Stake

Online Casino Games at Stake

The lobby runs past 6,000 titles and covers more formats than most casinos, including several you will not find elsewhere:

Slots

Slots are the busiest part of the site, with 260+ publishers behind them. Big studios like Hacksaw, Pragmatic Play, Nolimit City and Massive Studios sit next to smaller ones such as Backseat Gaming, Uppercut Gaming and Twist Gaming. The most played titles include Sweet Bonanza 2500, Gates of Olympus 1000 and Sugar Rush 1000, and Hacksaw’s Le Bandit, Le Cowboy and Le Viking run as a connected series with shared mechanics.

The four main slot formats work differently enough to be worth comparing:

Themes are grouped into their own pages, so ancient Egypt, fantasy, fruit, retro, animals and Far East titles can be browsed as sets rather than searched one by one.

Table Games

Blackjack, roulette and baccarat are available as RNG tables, Stake Originals versions and live dealer streams. Stake Original Blackjack is the standout on numbers: a house edge of 0.57%, which works out at a 99.43% return to player.

Roulette splits into three rule sets, and the difference matters more than the layout suggests:

Baccarat covers the Stake Original version, live tables and Lightning Baccarat. Hilo, Diamonds and video poker fill out the rest of the section.

Burst Games

Burst games blend casino mechanics with video game structure. There are no set paylines or reels; each round is built from scratch on the Stake Engine. Keno, crash titles, chicken games and Mines all live here, along with Pragmatic Plinko+, Aviamasters, MineDrop, Pachinko Planet and Drop the Boss. Many arrive in early access before they launch anywhere else, and all of them can be tried in Fun Play first.

Poker

Stake Poker is a real-money multiplayer room rather than a game against the house. It runs Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Pineapple and All-in or Fold across cash games, tournaments and the fast-fold Next! format, with knockout and mystery bounty events on the tournament schedule. Two standing jackpots sit on top: a $500,000 All in or Fold jackpot and a $1,000,000 Bad Beat jackpot. Poker Live by Evolution, Stake Rummy and Gates of Bellatro: Hold’em round out the card section.

Stake Originals and Only on Stake

Two collections are exclusive to the site, and between them they account for a large share of what gets played.

Stake Originals

Stake Originals are built by the in-house studio and have been part of the site since 2017. They are deliberately simple: pick a bet, pick a difficulty, see the result. Mines is a take on Minesweeper, Plinko drops a ball through pegs onto a multiplier, Limbo and Crash ask you to cash out before the number stops climbing, and Dragon Tower, Snakes, Hilo, Flip, Darts and Rock Paper Scissors work on the same quick-round principle. Slide runs the longest odds on the site, with a top multiplier in the billions.

The range also includes slots such as Tome of Life, Scarab Spin and Blue Samurai, plus original blackjack, roulette, baccarat, keno and video poker. Newer additions include Chicken, Tarot, Drill and Moles. Many titles let you set the volatility yourself, which changes how often and how big the payouts run.

Provably Fair Gaming

Every Stake Original is provably fair. Instead of taking a random number generator on trust, you can verify each round yourself: outcomes are checked on site and through a third-party tool, then stored using cryptographic hashing. The fairness button in each game shows the seeds behind your results.

Only on Stake

Only on Stake games are made with partner studios on the Stake Engine, the site’s own remote gaming server, and cannot be played anywhere else. Pragmatic Play supplies the largest batch, including Sweet Fiesta 1000, Sugar Twist Enhanced RTP, Jewel Bonanza and Koi Pond. Other exclusives worth knowing:

• Wild Orbs by Titan Gaming – space theme, cascading reels and a house edge of 3.66%.
• POP Royale by AvatarUX – a volatility switch and a 98% RTP.
• Angry Balls by Coreffect Interactive – a burst game with a 37,168x max win and 96.51% RTP.
• Wild West Bonanza and Zeus Sanctuary by BGaming – 96% RTP with heavy bonus features.
• Snack Attack Megaways by OneTouch – cascading reels with repeat wins in the base game.

