The interview with streamer Shamil (Slotshunter) was filmed by another Runet affiliate, who was embarrassed to ask awkward questions, but only lightly powdered their noses and exchanged compliments. These two "darlings" cooed like kisses-kisses.
Shama started earning money at 16, selling counterfeit CDs at the market, and made good money from it. So good that at that age he didn't know what to do with it. He got into drugs a little, but without tragedy (he seems to have jumped off now). He says that he and his "friends" looked after each other so as not to overdose.
Then he did some kind of journalism - he went to film reports of local poker tournaments. At first, he and a friend went at their own expense. Then they went at the organizer's expense, and then they were paid for travel, accommodation, plus they paid extra for filming. Shama liked this kind of life.
Then Shamil told about his work with TTR on the home-made magazine EQTY, which was published in PDF format. He and his wife had to take out a $100,000 loan (an obvious lie, since such budgets are not needed for an electronic magazine), which was enough for 8 issues. In the end, in order not to go bankrupt, he went to a poker tournament and found a fat sponsor there. Thanks to advertising in the magazine, he was able to pay off the entire loan in four months (where did he find such a sucker? Or maybe there was no loan for 100K?). Later, you can often hear astronomical figures from these friends - they like to inflate their figures and throw dust in the eyes. Since after the contract with the sponsor expired, there were no other people willing to buy a spread in the magazine, the magazine was no longer published.
But the magazine didn't die, it was transferred online and the website eqty.ru appeared. Andrey TTR helped Shamil with the website, he was actively studying website building and the topic of affiliate programs in volcanoes right after losing money in poker. The guys became friends and good friends. Together they found a brilliant idea from their point of view - to sell subscriptions and earn money not on affiliate programs, but on subscriptions. The material is published, and in order to read it to the end, you need to pay. A subscription cost 2 dollars per month, 10 per year.
As usual in the TTR style, all financial indicators for their resources were inflated by tens of times - they were driving up their price. Therefore, Shamil's stories about those suckers who paid thousands of dollars for subscriptions do not sound convincing. When the site started working, it began to bring in 4-7 thousand dollars (though it is not said in what period - a month, a year, for all time?). Banners on the site cost several thousand dollars. For a year and a half, Shama and TTR worked in this mode, but then everything went down the drain - gambling was banned and the number of players sharply decreased. Shamil continued working on the site, but it became a useless exercise. Real advertisers finally realized that the guys were lying to them about the volume of traffic and this whole project was a big soap bubble.
On the impossibility of tweaking slots in the script casino Admiral.
In an interview, Shamil said that there is no way to rig games at Admiral Casino. He had a very good relationship with the casino manager. And when Shamil suggested increasing his return to more than 100%, the Admiral manager said that
This is impossible. If such a possibility existed, he would have received such a "privilege".
Only complete idiots would think that Shamil would say something different about the casino, which is constantly at the top of his stream and where he drives gullible suckers.
Shamil's friendship and enmity with TTR, Vitus and others "one hand washes the other".
Shamil mentions TTR several times in his interviews. At first, they were good friends, and TTR helped him well, and did it for free. But then they had disagreements over affiliates. TTR wanted Shamil to work for a salary, and TTR to control all affiliates personally, but Shamil refused. This was the beginning of their crazy and ostentatious feud on the Internet.
When they were friends, they decided that their projects should not compete with each other.
Since TTR had the Neverfold forum, eqty did not have a forum. But after the conflict, everything changed. TTR removed a large number of users from Neverfold, who came to Shamil with the idea of creating a forum on his site.
A whole "bloody" war began and the battlefield became two warring forums where they poured mud and curses at each other.
Both liked this way of attracting hype.
Eventually, the feud came to an end. It's not exactly a truce, but simply the end of the war. People got tired of reading two idiots with a bunch of multi-accounts.
About ludo streams and types of cooperation between streamers and casinos.
All casinos offer streamers to play for fun. Many casinos offered him to stream and only two of them gave 50% under the affiliate program - Gusar and Pobeda. Shamil has been promoting them the most for several years and says that he plays "for his own" and that they "give" better than normal casinos.
Shamil likes to talk about the hard lot of streamers - how casinos resort to blackmail. For example, they offer two streamers to register under each other's affiliate programs. And a few months later, the casino bans this. Then the streamers are faced with a choice: either they make a certain number of streams over a certain period, or they are punished for breaking the rules. One of the SoftSwiss managers, who was subsequently fired, told him that this is practiced in casinos.
In general, he says that streamers can work with the same casino under different conditions. Everything will depend on how you negotiate with the manager and how much traffic you drive to the casino.
Shamil's Streams in Casino. Who Started It All?
According to Shamil, when Vitus started showing good results, he, the great co-owner of EQTY, wrote to Vitus himself with a proposal to join forces. Share time, combine affiliate programs and share income. At that time, Vitus had already noticeably succeeded in streaming and did not agree to cooperate, but he gave Shamil advice on promotion.
When the channels were blocked, he, according to him, made a mistake. Instead of continuing the old channel, he created new ones. While Vitus decided to stay on the old channel, as a result he grew an audience about twice as large as his. In the interview, he also mentions Ludozhop, emphasizing that he is not a player.
Shamil's earnings from affiliate programs.
He did not name his income. But he said that when Vitus showed that he had +900,000 dollars from affiliates, he was surprised that it was so little. Shamil assumed that either Vitus was being deceived by his partner, or Vitus did not show all of his income.
The habit of driving up the price of himself and his entire gang is in Shamil's blood. How else can one explain the millions of lost deposits of these ruble would-be billionaires, who do their utmost to disown fantasy and die without sparing their lives on the battlefields for fresh targeted traffic for the casino?