Twitch Streamer Mitch Jones Loses Nearly $50k in a Week from Gambling

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Popular Twitch streamers are known to gamble in front of a live audience, including personalities that gamble with large sums of money like Adin Ross, Trainwrecks, and xQc. Long-time Twitch streamer Mitch Jones is one content creator who has come clean about spending nearly $50,000 on gambling in just one week.

Gambling is one of the many avenues that Twitch streamers can take their content based on its randomized and social nature, with the occasional sponsorships from gambling websites making it more sustainable for some popular content creators. Although well-known Twitch livestreamers often put a plethora of money on the line during casino games or slot streams with viewers who anticipate how well the risk will pay off, Mitch Jones did his gambling off camera. During a Twitch broadcast on August 23, the veteran livestreamer admitted to his audience that although he had managed to save nearly $50,000 from his streaming and music, he had whittled it down to only $5,000 through one week of gambling.

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According to Jones, he gave his final $5,000 to his manager for safekeeping under the pretext that they wouldn't return the money because of the addiction to gambling that Jones had formed like Twitch streamer xQc. «I told him to not give it to me,» said Jones during a recent Twitch broadcast, «so I still have $5,000 to live off of, so we're good.» Beyond talking about how much money he had gambled, Jones also suggested that if he had $1 million, it would have likely been lost the same way, and he'd be left with $5,000 to live off with the help of his manager regardless. The solemn Twitch clip of Jones admitting to his gambling losses concludes with the