Gaming streamer Félix Lengyel was recently removed from Montreal Casino and found out that he’d been banned across all Quebec casinos.
The streamer, known online as “xQc,” made major headlines earlier this year after signing a two-year, $70 million to bring his stream to the new Kick platform, which is backed by gaming company Stake Casino. Lengyel reported on Twitter that he’d been removed from the casino and was told by security that the cause was an article in Radio Canada that reported on some of his own admissions during streams that he has had addictive tendencies and also on a Quebec resident who suffered gambling addiction.
This all was apparently too much for Quebec gaming regulators and led to his removal from Montreal Casino.
“Went to the Montréal casino after my birthday dinner to spend some time with my family,” he noted on Twitter. “Split small amounts to each member so we could play table games and laugh. Security came and dragged me out in front of everyone because of a 2022 Radio Canada clickbait article. Cringe.”
Article & Streams Bring Casino Ban
Along with focusing on addiction concerns, the article also interviewed a stream viewer who lost a considerable amount of money after using an online gaming promotion publicized on Lengyel’s stream.
“The 2022 Radio Canada article painted xQc as the sole primary reason for a viewer going bankrupt due to gambling,” Twitter user xQcReviews noted over the weekend. “The victim admitted that xQc wasn’t the first streamer to introduce them to gambling, posting on Mizkif’s subreddit a year before about playing blackjack.”
The article prompted Quebec gaming regulators to take action as the gambler was barred from all casinos from the province, Lengyel later noted on stream as relayed to him by the property’s security team. Gaming officials also barred Lengyel from engaging in online casino gambling or playing the lottery in the province.
The banning may raise some questions about a player being disallowed from gaming without being consulted about the matter. He’s now working to remove the ban.
“I’m banned from everything,” he noted on stream. “Banned from everything in the entire province. All the casinos. All online stuff. I can’t even buy a lottery ticket. I can’t do anything until it’s appealed. I’m banned from everything that has a chance in it in the entire state.”
Lengyel also made some news recently when details of his streaming agreement with Kick were revealed. The agreement could reach $100 million if certain incentives are met and also allows him to keep streaming on Twitch.
Details emerged that Lengyel and Call of Duty streamer Nick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff have both agreed that online gaming will be part of their streams. Kolcheff confirmed that on a recent stream and Lengyel can now regularly be seen streaming slot play on Stake, a modern bitcoin casino.
“Nickmercs basically confirmed what many had suspected: that Stake is throwing money at streamers to promote gambling via Kick,” PC Gamer reports. “Kick’s status as one of the few streaming platforms to have built any audience in the face of Twitch is key here, because last year Twitch took action following community concerns about an increasing prevalence of gambling streams on the platform.”