A number of these run as Enhanced RTP versions, which pay back more than the standard release of the same game. Lucky Phoenix Megaways and Gates of Heaven are both available in that form.

Live Casino and Game Shows

The live section runs past 150 titles from Evolution, Pragmatic Play Live and Animo Studios, streamed in HD from studio floors with real dealers. Alongside blackjack, roulette and baccarat you will find Dragon Tiger, Sic Bo and less usual formats like Stock Market Live, Red Door Roulette and Gates of Crazy Pachinko.

Live Tables

Blackjack covers Infinite Blackjack for busy tables, Speed Blackjack for quick rounds, Free Bet and Power Blackjack for rule variations, and VIP tables with higher limits. Roulette includes classic wheels plus Lightning Roulette and XXXtreme Lightning Roulette, where random numbers are struck with multipliers running from 500x upward. Baccarat, Speed Baccarat, Ultimate Texas Hold’em and Three Card Poker fill the rest.

First Person Games

First Person titles are RNG versions of the live games, built by Evolution with the same interface and features. They are a sensible way in: play at your own pace, learn the table, then switch to the live version from the same screen. First Person Roulette, First Person Baccarat and First Person Lightning Roulette are the main ones.

Game Shows

Game shows swap the standard table for a host, a wheel and bonus rounds. They pay less often than classic tables and carry a lower RTP, but the multipliers go much further. Here is how the main titles differ:

Crazy Time is the one most people start with. Its four bonus games are Coin Flip, where two multiplier coins are flipped; Cash Hunt, a shooting gallery of hidden multipliers; Pachinko, a puck dropped through pegs; and the Crazy Time Wheel itself, which reaches 10,000x. Multipliers stack on the base bet, so a single round can pay up to 20,000x. Funky Time, Deal or No Deal, Mega Wheel, Mega Ball and Sweet Bonanza Candyland run on similar lines.

More than 260 studios supply the slot library alone. Pragmatic Play, Hacksaw Gaming, Nolimit City and Play’n GO account for many of the best-known titles, with Push Gaming, Relax Gaming, Games Global, BGaming, Novomatic, Endorphina, Belatra, Spribe, 3 Oaks and Gamzix filling out the rest. Evolution runs most of the live floor, joined by Pragmatic Play Live and Animo Studios.

A second group builds exclusively for the platform on the Stake Engine, which is the reason their games appear nowhere else:

• Massive Studios
• Twist Gaming
• Titan Gaming
• Paperclip Gaming
• Uppercut Gaming
• Shady Lady
• Mirror Image Gaming

Standout releases from that side include Air Strike, Mine Drop, Tavern Drop, Bank Basher, Lucky Man’s Chamber and Sweet Side. Many of the studios on the site also hold licences from the Malta Gaming Authority, which sets its own testing requirements on top of the platform’s.

Sports Betting at Stake

The sportsbook takes more than 100,000 bets a day and runs on the same balance as the casino. Odds can be displayed as decimal, fractional or American, and selected events come with free live streaming for anyone logged in.

Sports Covered

• Soccer, from the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 down to MLS, the A-League and emerging competitions
• Basketball, including the NBA, NCAA, EuroLeague and international leagues
• Tennis across the ATP and WTA tours, all four Grand Slams and Challenger events
• Cricket, boxing, MMA and Formula 1
• Horse racing
• Esports: Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, League of Legends, Valorant, Call of Duty, plus sports sims like EA Sports FC and Rocket League
• Novelty and prediction markets on politics and entertainment

Bet Types

• Match winner, moneyline and 1X2
• Asian and European handicaps
• Over/under totals, both teams to score and correct score
• Player props, first and anytime goalscorer, shots and points markets
• Parlays, accumulators and same-game multis through the bet builder
• Outrights and futures

Live Betting and Streaming

In-play markets update as an event develops, and a cash out button in the bet slip lets you settle early rather than ride a bet to the end. Soccer adds live-only markets such as next goal, next goalscorer, corners, cards and minute-by-minute intervals. Stake Shield is a protection tool for multis: it can still return a payout when one leg of your bet misses. A bet tracker follows your open selections in real time.

