$100,000 Daily Races plus a $75,000 weekly raffle

Stake India

More than 6,000 casino games, in-house Stake Originals and a sportsbook that handles over 100,000 bets a day, set out here for players in India.

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This page covers Stake India, the India version of an online casino and sportsbook that launched in 2017 and now draws more than 100 million players a month. The official site carries over 6,000 casino games, among them the in-house Stake Originals series, live dealer tables and a sportsbook that handles more than 100,000 bets a day. Balances are held in cryptocurrency or local currency, and the VIP Club starts paying rakeback from the very first tier.

Key Facts About Stake

Year of launch2017
Owned byMedium Rare N.V.
LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority, licence OGL/2024/1451/0918
Games available6,000+
Types of gamesSlots, Stake Originals, burst games, live casino, table games, poker, scratch cards
Slot studios260+ publishers
Live casino150+ titles from Evolution, Pragmatic Play Live and Animo Studios
Exclusive titlesStake Originals and Only on Stake, built on the Stake Engine
SportsbookYes, more than 100,000 bets placed every day
CryptocurrenciesBTC, ETH, USDT, LTC, DOGE, SOL, TRX, EOS and others
Local currenciesCAD, BRL, JPY, INR, TRY, ARS, CLP, MXN, PEN, VND, PHP, NGN and others
Minimum depositNo minimum on crypto payments
Withdrawal limitsNo maximum; every coin has its own minimum
Demo modeFun Play mode on most casino games
Loyalty programmeVIP Club, Bronze through to Diamond, entry at $10,000 wagered
PlatformBrowser-based, installs as a progressive web app
Customer supportLive chat, 24/7

Most Played Games

Chicken Road Winhero Originals
Gates of Olympus 1000 Pragmatic Play
Llightning Dragon Tiger Evolution
Big Bass Bonanza Pragmatic Play
Gold Vault Roulette Evolution

Online Casino Games at Stake for Players in India

The lobby holds more than 6,000 titles and stretches across more formats than most casinos manage, including a few you will not come across anywhere else:

CategoryWhat is on offer
SlotsClassic reels, Megaways, cascading reels, bonus buy and jackpot titles
Stake OriginalsIn-house provably fair games such as Mines, Dice, Limbo and Plinko
Only on StakeExclusive releases made with partner studios on the Stake Engine
Burst gamesFast instant-win rounds that do away with fixed paylines altogether
Live casino150+ streamed tables and game shows
Table gamesBlackjack, roulette, baccarat, video poker and scratch cards
PokerA real-money multiplayer room with cash games and tournaments
SportsbookPre-match, live and novelty markets on a single balance

Slots

Slots make up the busiest corner of the site, supplied by 260+ publishers. Well-known studios such as Hacksaw, Pragmatic Play, Nolimit City and Massive Studios sit alongside smaller names like Backseat Gaming, Uppercut Gaming and Twist Gaming. Among the most played titles are Sweet Bonanza 2500, Gates of Olympus 1000 and Sugar Rush 1000, while Hacksaw’s Le Bandit, Le Cowboy and Le Viking form a connected series that shares its mechanics.

The four main slot formats behave differently enough to be worth setting side by side:

TypeWays to winHow it playsRTP
Classic video slots1 to 1,000+ paylinesNearest thing to a traditional machine94% to 97%
MegawaysUp to 117,649Reel modifiers alter symbol counts on every spinFrom 96%
Cascading reelsCluster or scatter paysWinning symbols disappear and fresh ones drop inDepends on the game
Jackpot slotsFixed or progressiveFixed prizes pay 1,000x to 10,000x; progressives build into the millionsDepends on the game

Themes get pages of their own, so ancient Egypt, fantasy, fruit, retro, animal and Far East titles can be browsed as a set instead of being hunted down one at a time.

Table Games

Blackjack, roulette and baccarat each turn up as RNG tables, Stake Originals versions and live dealer streams. On the numbers, Stake Original Blackjack leads the way with a house edge of 0.57%, which works out to a 99.43% return to player.

