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While Chabot’s decision to keep betting was his own, he says watching the Twitch streamers festively gambling on the site ‘gave me a reason to go on Stake, like I was a part of what they were doing’, he told Bloomberg in an interview. — AFP

Enneric Chabot, 26, didn’t start gambling until he saw his favourite gamers doing it online.

Three years ago, Chabot began regularly watching Felix “xQc” Lengyel, a former professional Overwatch player, as he competed in various video games on Amazon.com Inc’s livestreaming site Twitch for audiences of up to 25,000 viewers. In 2021, during some of his streams, Lengyel started playing something else – online blackjack.

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