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The Dive Bar

Elgin · Kane County · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 240702204 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +26%YoY +99%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$25,466
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$205
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annual NTI
$214,915
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$6,366
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
66th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#11 of 33 in Elgin
Hold
12.1%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
88th pct of 8,611 IL locations
91st pct of 33 in Elgin
Cycle rate
2.42×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
27th pct of 8,611 IL locations
33rd pct of 33 in Elgin
Play / machine
$52.5K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
55th pct of 8,611 IL locations
52nd pct of 33 in Elgin

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,547 of them), your NTI/machine is +$4,126/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
$25,466
Gaming tax
−$8,913
After tax
$16,553
Your take-home
$8,276
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$8,913 · 35%Operator's 50%$8,276 · 32%Yours, 50%$8,276 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $8,276 to you and $8,276 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 — 66th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Elgin — #11 of 33 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 88th percentile of 1,547
Your gameset — you among your Elgin peers32 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Elgin 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 Elgin 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 $27,306
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Elgin median ($27,306) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.42× · 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 $205 · Elgin median $149
your WPU (per machine, per day) Elgin median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 12.1% · 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 99% 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.

Your town's market

Elgin's total gaming income is +10% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +99% 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)
$205/day
per machine · per day · Elgin median $149/day · +38%
WPU momentum
+26%
last 3 months $187/day vs prior 3 $149/day
Seasonality
May peak
strongest May ($22,332 avg) · softest September ($12,599 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±23% 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 +99% up year over year, outpacing the Kane County market (+6%).

Your Location
+99%
$25,466 vs $12,767 (vs a year ago)
The market (Kane County)
+6%
typical Location: $37,352 vs $35,219

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $6,366 in August 2026 — the 66th 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 Elgin, that's #11 of 33 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 12.1% — 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 2.42× 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 $8,913 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $8,276 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +26% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. runs 729 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
$210,077
Amount won
$184,611
Net wager
$25,466
Funds in
$86,933
Funds out
$61,468
Net terminal income
$25,466
NTI tax
$8,913
State share
$7,639
Municipality share
$1,275

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

The Dive Bar — gaming performance, Elgin, Kane County, IL — The Gameset