PopularTwitchstreamers 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-timeTwitchstreamer Mitch Jones is one content creator who has come clean about spending nearly $50,000 on gambling in just one week.
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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 formedlike 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 veteran livestreamer suggesting he’s a “true champion” in a sarcastic tone as he gazes into the distance.
Mitch Jones has been streaming on Twitch since before the platform received its name change and was known as Justin TV, amassing around 623,000 followers since his first broadcast in 2011. Jones stepped away from livestreaming briefly in August 2021 to focus exclusively on his music career, but he has returned to balance a mix of the two. When he isn’t communicating with his sizable community in the Just Chatting section of Twitch, which is how he communicated his mass losses, Jones is also regularly playingWorld of Warcraftahead of therelease of theDragonflightexpansion.
Many Twitch viewers took to the clip of Jones' gambling confession to express regret and worry about the veteran livestreamer and others that wager such sums, while a few suggested that poor mental health may have caused the binge he was on. Some other fans also took the opportunity to remind the Reddit community that spending upwards of $50,000 on gambling in a single week like Jones or bigger million-dollar losses like theone experienced by xQccan be ruinous for the average person and discouraged going the same route as Jones.
