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Hoffman Estates · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 260701059 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc.
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Efficient gameset

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$12,967
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$72
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$155,607
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$2,161
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
26th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#28 of 32 in Hoffman Estates
Hold
11.8%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
86th pct of 8,629 IL locations
84th pct of 32 in Hoffman Estates
Cycle rate
2.22×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
10th pct of 8,629 IL locations
16th pct of 32 in Hoffman Estates
Play / machine
$18.4K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
18th pct of 8,629 IL locations
9th pct of 32 in Hoffman Estates

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is −$2,827/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
$12,967
Gaming tax
−$4,539
After tax
$8,429
Your take-home
$4,214
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$4,539 · 35%Operator's 50%$4,214 · 32%Yours, 50%$4,214 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $4,214 to you and $4,214 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 — 26th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Hoffman Estates — #28 of 32 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 19th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Hoffman Estates peers31 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Hoffman Estates 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 Hoffman Estates 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 $39,369
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Hoffman Estates median ($39,369)

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

Your town's market

Hoffman Estates'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)
$72/day
per machine · per day · Hoffman Estates median $219/day · −67%
At the Hoffman Estates median this gameset would add roughly $316,817 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 $2,161 in September 2026 — the 26th 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 Hoffman Estates, that's #28 of 32 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 11.8% — 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 2.22× 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 $4,539 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $4,214 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
$110,224
Amount won
$97,257
Net wager
$12,967
Funds in
$49,606
Funds out
$36,639
Net terminal income
$12,967
NTI tax
$4,539
State share
$3,890
Municipality share
$649

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

Cafe Win — gaming performance, Hoffman Estates, Cook County, IL — The Gameset