Roulette breaks into three rule sets, and the gap between them matters more than the table layout suggests:

VariantZeroesHouse edge
FrenchSingle zero, with La Partage or En Prison1.35%
EuropeanSingle zero2.70%
AmericanSingle and double zero5.26%

Baccarat comes as the Stake Original version, live tables and Lightning Baccarat. Hilo, Diamonds and video poker make up the remainder of the section.

Burst Games

Burst games mix casino mechanics with the structure of a video game. Nothing is fixed – no paylines, no reels – and each round is assembled from scratch on the Stake Engine. Keno, crash titles, chicken games and Mines all sit here, together with Pragmatic Plinko+, Aviamasters, MineDrop, Pachinko Planet and Drop the Boss. Plenty of them turn up in early access before launching anywhere else, and every one can be sampled in Fun Play first.

Poker

Stake Poker is a real-money multiplayer room rather than a game against the house. Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Pineapple and All-in or Fold run across cash games, tournaments and the fast-fold Next! format, with knockout and mystery bounty events on the tournament calendar. Two standing jackpots sit above all of it: 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 complete the card section.

Stake Originals and Only on Stake

Two collections belong to this site alone, and between them they account for a large slice of everything that gets played.

Stake Originals

Stake Originals come from the in-house studio and have been on the site since 2017. Simplicity is the whole point: choose a bet, choose a difficulty, see the result. Mines reworks Minesweeper, Plinko drops a ball through pegs onto a multiplier, Limbo and Crash ask you to cash out before the number stops rising, and Dragon Tower, Snakes, Hilo, Flip, Darts and Rock Paper Scissors follow the same quick-round idea. Slide carries the longest odds anywhere on the site, with a top multiplier running into the billions.

The range takes in slots as well, among them Tome of Life, Scarab Spin and Blue Samurai, plus original blackjack, roulette, baccarat, keno and video poker. More recent arrivals include Chicken, Tarot, Drill and Moles. A good number let you set the volatility yourself, which shifts how often payouts land and how large they run.

Provably Fair Gaming

Every Stake Original is provably fair. Rather than taking a random number generator on trust, you can check each round for yourself: outcomes are verified on site and through a third-party tool, then stored using cryptographic hashing. The fairness button inside each game reveals the seeds behind your results.

Only on Stake

Only on Stake games are built with partner studios on the Stake Engine, the site’s own remote gaming server, which is why they cannot be played anywhere else. Pragmatic Play contributes the biggest batch, Sweet Fiesta 1000, Sugar Twist Enhanced RTP, Jewel Bonanza and Koi Pond among them. Other exclusives worth noting:

Several of these appear as Enhanced RTP versions, which pay back more than the standard release of the same game. Lucky Phoenix Megaways and Gates of Heaven both come in that form.

Live Casino and Game Shows

The live section stretches past 150 titles from Evolution, Pragmatic Play Live and Animo Studios, streamed in HD from studio floors with real dealers at the tables. Beyond blackjack, roulette and baccarat you will come across Dragon Tiger, Sic Bo and rarer formats such as Stock Market Live, Red Door Roulette and Gates of Crazy Pachinko.

Live Tables

Blackjack brings Infinite Blackjack for crowded tables, Speed Blackjack for quick rounds, Free Bet and Power Blackjack for rule variations, and VIP tables carrying higher limits. Roulette runs classic wheels together with Lightning Roulette and XXXtreme Lightning Roulette, where random numbers are struck with multipliers starting at 500x. Baccarat, Speed Baccarat, Ultimate Texas Hold’em and Three Card Poker fill out the rest.

