL locations
50th pct of 12 in Spring Grove
Play / machine
$68.0K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
68th pct of 8,629 IL locations
75th pct of 12 in Spring Grove

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$95/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
$30,500
Gaming tax
−$10,675
After tax
$19,825
Your take-home
$9,913
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$10,675 · 35%Operator's 50%$9,913 · 32%Yours, 50%$9,913 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $9,913 to you and $9,913 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

High play · lower hold

Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.

What an operator sees: An operator sees busy machines with margin headroom — a gameset where better titles and merchandising pay off.

NTI/machine — 58th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Spring Grove — #5 of 12 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 51st percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Spring Grove peers11 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Spring 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 Spring 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 $61,728
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Spring Grove median ($20,508)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.21× · 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 $169 · Spring Grove median $125
your WPU (per machine, per day) Spring Grove median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 7.5% · 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 24% 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 −44% this year vs −29% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Spring Grove's total gaming income is +15% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +24% 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)
$169/day
per machine · per day · Spring Grove median $125/day · +35%
WPU momentum
−6%
last 3 months $230/day vs prior 3 $244/day
Seasonality
December peak
strongest December ($53,207 avg) · softest September ($27,742 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±18% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Illinois Gaming Investors 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
402
Avg NTI / Location
$28,019
Avg NTI / Terminal
$4,966
Total NTI
$11,263,581

Year over year

Your NTI is +35% up year over year, outpacing the McHenry County market (+9%).

Your Location
+35%
$557,490 vs $413,891 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (McHenry County)
+9%
typical Location: $33,986 vs $31,119

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,083 in September 2026 — the 58th 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 Grove, that's #5 of 12 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 7.5% — 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 2.21× 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.
•High play · lower hold — Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
•After $10,675 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $9,913 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −13% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Illinois Gaming Investors LLC runs 402 Locations in our data.
You're ahead of your market.

A gameset doing these numbers is the one Operators compete hardest for — and most owners never find out what that competition is worth, because they never put it out to bid.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$408,138
Amount won
$377,638
Net wager
$30,500
Funds in
$184,675
Funds out
$154,175
Net terminal income
$30,500
NTI tax
$10,675
State share
$9,149
Municipality share
$1,527

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

Saylor Mick's Pizza & Pub — gaming performance, Spring Grove, McHenry County, IL — The Gameset