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HAMILTON FOOD & LIQUOR LLC

Hamilton · Hancock County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 260700148 · Operator: Lucky Lincoln Gaming, LLC
High play · lower hold

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$47,648
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$256
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$571,772
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$7,941
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
76th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#4 of 25 in Hancock County
Hold
8.8%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
40th pct of 8,611 IL locations
32nd pct of 25 in Hancock County
Cycle rate
3.07×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
90th pct of 8,611 IL locations
72nd pct of 25 in Hancock County
Play / machine
$89.9K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
79th pct of 8,611 IL locations
92nd pct of 25 in Hancock County

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$2,832/mo vs the $5,109 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
$47,648
Gaming tax
$16,677
After tax
$30,971
Your take-home
$15,486
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$16,677 · 35%Operator's 50%$15,486 · 33%Yours, 50%$15,486 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $15,486 to you and $15,486 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 · lower hold

Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.

What an operator sees: An operator sees busy machines with margin headroom — a gameset where better titles and merchandising pay off.

NTI/machine — 76th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Hancock County — #4 of 25 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 72nd percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Hancock County peers24 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Hancock County peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Hancock 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 $47,648
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Hancock County median ($18,421)

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

Your town's market

Hamilton's total gaming income is +20% 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)
$256/day
per machine · per day · Hancock County median $99/day · +159%

Your operator

Lucky Lincoln Gaming, LLC
Locations
245
Avg NTI / Location
$38,898
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,637
Total NTI
$9,530,097

Takeaways

Each terminal earned about $7,941 in August 2026 — the 76th 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 Hancock County, that's #4 of 25 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 8.8% — 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 3.07× 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 · lower hold — Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
After $16,677 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $15,486 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
Terminal Operator Lucky Lincoln Gaming, LLC runs 245 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 August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$539,448
Amount won
$491,801
Net wager
$47,648
Funds in
$175,517
Funds out
$127,869
Net terminal income
$47,648
NTI tax
$16,677
State share
$14,292
Municipality share
$2,385

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