First Person Games

First Person titles are RNG versions of the live games, made by Evolution with the same interface and features. They are a sensible entry point: play at your own pace, get to know the table, then move across 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 replace the standard table with a host, a wheel and bonus rounds. Wins land less often than on classic tables and the RTP sits lower, but the multipliers reach much further. This is how the main titles differ:

Game showWhat makes it differentPayout style
Crazy TimeFour separate bonus roundsHigh volatility, very large wins
Monopoly LiveA 3D board with property multipliersChained rewards through 2 and 4 Rolls
Lightning RouletteRandom lightning numbersBoosted roulette payouts
Lightning StormLarge stacked multipliersHigh risk, high reward
Ice FishingThemed live gameplaySteadier, moderate payouts

Crazy Time is where most people begin. Its four bonus games are Coin Flip, in which two multiplier coins are flipped; Cash Hunt, a shooting gallery of hidden multipliers; Pachinko, a puck sent down through pegs; and the Crazy Time Wheel itself, which climbs to 10,000x. Multipliers stack on the base bet, so a single round can return as much as 20,000x. Funky Time, Deal or No Deal, Mega Wheel, Mega Ball and Sweet Bonanza Candyland work along similar lines.

Software Providers

The slot library alone draws on more than 260 studios. Pragmatic Play, Hacksaw Gaming, Nolimit City and Play’n GO are behind a large share of the best-known titles, with Push Gaming, Relax Gaming, Games Global, BGaming, Novomatic, Endorphina, Belatra, Spribe, 3 Oaks and Gamzix making up much of the rest. Evolution handles most of the live floor, supported by Pragmatic Play Live and Animo Studios.

A second group develops solely for the platform on the Stake Engine, and that is precisely why their games surface nowhere else:

Notable 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 carry licences from the Malta Gaming Authority, which sets its own testing requirements on top of the platform’s.

Sports Betting at Stake for Indian Players

The sportsbook handles more than 100,000 bets a day and shares one balance with the casino. Odds can be shown in decimal, fractional or American format, and selected events carry free live streaming for anyone who is logged in.

Sports Covered

Bet Types

Live Betting and Streaming

In-play markets shift as an event unfolds, and the cash out button in the bet slip lets you settle early instead of riding a bet to the finish. Football 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 comes up short. A bet tracker follows your open selections in real time.

Free streams take in football 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 runs dry.

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

How to Start Playing at Stake India

Nothing needs downloading and the sign-up form is a short one. Here is every step in order.

How to Register

  1. Select the Register button at the top of the site.
  2. Enter your email address.
  3. Pick a username, the name other players see at poker tables and in chat.
  4. Set a password.
  5. Accept the terms and confirm that 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 along with your password.
  3. Confirm any second-factor prompt set on your account.

Passkeys are supported if you would rather do without passwords altogether, and they are the faster route on mobile.

How to Make a Deposit

  1. Open the wallet and select Deposit.
  2. Pick your currency – a cryptocurrency or one of the supported local currencies.
  3. Copy the deposit address displayed for that coin.
  4. Send the funds to that address from your own wallet or exchange.
  5. If you do not hold any crypto yet, buy some through a service such as Moonpay or Swapped, or use Swap Connect or Mesh to bring funds across in a single 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. Pick the currency you want to be paid in.
  3. Paste the destination address.
  4. Enter the amount, at or above the minimum set for that coin.
  5. Confirm the request.

Fun Play and Real Play

Most casino games come with 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 get the hang of a burst game or a new slot before betting. Nothing won in Fun Play is real, and games open in Real Play by default, so check the toggle before your first spin.

Promotions and Bonuses

Stake does not run a conventional matched welcome bonus. The value sits instead in recurring prize pools and in the VIP Club, which pays out on an ongoing basis rather than once at sign-up. More than $1 billion has been given out in bonuses across the site.

Daily Races

A $100,000 prize pool is divided every 24 hours among the players sitting highest on the leaderboard. Position comes down to wagering, so steady play is rewarded ahead of one large bet.

Weekly Raffle

$75,000 is drawn every week. Each $1,000 wagered earns a ticket, and tickets stack, so more play means more entries rather than better odds on any 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 steady run of casino, slots and sports challenges. Forum challenges add smaller pools, usually a few thousand dollars, for landing the highest multiplier on a named game.

Sports Offers

The sportsbook carries promotions of its own, mostly attached to particular 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 the major football leagues.

