xQc hits it big with $15m win during live gambling stream

• xQc claims he made $15 million from a single gambling stream, underlining just how lucrative casino content can be
• Now streaming on Kick after leaving Twitch, he also shared other earnings, including $57,000 from ads and a $1 million deal for Call of Duty: Warzone
• His claims sparked mixed reactions online, with some pointing to the clear money in gambling content, while others questioned how real those figures actually are

The xQc has been a fascinating figure, with the influential esports player turned casino streamer, revealing interesting titbits about his career as a streamer in general, and one very sauce details bout his gambling career.

In an excerpt captured by social media user Jack on X, xQc went on to explain how much he has earned from his streaming, with one of the numbers standing out.

The streamer claimed that he earned $15 million during a single gambling stream, while he was enumerating different details about his career and streams over the years.

He once made $57,000 from ads during a stream, he said, his highest recorded amount from streaming. Although the public has come to associate xQc with his streams on Kick, mostly featuring casino slots, he has also been known to dabble in other games.

For example, he said that he was offered $1,000,000 to stream Call of Duty: Warzone a few times over two weeks, but in the end, he was allowed to do a single 12-hour streaming marathon and secure his payday.

xQc’s gambling career, though, has been the center of fascination. The streamer previously abandoned Twitch over the platform’s stringent new rules on gambling content, switching to the arguably more liberal Kick.

However, xQc has openly mused whether he could make a comeback on the Amazon-owned video streaming giant by inserting a static banner of a casino brand in his channel without really advertising the website through direct CTAs.

In the meantime, netizens commented on xQc’s latest claim to have earned $15,000,000 from a single gambling stream. One user by the moniker of Cole pointed out that when ads would fetch you $57,000 but a gambling stream would earn you millions of dollars, the logic behind streamers promoting gambling was obvious.

Another user, though, was more skeptical. Going by the handle Maverick, the user simply stated: "He didn’t make a single penny from gambling."

Recently, xQc commented that he was earning as much as $200,000 per stream on Kick, which may be coming on top of a deal he has with the platform already.

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