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Secret Slots Hideaway LLC

East Gillespie · Macoupin County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 260701252 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC
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Room to grow

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$723
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$4
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$8,675
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$120
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
0th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#77 of 79 in Macoupin County
Hold
3.9%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
2nd pct of 8,629 IL locations
4th pct of 79 in Macoupin County
Cycle rate
2.46×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
32nd pct of 8,629 IL locations
11th pct of 79 in Macoupin County
Play / machine
$3.1K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
1st pct of 8,629 IL locations
4th pct of 79 in Macoupin County

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is −$4,868/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
$723
Gaming tax
−$253
After tax
$470
Your take-home
$235
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$253 · 35%Operator's 50%$235 · 33%Yours, 50%$235 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $235 to you and $235 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 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Macoupin County — #77 of 79 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 0th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Macoupin County peers78 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Macoupin County peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Macoupin 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 $15,410
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Macoupin County median ($15,410)

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

Your town's market

East Gillespie's total gaming income is +15% 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)
$4/day
per machine · per day · Macoupin County median $86/day · −95%
At the Macoupin County median this gameset would add roughly $176,239 a year.

Your operator

J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC
Locations
2,571
Avg NTI / Location
$31,971
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,578
Total NTI
$82,196,548

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $120 in September 2026 — the 0th 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 Macoupin County, that's #77 of 79 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 3.9% — 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 2.46× 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 $253 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $235 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2571 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$18,604
Amount won
$17,881
Net wager
$723
Funds in
$7,569
Funds out
$6,847
Net terminal income
$723
NTI tax
$253
State share
$217
Municipality share
$36

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

Secret Slots Hideaway LLC — gaming performance, East Gillespie, Macoupin County, IL — The Gameset