Free streams cover soccer competitions including the Bundesliga, Copa del Rey, the Portuguese league, the English Championship and European club qualifiers, plus tennis, MMA, basketball and esports. Simulated reality leagues give you something to bet on when the real fixture list is empty.

One point worth knowing if you play the VIP Club: sports wagering moves you through the tiers three times faster than casino play.

How to Start Playing at Stake

There is nothing to download and the sign-up form is short. Here is each step in order.

How to Register

1. Select the Register button at the top of the site.
2. Enter your email address.
3. Choose a username, which is the name other players see at poker tables and in chat.
4. Set a password.
5. Accept the terms and confirm you are 18 or over.

How to Log In

1. Select the login option in the site header.
2. Enter your username or email address and your password.
3. Confirm any second-factor prompt on your account.

Passkeys are supported if you would rather skip passwords altogether, and they are the quicker option on mobile.

How to Make a Deposit

1. Open the wallet and select Deposit.
2. Choose your currency – a cryptocurrency or one of the supported local currencies.
3. Copy the deposit address shown for that coin.
4. Send the funds from your own wallet or exchange to that address.
5. If you do not hold crypto yet, buy it through a service like Moonpay or Swapped, or use Swap Connect or Mesh to move funds across in one step.

Swap Crypto is built into the wallet, so one coin can be exchanged for another without leaving the site.

How to Withdraw

1. Open the wallet and select Withdraw.
2. Choose the currency you want to be paid in.
3. Paste the destination address.
4. Enter the amount, at or above the minimum for that coin.
5. Confirm the request.

Fun Play and Real Play

Most casino games have a demo version. Flip the on-screen toggle from Real Play to Fun Play and you can try a game without spending anything, which is a sensible way to learn a burst game or a new slot before betting. Nothing won in Fun Play is real, and games load in Real Play by default, so check the toggle before your first spin.

Promotions and Bonuses

Stake does not run a traditional matched welcome bonus. Instead the value sits in recurring prize pools and in the VIP Club, which pays out continuously rather than once at sign-up. Over $1 billion has been handed out in bonuses across the site.

Daily Races

A $100,000 prize pool is split every 24 hours between the players highest on the leaderboard. Position is based on wagering, so it rewards regular play rather than one large bet.

Weekly Raffle

$75,000 is drawn each week. Every $1,000 wagered earns one ticket, and tickets stack, so more play means more entries rather than better odds on a single one.

Challenges and Tournaments

A rotating set of events runs alongside the fixed promotions: Conquer the Casino with a $75,000 pool, Stake Wheel Wars at $150,000 a month, Stake vs Eddie at $50,000, Multiplier Mania and a regular run of casino, slots and sports challenges. Forum challenges add smaller pools, usually a few thousand dollars, for hitting the highest multiplier on a named game.

Sports Offers

The sportsbook carries its own promotions, mostly tied to specific fixtures: odds boosts on selected teams and tournaments, a horse racing money-back special when your runner finishes second to fifth, UFC split decision insurance, an MLB ninth-innings refund and early payout offers on major soccer leagues.

Monthly Bonuses and Reloads

Monthly bonuses are distributed around the fifteenth of each month and are calculated from your recent play. Reloads are a separate, more frequent top-up that can be set to a daily or hourly interval and claimed from the VIP tab in your account.

The Stake VIP Club and Rakeback

You join the VIP Club by wagering, not by invitation. Once total wagering reaches $10,000 the account enters Bronze, and rakeback switches on from that point. Rakeback returns a percentage of the house edge on every bet you place, win or lose, and the percentage grows with your tier.

