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Harvard · McHenry County · IL · 6 terminals

IGB license 240701428 · Operator: Kings Entertainment LLC (as of August 2026)

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High play · high holdMomentum +27%YoY +71%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI

$90,740

net terminal income · this month

Win per unit

$488

per machine · per day

Terminals

machines in service

Annual NTI

$688,036

trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine

$15,123

monthly · per terminal

state median $4,345/mo

95th pct of 8,611 IL locations

#2 of 20 in Harvard

Hold

11.2%

this month

state median 9.4% · above

80th pct of 8,611 IL locations

80th pct of 20 in Harvard

Cycle rate

2.52×

this month

state median 2.60× · engagement

39th pct of 8,611 IL locations

45th pct of 20 in Harvard

Play / machine

$135.2K

monthly · per terminal

state median $47.1K/mo

92nd pct of 8,611 IL locations

95th pct of 20 in Harvard

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$10,014/mo vs the $5,109 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

$90,740

Gaming tax

−$31,759

After tax

$58,981

Your take-home

$29,490

your 50% this month

Gaming tax$31,759 · 35%Operator's 50%$29,490 · 32%Yours, 50%$29,490 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $29,490 to you and $29,490 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 · high hold

Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.

What an operator sees: An operator reads this as a proven, high-value gameset and will compete hard on service to win it.

NTI/machine — 95th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month

In Harvard — #2 of 20 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)

Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 94th percentile of 6,794

Your gameset — you among your Harvard peers19 peer locations

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your gameset a Harvard peer (anonymized) statewide median

1 peer location sits beyond the axis range and is drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Harvard 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 $90,740

2025

2026

latest month up vs prior down vs prior Harvard median ($24,492)

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.52× · 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 $488 · Harvard median $132

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

Hold % by monthlatest 11.2% · 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 monthAugust 2026 up 71% on a year earlier

September 2025 – August 2026Sep 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 +14% this year vs +78% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Harvard's total gaming income is +12% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +71% 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)

$488/day

per machine · per day · Harvard median $132/day · +270%

WPU momentum

+28%

last 3 months $403/day vs prior 3 $315/day

Seasonality

August peak

strongest August ($71,854 avg) · softest September ($20,067 avg)

Revenue steadiness

variable

±29% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Kings Entertainment 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

Avg NTI / Location

$45,702

Avg NTI / Terminal

$8,309

Total NTI

$274,211

Year over year

Your NTI is +71% up year over year, outpacing the McHenry County market (+9%).

Your Location

+71%

$90,740 vs $52,968 (vs a year ago)

The market (McHenry County)

+9%

typical Location: $33,734 vs $31,007

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $15,123 in August 2026 — the 95th 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 Harvard, that's #2 of 20 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 11.2% — above the 9.4% state median. 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 2.52× 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 · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.

•After $31,759 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $29,490 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.

•Recent momentum is building — +27% against your trailing average.

•Terminal Operator Kings Entertainment LLC runs 6 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 August 2026 report detail

Amount played

$811,356

Amount won

$720,616

Net wager

$90,740

Funds in

$322,373

Funds out

$231,633

Net terminal income

$90,740

NTI tax

$31,759

State share

$27,217

Municipality share

$4,542

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