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THE HAPPY SPOT/ THE GROVE

Deer Grove · Whiteside County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 260700008 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc.
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Efficient gameset

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$6,503
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$36
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$78,039
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$1,084
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
11th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#90 of 104 in Whiteside County
Hold
23.6%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
100th pct of 8,629 IL locations
99th pct of 104 in Whiteside County
Cycle rate
2.09×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
5th pct of 8,629 IL locations
5th pct of 104 in Whiteside County
Play / machine
$4.6K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
2nd pct of 8,629 IL locations
2nd pct of 104 in Whiteside County

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is −$3,905/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
$6,503
Gaming tax
−$2,276
After tax
$4,227
Your take-home
$2,114
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$2,276 · 35%Operator's 50%$2,114 · 32%Yours, 50%$2,114 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $2,114 to you and $2,114 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

Efficient gameset

You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.

What an operator sees: An operator sees a well-run, efficient gameset — attractive, with upside if foot traffic can be grown.

NTI/machine — 11th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Whiteside County — #90 of 104 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 7th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Whiteside County peers103 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Whiteside County peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Whiteside 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 $18,806
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Whiteside County median ($18,806)

One month loaded so far. The trend fills in as more monthly IGB reports are imported.

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)
$36/day
per machine · per day · Whiteside County median $104/day · −65%
At the Whiteside County median this gameset would add roughly $147,630 a year.

Your operator

Gold Rush Amusements, Inc.
Locations
733
Avg NTI / Location
$36,176
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,303
Total NTI
$26,517,213

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $1,084 in September 2026 — the 11th 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 Whiteside County, that's #90 of 104 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 23.6% — 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 2.09× 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.
•Efficient gameset — You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.
•After $2,276 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $2,114 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. runs 733 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$27,610
Amount won
$21,107
Net wager
$6,503
Funds in
$13,212
Funds out
$6,708
Net terminal income
$6,503
NTI tax
$2,276
State share
$1,951
Municipality share
$325

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