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BLACKFISH ROTARY SUSHI AND BAR

Buffalo Grove · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 250701242 · Operator: Illinois Gaming Entertainment LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +10%YoY +1393%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$50,139
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$279
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$466,777
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$8,356
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
79th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#3 of 11 in Buffalo Grove
Hold
10.9%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
77th pct of 8,629 IL locations
73rd pct of 11 in Buffalo Grove
Cycle rate
2.56×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
45th pct of 8,629 IL locations
50th pct of 11 in Buffalo Grove
Play / machine
$76.5K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
73rd pct of 8,629 IL locations
77th pct of 11 in Buffalo Grove

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$3,368/mo vs the $4,988 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (September 2026)

NTI this month
$50,139
Gaming tax
−$17,549
After tax
$32,590
Your take-home
$16,295
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$17,549 · 35%Operator's 50%$16,295 · 32%Yours, 50%$16,295 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $16,295 to you and $16,295 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

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 — 79th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Buffalo Grove — #3 of 11 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 75th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Buffalo Grove peers10 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Buffalo Grove 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 Buffalo Grove 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 $50,139
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Cook County median ($35,537)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.56× · state median 2.59×
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 $279 · Cook County median $204
your WPU (per machine, per day) Cook County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 10.9% · 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

Buffalo Grove's total gaming income is −4% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +1393% 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)
$279/day
per machine · per day · Cook County median $204/day · +36%
WPU momentum
+10%
last 3 months $234/day vs prior 3 $212/day
Seasonality
January peak
strongest January ($45,771 avg) · softest October ($18,261 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±21% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Illinois Gaming 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
11
Avg NTI / Location
$62,096
Avg NTI / Terminal
$10,349
Total NTI
$683,061

Year over year

Your NTI is +1393% up year over year, outpacing the Cook County market (+5%).

Your Location
+1393%
$50,139 vs $3,359 (vs a year ago)
The market (Cook County)
+5%
typical Location: $42,751 vs $40,728

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $8,356 in September 2026 — the 79th percentile of 8,629 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 Buffalo Grove, that's #3 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 10.9% — 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 2.56× 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 $17,549 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $16,295 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +10% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Illinois Gaming Entertainment LLC runs 11 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 September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$458,941
Amount won
$408,802
Net wager
$50,139
Funds in
$179,450
Funds out
$129,311
Net terminal income
$50,139
NTI tax
$17,549
State share
$15,039
Municipality share
$2,509

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

BLACKFISH ROTARY SUSHI AND BAR — gaming performance, Buffalo Grove, Cook County, IL — The Gameset