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Bolingbrook · Will County · IL · 6 terminals

IGB license 250702490 · Operator: Gaming Productions, LLC (as of August 2026)

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High play · high holdMomentum +13%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI

$39,154

net terminal income · this month

Win per unit

$218

per machine · per day

Terminals

machines in service

Annualized NTI

$469,847

est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine

$6,526

monthly · per terminal

state median $4,170/mo

69th pct of 8,629 IL locations

#148 of 414 in Will County

Hold

9.5%

this month

state median 9.4% · above

51st pct of 8,629 IL locations

47th pct of 414 in Will County

Cycle rate

2.26×

this month

state median 2.59× · engagement

12th pct of 8,629 IL locations

14th pct of 414 in Will County

Play / machine

$69.0K

monthly · per terminal

state median $45.5K/mo

68th pct of 8,629 IL locations

63rd pct of 414 in Will County

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$1,537/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

$39,154

Gaming tax

−$13,704

After tax

$25,450

Your take-home

$12,725

your 50% this month

Gaming tax$13,704 · 35%Operator's 50%$12,725 · 32%Yours, 50%$12,725 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $12,725 to you and $12,725 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 — 69th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month

In Will County — #148 of 414 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)

Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 63rd percentile of 6,823

Your gameset — you among your Will County peers413 peer locations

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your gameset a Will County peer (anonymized) statewide median

21 peer locations sit beyond the axis range and are drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Will County 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 $41,825

2026

latest month up vs prior down vs prior Will County median ($26,689)

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

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.26× · 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 $218 · Will County median $149

your WPU (per machine, per day) Will County median WPU

Hold % by monthlatest 9.5% · 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.

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)

$218/day

per machine · per day · Will County median $149/day · +46%

Your operator

Gaming Productions, 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

Avg NTI / Location

$47,807

Avg NTI / Terminal

$8,213

Total NTI

$1,864,461

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $6,526 in September 2026 — the 69th 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 Will County, that's #148 of 414 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 9.5% — 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 2.26× 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 $13,704 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $12,725 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.

•Recent momentum is building — +13% against your trailing average.

•Terminal Operator Gaming Productions, LLC runs 39 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

$414,232

Amount won

$375,078

Net wager

$39,154

Funds in

$183,652

Funds out

$144,498

Net terminal income

$39,154

NTI tax

$13,704

State share

$11,744

Municipality share

$1,960

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