The Twitch streamer Tyler “Trainwreck” Niknam (31) is somewhat of the top gamer on Twitch. He became huge on the streaming channel with gambling streams and reportedly earned 360 million $ from a deal. Now that Twitch has banned “his casino,” Stake, Trainwreck is active in sports betting and shows a golden touch.
Where do we know Trainwreck from?
- The 31-year-old Trainwreck was a well-known but not overly successful Twitch streamer for years, playing a bit of WoW, a bit of Call of Duty, a bit of CS:GO. His average viewer count slowly but steadily rose from 300 (2016) to 6,000 (2019).
- In 2021, Trainwreck’s channel exploded when he fully committed to gambling: An exclusive deal with the crypto-casino “Stake” allegedly brought him a princely income: He reportedly earned 360 million US dollars in 16 months. Furthermore, he invested crazily in cryptocurrencies and lost millions of US dollars live on stream while gambling.
- However, in 2022 came the break: Twitch significantly restricted casino streams in October. This also affects Trainwreck: In the last 90 days, he has lost almost a quarter of his average viewers and streams much less than before.
Trainwreck is a tough guy who knows no friends and can end careers with a tweet, as streamer Mizkif painfully had to experience:
Trainwreck wins 1.56 million $ with a 25,000 $ bet
This is what Trainwreck is making headlines with: Trainwreck loves to gamble. In a tweet on 22.11, he showed his betting slip for day 3 of the football World Cup.
According to the slip, Trainwreck earned exactly 1,569,329.29 US dollars with a bet of 25,651.09 $. So he multiplied his stake by a factor of 61.39:
He placed a 4-fold bet on the games of the football World Cup and guessed quite crazily:
- He correctly predicted the victory of Saudi Arabia against Argentina
- Predicted the draw between Denmark and Tunisia
- Also bet that Mexico would draw against Poland
- Only with the bet France against Australia did everything go as planned, and France won.
According to Trainwreck, he also secured the slip with additional alternative slips:
These are the reactions: Even with football betting, it works like with gambling on the one-armed bandit for Trainwreck:
- He wins and celebrates himself, tells everyone how much he enjoys the victory, but at the same time warns against gambling since you can only lose.
- Seconds after the celebration, he explains how terrible gambling actually is and how much he has lost in total.
- The viewers react like they do on Twitch: They hit him up for money. If he wins so much, he should surely give something back.
What’s next for him? It looks like Trainwreck doesn’t want to accept that Twitch has banned his deal with Stake.
Trainwreck plans to establish his own streaming service in December 2022, then he wants to gamble with high stakes again.
By the way, we also know the trick of warning against gambling while simultaneously gambling like crazy extensively from the German Twitch community. As long as a “game” is hot, there’s investment; when it gets cold, you can always reconsider:
