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Tuscola · Douglas County · IL · 5 terminals
IGB license 240701710 · Operator: Midwest Electronics Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +40%YoY +175%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$33,363
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$215
per machine · per day
Terminals
5
machines in service
Annual NTI
$250,405
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$6,673
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
69th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#4 of 14 in Tuscola
Hold
12.3%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
89th pct of 8,611 IL locations
86th pct of 14 in Tuscola
Cycle rate
2.40×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
25th pct of 8,611 IL locations
57th pct of 14 in Tuscola
Play / machine
$54.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
56th pct of 8,611 IL locations
64th pct of 14 in Tuscola

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,547 of them), your NTI/machine is +$4,432/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
$33,363
Gaming tax
−$11,677
After tax
$21,686
Your take-home
$10,843
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$11,677 · 35%Operator's 50%$10,843 · 32%Yours, 50%$10,843 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,843 to you and $10,843 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 — 69th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Tuscola — #4 of 14 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 89th percentile of 1,547
Your gameset — you among your Tuscola peers13 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Tuscola peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each gray dot is another Tuscola 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 $33,363
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Tuscola median ($17,620)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.40× · 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 $215 · Tuscola median $117
your WPU (per machine, per day) Tuscola median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 12.3% · 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 175% 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 +20% this year vs −36% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

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

Your own gameset is +175% 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)
$215/day
per machine · per day · Tuscola median $117/day · +85%
WPU momentum
+24%
last 3 months $188/day vs prior 3 $152/day
Seasonality
July peak
strongest July ($23,378 avg) · softest February ($8,728 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±33% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Midwest Electronics 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
323
Avg NTI / Location
$29,195
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,473
Total NTI
$9,429,892

Year over year

Your NTI is +175% up year over year, outpacing the Douglas County market (+6%).

Your Location
+175%
$33,363 vs $12,136 (vs a year ago)
The market (Douglas County)
+6%
typical Location: $22,274 vs $20,957

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $6,673 in August 2026 — the 69th 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 Tuscola, that's #4 of 14 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 12.3% — 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 2.40× 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 $11,677 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,843 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +40% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Midwest Electronics Gaming, LLC runs 323 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
$271,018
Amount won
$237,655
Net wager
$33,363
Funds in
$112,851
Funds out
$79,488
Net terminal income
$33,363
NTI tax
$11,677
State share
$10,007
Municipality share
$1,670

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

Bookies Tavern — gaming performance, Tuscola, Douglas County, IL — The Gameset