Trainwreckstv Hits $9.6M Jackpot as He Returns to Kick Streaming
The controversial live gaming streamer Trainwreckstv, or just Trainwrecks, has not only returned from self-imposed exile but done so in a spectacular fashion, hitting a $9.6 million jackpot.
Trainwreckstv is live streaming his online slot habit again. © Sergey Zolkin, Unsplash
Key Facts:
- Tylar Faraz Nicknam is known to his Kick followers as Trainwreck
- He’s a well-known crypto casino streamer, first on Twitch and now Kick.
- He has more than 380,000 followers on the streaming service.
- Trainwreck was an early adopter and is a partial owner of Kick.
Many gamblers of a certain age will be intimately familiar with Trainwreck; after all, he has been streaming content for over ten years and has been one of the most prominent advocates of offshore crypto casino sites since Twitch banned them in 2022.
He claims to have been paid more than 350 million dollars over the past few years by these casinos. He is also an early promoter and apparent investor in Kick, which has grown exponentially and, by some estimates, has annual revenue of over $170 million. For March 2025, it had about 315 million watched hours of content and an average viewership of over 400,000 at any given time.
As with many streamers, however, he has courted controversy over the years, picking up several bans from various streaming services for misogynistic comments and hot takes. This didn’t harm his reputation in any way, and he racked up impressive viewership numbers, with over 35 million YouTube views to date.
He also garnered a massive following during the 2020 presidential election and had more than 600,000 watched hours on election night alone, which is a staggering amount by any reckoning.
However, since leaving Twitch in a huff over their ban on gambling advertising from offshore grey market sites several years ago, he has become much more well-known for his gambling antics.
Most days, you can stream him playing slots on his favorite Curacaoan cryptocurrency casino for high stakes on Kick.
Many have questioned his multimillion-dollar binge losses in as many as 30 hours of straight play and his occasionally huge wins. In one session alone in February, he appeared to have won more than 12 million dollars playing NoLimit City’s Duck Hunter with a 30,000x payout on his $400 spin, as well as a $6 million win on another NoLimit City classic Loner in the space of just 13 hours.
He took a recent three-month hiatus, promising to return June 1st, which led to months of speculation online about both his mental and physical health, but he returned as promised and has been on a tear ever since.
His huge win of $9.6 million with a $240 bet and a 40,000x jackpot on NoLimit City’s Munchies and its man-eating antagonist Fluffers only further fueled his need for action.
He was back several days later, playing another NoLimit City hit called Kill ’em All. He spent almost $150,000 to enter into the highest-paying bonus rounds, which, in this case, involve video game-inspired Boss Fights.
He caught a lucky streak getting past some of the easier Bosses and then hit a $240,000 dropped chest, which tripled and then set off all kinds of linked bonuses and jackpots, which left everyone a bit confused about the actual size of the win until the final jackpot line said $11.9 million.
As a friendly reminder, games like Munchies and Kill ’em All are exclusive to crypto-friendly platforms and unavailable on most licensed US online casinos. While Trainwrecks is pretty clear that no one should emulate his play style, that is not what responsible gaming looks like.
Whether you see him as some sort of gambling savant, a sellout of a spectacle merchant, or perhaps a cautionary tale, you can’t deny that Trainwrecks knows how to keep the reels and the media machine spinning. It would appear that the king of crypto casino streaming has returned to reclaim his throne.
