For the first hour and a half, chickenchicken6969 played like a normal high roller. From 03:38 UTC on September 22 we recorded 29 bets, mostly slots, $33,550 in total, and they were about $33,000 up. Then at 05:18 they moved on to Mines in earnest and lost seven $10,000 games in seventeen seconds.
Mines is a grid of tiles with some bombs hidden in it. You turn tiles over one at a time, and the payout climbs with every safe one. Hit a mine and the whole stake is gone. chickenchicken6969 almost always stopped at the same point: about 5.3x, or sometimes 8.5x. Across 90 Mines games we recorded 11 wins. Every other game hit a mine.
$15,000 a game, one second apart
The bets got bigger quickly. At 05:23, five games of $16,665 each in three seconds, all mines. At 05:32:02 they started a run of $14,998 games one second apart: nine losses, one 5.3x win, then seven more losses. In twenty seconds the account went from +$67,513 to −$66,959.
Then at 05:37 the stakes went to $50,000. Two losses, then a win at 5.27x worth $213,471. That got them back to roughly even. They kept going: five games at $20,000, four at $49,995 in four seconds, then another $49,983. All mines. At 05:41:25 they were $367,523 down on the session.
Four $49,995 games in four seconds, and every one of them hit a mine.
Eight seconds, then a different table
| Bet (UTC) | Game | Staked | Result | Running total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05:41:25 | Mines | $49,983 | Mine | −$367,523 |
| 05:41:33 | Mines | $50,000 | 5.27x, +$213,471 | −$154,052 |
| 05:41:47 | Mines | $13,471 | Mine | −$167,523 |
| 05:41:54 | Mines | $25,000 | 5.29x, +$107,307 | −$60,217 |
| 05:42:31 | Blackjack | $157,291 | Won, +$157,291 | +$97,075 |
| 05:52:28 | Crash | $50,000 | Cashed at 2x, +$50,000 | +$157,896 |
| 05:59:52 | Slots | $19,998 | 2x, +$19,998 | +$190,395 |
Eight seconds after the low point, a $50,000 game came in at 5.27x. Twenty-one seconds later a $25,000 game came in too. Then they left Mines for good and put $157,291 on one blackjack hand, the biggest blackjack bet we recorded in two days. It won.
Ten minutes later came the $50,000 crash bet we mentioned in our 2,091x report, cashed at 2x while the round went on to 7.83x. One last $19,998 slot spin doubled, and at 05:59:52 they stopped. We haven't seen them bet since.
Who is chickenchicken6969?
Duel's high-score table (updated 09:22 UTC Sept 23) has them at $8.36 million wagered all time and +$448,182 in profit, #68 on the profit table, with $2.77 million deposited and $3.34 million withdrawn. Their 130 bets that morning, $1.66 million in all, were a fifth of their lifetime betting in two hours and twenty minutes.