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Ogle County · Ogle County · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 240700541 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum +54%YoY +113%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$12,374
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$100
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annual NTI
$114,876
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$3,094
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
37th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#7 of 11 in Ogle County
Hold
5.0%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
4th pct of 8,611 IL locations
18th pct of 11 in Ogle County
Cycle rate
4.67×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
100th pct of 8,611 IL locations
91st pct of 11 in Ogle County
Play / machine
$61.7K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
62nd pct of 8,611 IL locations
91st pct of 11 in Ogle County

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,547 of them), your NTI/machine is +$854/mo vs the $2,240 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (August 2026)

NTI this month
$12,374
Gaming tax
−$4,331
After tax
$8,043
Your take-home
$4,022
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$4,331 · 35%Operator's 50%$4,022 · 33%Yours, 50%$4,022 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $4,022 to you and $4,022 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 — 37th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Ogle County — #7 of 11 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 63rd percentile of 1,547
Your gameset — you among your Ogle County peers10 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Ogle County peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each gray dot is another Ogle County 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 $20,206
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Ogle County median ($20,206) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 4.67× · state median 2.60×
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 $100 · Ogle County median $113
your WPU (per machine, per day) Ogle County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 5.0% · 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 monthAugust 2026 up 66% on a year earlier
June 2025 – August 2026Jun 2024 – August 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: July → August moved −19% this year vs +18% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Ogle County's total gaming income is +14% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +113% 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)
$100/day
per machine · per day · Ogle County median $113/day · −11%
At the Ogle County median this gameset would add roughly $19,015 a year.
WPU momentum
+54%
last 3 months $107/day vs prior 3 $69/day
Seasonality
June peak
strongest June ($15,761 avg) · softest December ($1,022 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±59% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Gold Rush Amusements, Inc.

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
729
Avg NTI / Location
$37,312
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,498
Total NTI
$27,200,241

Year over year

Your NTI is +113% up year over year, outpacing the Ogle County market (+7%).

Your Location
+113%
$12,374 vs $5,816 (vs a year ago)
The market (Ogle County)
+7%
typical Location: $24,838 vs $23,281

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $3,094 in August 2026 — the 37th percentile of 8,611 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 Ogle County, that's #7 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 5.0% — 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 4.67× 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.
•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 $4,331 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $4,022 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +54% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. runs 729 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$246,924
Amount won
$234,549
Net wager
$12,374
Funds in
$52,880
Funds out
$40,506
Net terminal income
$12,374
NTI tax
$4,331
State share
$3,712
Municipality share
$619

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

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