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The popular streamer Trainwreck returned from a nearly two month absence and ended up losing around $10 million gambling.
The Stake.com promoter, real name Tyler Faraz Niknam, also declined a loan request from fellow creator Adin Ross during a live broadcast.
Trainwreck then claimed he missed out on roughly $2 billion over the past five years by choosing not to promote gambling affiliate codes.
GamblingNews.com reported on this literal trainwreck.
The streamer also brought fellow creator Adin Ross onto a live call during the broadcast. The conversation quickly turned awkward when Ross asked to borrow money. Trainwreck declined immediately, saying he had lost more than $10 million in just two days and could not help financially.
He added that while he still considers Ross a friend, he is not in a position to lend money. At the time of the call, Trainwreck was streaming high-stakes gameplay on Pragmatic Play’s slot title The Dog House, betting $1,000 per spin.
Niknam is best known for live-streaming high-stakes online gambling, especially slots and roulette, often betting tens of thousands of dollars per hand.
Content that includes both his wins and losses has become the main driver of his popularity and brand.
Before shedding a tear for Trainwreck over his $10 million loss, that's just a drop in the bucket of what he claims to earn from sponsors.
He once posted he was paid around $360 million over ~16 months by gambling sponsors.
Niknam became an advisor and later partial owner of Kick, which has close ties to Stake. A Stake co-founder invested in Kick.
And Kick came under fire in recent days after it was revealed one of its now banned streamers, Braden Eric Peters, known as Clavicular, gunned down an alligator in the Florida Everglades. That incident could lead to a 5 year prison sentence.
As if that weren't bad enough, Clavicular was charged with a misdemeanor battery arrest Thursday in Fort Lauderdale over a February 2 Airbnb fight near Kissimmee, where authorities say he instigated a clash between his girlfriend Violet Lentz and another woman for stream views.
Lentz turned herself into authorities on Sunday.
Violet spent hours behind bars ... getting released early Monday at 1:45 AM on $1K bond.
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
