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The gambling streams have been a crux among Twitch. Many streamers wanted Twitch to ban it as they believed badly it to be harmful to influence the audience. Recently, Twitch has taken some drastic measures against it. So the big-time slot streamer Trainwreck took a few shots at the platform.

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All this drama surrounding gambling raged after streamers, and the audience called out Slicker for scamming them hundreds of thousands of dollars for his gambling addiction. After the drama, Twitch announced banning gambling on the live streaming platform. Many streamers celebrated it as a big win, while some were sad and angry at the audience.

Trainwreck calls Twitch corrupt

The American streamer Tyler Faraz Niknam, popularly known as Trainwreck, is one of the big names in the gambling streams. The new policies would affect Twitch gambling and drastically affect Train’s career. Further, Train suggested banning individuals than banning the whole environment.

However, Twitch’s new policies against gambling only shut down slots, roulette, and dice games. Meanwhile, Twitch gave the green light to sports betting. As a result, Trainwreck tweeted about the decision and even called Twitch corrupt for the live-streaming platform not putting a ban on sports betting.

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Trainwreck’s tweet said, The inconsistency to not ban sports betting is corruption considering the fact you have your hands in the $13B NFL deal cookie jar &the fact you virtue signaling streamers act as you care about “gambling” is silent when it’s 100x the market & more prevalent are just as corrupt.”

What are the new Twitch policies about gambling?

Twitch has always wanted to offer an elite experience to the fans. After the Sliker drama this month, the purple platform announced no one would be allowed to stream gambling games. Further, some players can no longer share links to that gambling stream.

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Twitch will also check various gambling sites to see if they offer the security of customers’ money. And also, fans of gambling can now only play sports betting. The whole drama on Twitch that began a few days ago has changed in the last few days.

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Twitch will officially announce the new policies on October 18. It would be interesting to see what streamers like Trainwreck would do after Warzone. Do you think Twitch was right to ban gambling? Share your thoughts about it in the comments below.