What the Tiers Pay

Four things run through the programme. Rakeback is constant. Level-up bonuses are fixed payments that get larger each time you move a tier. Weekly and monthly bonuses are calculated from your play in that period, with more added for every $1,000 wagered. Reloads are top-ups you claim yourself from the VIP tab.

Bonuses are worked out from both wagering and profit, so a losing run does not cut you out – an unlucky period generally adds to the amount rather than reducing it.

VIP Hosts

A dedicated host is assigned at Platinum IV. The host renews your weekly reloads, guides your progression, reviews sports limits and arranges extra bonuses where they are available. That is separate from live support, which handles technical problems for everyone regardless of tier.

Progression itself is straightforward to track: your account page shows a progress bar with the percentage left to the next tier. Sports betting moves you three times faster than casino play, so the same tier takes a third of the wagering if you bet on sport.

Deposits and Withdrawals

Stake is built around cryptocurrency but supports local currency too, and you can hold both. The wallet accepts BTC, ETH, USDT, LTC, DOGE, SOL, TRX and EOS among others, while local currency options include CAD, BRL, JPY, INR, TRY, ARS, CLP, MXN, PEN, VND, PHP and NGN. Your balance can be displayed in whichever currency you prefer, regardless of what you deposited.

Limits and Fees

There is no minimum or maximum on cryptocurrency payments, and no cap on how much you can withdraw. What each coin does have is a minimum withdrawal and a network fee:

Local currency methods can carry their own limits, which vary by option.

Buying and Swapping Crypto

If you do not already hold crypto, Moonpay and Swapped let you buy it with a card and send it straight through. Swap Connect and Mesh link an existing exchange account to the wallet, which removes the copy-and-paste address step. Swap Crypto works inside the wallet itself and exchanges one coin for another without a third-party service.

The Stake Vault

The Vault is separate storage for funds you are not currently playing with. It sits behind two-factor authentication, holds multiple cryptocurrencies and local currencies at once, and can be accessed whenever you want. The practical use is simple: money in the Vault is out of reach of an impulsive bet and out of reach of anyone who gets into your session.

Stake on Mobile

There is no native iOS or Android app. The site runs as a progressive web app instead, built on HTML5, so everything loads in your mobile browser with nothing to install from a store and nothing to update.

Adding it to your home screen gets you the closest thing to an app: open the site in your browser, choose Add to Home Screen, and the shortcut opens full-screen straight into the lobby. From there you can log in, deposit, play casino games and place bets exactly as on desktop.

Live dealer tables, burst games and Stake Originals are all built for touch, and live sports streams work on phones and tablets with the same resolution controls as the desktop player.

Security and Responsible Play

Stake is owned and operated by Medium Rare N.V. and licensed by the Curaçao Gaming Authority under licence OGL/2024/1451/0918. The licence sets fairness and security standards and requires regular testing of systems including the random number generator. Many of the studios supplying games hold Malta Gaming Authority licences alongside that.

On the in-house side, provably fair technology means results are not something you have to take on trust. Outcomes are recorded and hashed, and the fairness button in each Stake Original shows the seeds behind your own rounds.

Responsible Gambling Tools

The Stake Smart section collects the controls you can switch on from your account:

• Deposit limits
• Loss limits
• Wager limits
• Session reminders and break in play
• Cooling-off periods
• Self-exclusion

A monthly budget calculator and a self-assessment tool sit alongside them, and support can close an account or apply a longer exclusion on request. Accounts are for players aged 18 and over. If gambling stops being entertainment, Gambling Therapy offers free, confidential help.

Customer Support

Live chat runs 24 hours a day and handles everything from deposits and account access to game problems. Higher VIP tiers add a personal host on top, though that sits alongside live support rather than replacing it.

The forum is more useful than it sounds. A good share of the challenges and prize pools run through it, and the local currency guides there are the quickest way to find out how a specific payment option behaves.