I wouldn't be surprised if those big numbers have a part of it carved out to be casino bucks.
nobody has come out about their contract yet or about the rules with pay and gambling, but it is assumed by most that a majority of the money the large streamers gamble is actually
their pay
thats why it still hurts for them to lose it, because they are paid a lot, but they have to run atleast a large percentage through the casino
this is complicated by there being "fill balance" deals where Stake will give smaller streamers X amount of money, but whatever they win they get to keep 30% of
so if they given 20 dollars fill, then win 10 dollars, but then lose the whole 30 dollars, the streamer will get $3 dollars of the $10 dollars he won
Trains, Rosh and XQC have deals we will probably never hear the raw details of, but again, it is assumed the money they gamble with on Stake is actually their pay, and the deal is they have to run it through the casino but we dont know for sure
my assumption is this number is also a major factor into all these big Kick deals, that they will give X million you have to gamble
Kick.com and Stake.com are at least bound together by that the guys who fund Stake are also funding Kick. I am not sure if Trainwrecks has any ownership in any of those two companies.
the deal is, as was argued on stream between Rosh and Trains, is people like Adin, Trains, Rosh, they were given equity in the company meaning technically they can say they are co-owners even though thats a little silly
Trains is just taking this to the extreme, Rosh called him out for it saying "we dont have any power, and you dont have any more power than I have as an ambassador" meaning Trains owns no more than any other large streamer who took some equity in their deal
