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Azul Cantina

Sterling · Whiteside County · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 260701601 · Operator: Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC
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Efficient gameset

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$4,068
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$34
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$48,811
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$1,017
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
10th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#31 of 35 in Sterling
Hold
19.9%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
100th pct of 8,629 IL locations
97th pct of 35 in Sterling
Cycle rate
2.11×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
5th pct of 8,629 IL locations
9th pct of 35 in Sterling
Play / machine
$5.1K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
2nd pct of 8,629 IL locations
1st pct of 35 in Sterling

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,546 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,162/mo vs the $2,179 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
$4,068
Gaming tax
−$1,424
After tax
$2,644
Your take-home
$1,322
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$1,424 · 35%Operator's 50%$1,322 · 33%Yours, 50%$1,322 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,322 to you and $1,322 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 — 10th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Sterling — #31 of 35 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 22nd percentile of 1,546
Your gameset — you among your Sterling peers34 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Sterling 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 Sterling 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 $19,381
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Sterling median ($19,381)

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

Your town's market

Sterling's total gaming income is −2% 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)
$34/day
per machine · per day · Sterling median $108/day · −69%
At the Sterling median this gameset would add roughly $106,240 a year.

Your operator

Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC
Locations
2,679
Avg NTI / Location
$28,734
Avg NTI / Terminal
$4,975
Total NTI
$76,978,768

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $1,017 in September 2026 — the 10th 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 Sterling, that's #31 of 35 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 19.9% — 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 2.11× 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 $1,424 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $1,322 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC runs 2679 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$20,409
Amount won
$16,341
Net wager
$4,068
Funds in
$9,663
Funds out
$5,595
Net terminal income
$4,068
NTI tax
$1,424
State share
$1,220
Municipality share
$204

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

Azul Cantina — gaming performance, Sterling, Whiteside County, IL — The Gameset