Six Strings Club

Bloomington · McLean County · IL · 4 terminals

IGB license 250701982 · Operator: Midwest Electronics Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)

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Room to grow

Your performance · September 2026

NTI

$2,804

net terminal income · this month

Win per unit

$23

per machine · per day

Terminals

machines in service

Annualized NTI

$33,642

est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine

$701

monthly · per terminal

state median $4,170/mo

6th pct of 8,629 IL locations

#62 of 62 in Bloomington

Hold

3.7%

this month

state median 9.4% · below

2nd pct of 8,629 IL locations

2nd pct of 62 in Bloomington

Cycle rate

2.30×

this month

state median 2.59× · engagement

15th pct of 8,629 IL locations

12th pct of 62 in Bloomington

Play / machine

$18.7K

monthly · per terminal

state median $45.5K/mo

19th pct of 8,629 IL locations

10th pct of 62 in Bloomington

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,546 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,478/mo vs the $2,179 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

$2,804

Gaming tax

−$981

After tax

$1,822

Your take-home

$911

your 50% this month

Gaming tax$981 · 35%Operator's 50%$911 · 32%Yours, 50%$911 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $911 to you and $911 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 — 6th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month

In Bloomington — #62 of 62 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)

Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 14th percentile of 1,546

Your gameset — you among your Bloomington peers61 peer locations

play per machine →

your gameset a Bloomington 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 Bloomington 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 $32,841

2026

latest month up vs prior down vs prior Bloomington median ($32,841)

3 months loaded — partial history. The trend fills in as more monthly IGB reports are imported.

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.30× · 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 $23 · Bloomington median $219

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

Hold % by monthlatest 3.7% · 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

Bloomington's total gaming income is +13% 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)

$23/day

per machine · per day · Bloomington median $219/day · −89%

At the Bloomington median this gameset would add roughly $281,634 a year.

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

$28,368

Avg NTI / Terminal

$5,299

Total NTI

$9,162,764

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $701 in September 2026 — the 6th 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 Bloomington, that's #62 of 62 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 3.7% — 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 2.30× 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 $981 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $911 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.

•Terminal Operator Midwest Electronics Gaming, LLC runs 323 Locations in our data.

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Full September 2026 report detail

Amount played

$74,815

Amount won

$72,011

Net wager

$2,804

Funds in

$32,588

Funds out

$29,784

Net terminal income

$2,804

NTI tax

$981

State share

$841

Municipality share

$140

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