Kick bans fake Roshtein account used to promote Duel casino

Duel’s founder Monarch announced an “exclusive contract” with Roshtein in June, but the streamer who actually turned up on Duel’s tables wasn’t him. The channel using his name, Roshsteins, had been registered that same month with a single-letter tweak to the handle and a bio line flipped from “the longest slot streamer” to “the shortest slot streamer” — a small enough change that anyone glancing at the profile without reading closely could have mistaken it for the genuine account, right down to a visual style built to match Roshtein’s own.

The person behind it dealt blackjack on camera during Duel-sponsored broadcasts, styled and positioned to pass as the real streamer without ever explicitly claiming to be him. Posts on the channel talked up seven-figure balances, giveaways, and other promotional beats standard to sponsored casino streaming, content built specifically to draw an audience in under a borrowed name and a face nobody was checking too closely.

Kick pulled the account along with everything it had published, wiping the entire archive of Duel-branded clips and leaving the channel unreachable. The platform hasn’t said publicly why, and Duel’s own X account filled the silence instead, suggesting the ban landed not long after the crypto casino’s sponsorship of the channel became public knowledge. The timing is notable given Duel has already drawn scrutiny this year over how it handles disputes with users.

The real Roshtein hasn’t addressed any of it. His verified channels have kept posting as usual, with nothing connecting him to the ban or to Monarch’s June announcement, a gap that, next to the mismatched bio and the altered handle, points to the “contract” having described the impersonator all along and never the streamer whose name it borrowed. For now, the only account that lost anything is the one that was never really his.