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Star 57 Diner

Tuscola · Douglas County · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 250702253 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to grow

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$2,876
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$23
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$34,515
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$719
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
6th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#14 of 14 in Tuscola
Hold
5.7%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
7th pct of 8,611 IL locations
7th pct of 14 in Tuscola
Cycle rate
2.29×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
15th pct of 8,611 IL locations
39th pct of 14 in Tuscola
Play / machine
$12.7K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
10th pct of 8,611 IL locations
21st pct of 14 in Tuscola

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,547 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,521/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
$2,876
Gaming tax
−$1,007
After tax
$1,870
Your take-home
$935
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$1,007 · 35%Operator's 50%$935 · 32%Yours, 50%$935 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $935 to you and $935 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 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Tuscola — #14 of 14 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 14th 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 $17,620
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Tuscola median ($17,620) shown, left out of rankings

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

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.29× · 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 $23 · Tuscola median $117
your WPU (per machine, per day) Tuscola median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 5.7% · 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

Tuscola's total gaming income is +15% 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 · Tuscola median $117/day · −80%
At the Tuscola median this gameset would add roughly $139,077 a year.

Your operator

J&J Ventures 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
2,551
Avg NTI / Location
$33,097
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,782
Total NTI
$84,429,268

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $719 in August 2026 — the 6th 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 #14 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 5.7% — 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 2.29× 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 $1,007 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $935 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2551 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

Operators bid on what they'd put in your gameset — newer cabinets, better titles, faster fixes. We'll turn your profile into an anonymized Listing they compete on.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$50,854
Amount won
$47,977
Net wager
$2,876
Funds in
$22,169
Funds out
$19,293
Net terminal income
$2,876
NTI tax
$1,007
State share
$863
Municipality share
$144

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