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Magic Pepper

Niles · Cook County · IL · 5 terminals
IGB license 250702862 · Operator: Kings Entertainment LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to grow

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$461
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$3
per machine · per day
Terminals
5
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$5,529
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$92
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
0th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#27 of 27 in Niles
Hold
2.7%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
1st pct of 8,611 IL locations
4th pct of 27 in Niles
Cycle rate
2.94×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
84th pct of 8,611 IL locations
74th pct of 27 in Niles
Play / machine
$3.4K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
1st pct of 8,611 IL locations
0th pct of 27 in Niles

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,547 of them), your NTI/machine is −$2,148/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
$461
Gaming tax
−$161
After tax
$299
Your take-home
$150
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$161 · 35%Operator's 50%$150 · 33%Yours, 50%$150 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $150 to you and $150 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 — 0th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Niles — #27 of 27 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 1st percentile of 1,547
Your gameset — you among your Niles peers26 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Niles 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 Niles 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 $52,137
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Niles median ($52,137)

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

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.94× · 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 $3 · Niles median $280
your WPU (per machine, per day) Niles median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 2.7% · 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

Niles's total gaming income is +6% 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)
$3/day
per machine · per day · Niles median $280/day · −99%
At the Niles median this gameset would add roughly $515,846 a year.
Gameset change
6 → 5 terminals
over the last 12 months

Your operator

Kings 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
6
Avg NTI / Location
$45,702
Avg NTI / Terminal
$8,309
Total NTI
$274,211

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $92 in August 2026 — the 0th 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 Niles, that's #27 of 27 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 2.7% — 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 2.94× 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 $161 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $150 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Kings Entertainment LLC runs 6 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$17,248
Amount won
$16,788
Net wager
$460
Funds in
$5,865
Funds out
$5,404
Net terminal income
$461
NTI tax
$161
State share
$138
Municipality share
$23

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