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Baby Back Blues BBQ

Plainfield · Will County · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 240702861 · Operator: Great American Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to growMomentum +34%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$10,138
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$82
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annual NTI
$73,859
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$2,534
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
30th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#4 of 12 in Plainfield
Hold
7.2%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
16th pct of 8,611 IL locations
25th pct of 12 in Plainfield
Cycle rate
3.35×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
97th pct of 8,611 IL locations
92nd pct of 12 in Plainfield
Play / machine
$35.0K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
38th pct of 8,611 IL locations
63rd pct of 12 in Plainfield

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,547 of them), your NTI/machine is +$294/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
$10,138
Gaming tax
−$3,548
After tax
$6,590
Your take-home
$3,295
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$3,548 · 35%Operator's 50%$3,295 · 32%Yours, 50%$3,295 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,295 to you and $3,295 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

Room to grow

Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.

What an operator sees: An operator sees upside: a gameset where a real service upgrade has room to move the numbers.

NTI/machine — 30th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Plainfield — #4 of 12 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 56th percentile of 1,547
Your gameset — you among your Plainfield peers11 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Plainfield 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 Plainfield 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 $12,076
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Plainfield median ($6,675) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 3.35× · 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 $82 · Plainfield median $50
your WPU (per machine, per day) Plainfield median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 7.2% · 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.

Your town's market

Plainfield's total gaming income is +53% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

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)
$82/day
per machine · per day · Plainfield median $50/day · +63%
WPU momentum
+8%
last 3 months $76/day vs prior 3 $70/day
Seasonality
May peak
strongest May ($12,076 avg) · softest September (-$2,510 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±69% month-to-month swing, trailing 12
Gameset change
5 → 4 terminals
over the last 12 months

Your operator

Great American 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
12
Avg NTI / Location
$61,648
Avg NTI / Terminal
$11,041
Total NTI
$739,778

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $2,534 in August 2026 — the 30th 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 Plainfield, that's #4 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 7.2% — 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 3.35× 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.
•Room to grow — Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.
•After $3,548 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,295 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +34% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Great American Gaming, LLC runs 12 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
$139,972
Amount won
$129,835
Net wager
$10,138
Funds in
$41,759
Funds out
$31,621
Net terminal income
$10,138
NTI tax
$3,548
State share
$3,041
Municipality share
$507

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