Not his lucky day
Adin Ross has returned to gambling on his stream after witnessing Trainwreck win a record-breaking $37.5m last week playing an online slot and xQc securing a $3m payout.
His session didn’t go too smoothly though, as an error during a live blackjack game with a dealer who was on his first day cost him a $10,000 win. Ross indicated that he wanted to stand with a hand value of 19 for his $10,000 main bet, with the dealer’s face-up card revealing a seven:
The problem was that the dealer either moved the Ace too quickly over the card reader scanner or else it glitched, which meant that the screen didn’t update with the correct hand value.
the hand was canceled and he wouldn’t get the $10,000 win
The dealer dealt himself a ten, which was attributed to Ross as a result of the error, giving the streamer a hand value on-screen of 18 instead of the actual 19. This mistake meant that the hand was canceled and he wouldn’t get the $10,000 win, despite the dealer only holding 17 versus 19 for the streamer.
Not the first time
Ross straight away told his chat to clip the stream and said that he would be demanding his money back from Stake. He said that if he wasn’t streaming, he would just be out of luck and wouldn’t have a leg to stand on to get the funds.
His account balance was $14,000 instead of the $34,000 he thought it should be after the round, with the dealer confirming it would take just a few minutes for his $10,000 stake to return to his account. The 24-year-old said that the dealer deserves to lose his job over the incident.
the live chat agent said a resolution may take 24 hours
He contacted the support team to try to resolve the issue. After submitting screenshots, the hand history, and a clip from Kick, the live chat agent said a resolution may take 24 hours.
It wasn’t the only time there was a mistake during the session. In the first of just three hands at that table, the same thing happened. The round wasn’t canceled as the manager stepped in and updated the on-screen values. Ross went on to lose that hand and his $10,000 stake.
Looking to gamble with real money
The session was on the Stake Social Casino, which is the free-to-play version of the gaming site. The money they were risking during the stream was Stake Cash, which is redeemable at a rate of 1 Stake Cash for $1.
Ross couldn’t use the real money version of the site as he was in the US
Ross couldn’t use the real-money version of the site as he was in the US, where Stake isn’t licensed to offer this service. After revealing his jealousy over Trainwreck and xQc’s big wins, Ross floated the idea of buying a private jet with a Starlink on it and hovering over the Bahamas just so he could gamble:
Ross lives in Miami, which is a 20-minute flight from the Bahamas on a private aircraft. Other streamers often go to Canada to gamble legally.