Monthly Bonuses and Reloads

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

The Stake VIP Club and Rakeback

Membership of the VIP Club is earned by wagering, not handed out by invitation. Once total wagering hits $10,000 the account enters Bronze, and rakeback switches on from that moment. Rakeback hands back a percentage of the house edge on every bet you place, win or lose, and that percentage rises with your tier.

TierWageringWhat it adds
Bronze$10,000Rakeback, weekly and monthly bonuses, level-up bonuses
Silver$50,000Bigger bonuses on top of the Bronze set
Gold$100,000Larger weekly and monthly bonuses
Platinum I$250,000Daily bonuses and reloads
Platinum II$500,000Bonuses keep growing
Platinum III$1,000,000Bonuses keep growing
Platinum IV$2,500,000A dedicated VIP host, renewable reloads
Platinum V to VIUp to $25,000,000Host bonuses, tailored benefits
Diamond I to V$25,000,000+The complete benefit set

What the Tiers Pay

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

Bonuses are worked out from wagering and profit together, so a losing run does not shut you out – an unlucky stretch usually adds to the amount rather than trimming it.

VIP Hosts

A dedicated host is assigned at Platinum IV. Your host renews weekly reloads, steers your progression, reviews sports limits and arranges extra bonuses where they can be had. That is separate from live support, which deals with technical trouble for every player whatever the tier.

Tracking progress is simple enough: your account page carries a progress bar showing the percentage still to go before the next tier. Sports betting moves you three times faster than casino play, so the same tier needs a third of the wagering if you bet on sport.

Payment Options

Deposits and Withdrawals

Stake is built around cryptocurrency but handles local currency as well, and you can keep both. The wallet takes 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 shown in whichever currency suits you, no matter what you deposited.

Limits and Fees

Cryptocurrency payments carry neither a minimum nor a maximum, and nothing caps how much you can withdraw. What each coin does carry is a minimum withdrawal and a network fee:

CoinMinimum withdrawalFee
BTC0.000025040.00001571
ETH0.000626100.00067447
LTC0.018573290.00013800
USDT2.500000001.00000000
DOGE5.499259700.52151198
EOS1.876445940.10788480
TRX7.824089130.07336170

Local currency methods can bring limits of their own, which differ from one option to the next.

Buying and Swapping Crypto

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

The Stake Vault

The Vault is separate storage for money you are not currently playing with. It sits behind two-factor authentication, holds several cryptocurrencies and local currencies at the same time, and can be opened whenever you want. The practical benefit is straightforward: funds in the Vault are beyond the reach of an impulsive bet and beyond the reach of anyone who gets into your session.

Stake on Mobile

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

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

Live dealer tables, burst games and Stake Originals are all built for touch, and live sports streams run 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. That licence sets standards for fairness and security and calls for regular testing of the systems behind the site, the random number generator included. Many of the studios supplying games hold Malta Gaming Authority licences alongside it.

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 gathers the controls you can switch on from your account:

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

Customer Support

Live chat is staffed around the clock and covers everything from deposits and account access to trouble with a game. Higher VIP tiers add a personal host on top, though that works alongside live support rather than in place of it.

ChannelAvailabilityBest for
Live chat24/7Payments, account access, technical problems
Help centreAlways availableGuides to payments, games and the VIP Club
VIP hostPlatinum IV and aboveReload renewals, limits, bonus queries
Community forumAlways availableChallenges, player discussion, currency guides
BlogUpdated weeklyNew releases, biggest wins, betting analysis

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Stake hold a licence?

Yes. Stake is owned and operated by Medium Rare N.V. and licensed by the Curaçao Gaming Authority under licence OGL/2024/1451/0918. The site has been running since 2017 and now serves more than 100 million players a month.

Is Stake available everywhere?

No. Access depends on where you are, and a number of jurisdictions are shut out of the platform. Local gambling rules always apply, so it is worth finding out what they say before you register.

How do players in India join the Stake VIP Club?

The route is the same for everyone: sign up and start playing. Once total wagering reaches $10,000 the account moves into the Bronze tier automatically, and rakeback begins from there. The tiers carry on through Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond.

What does rakeback mean at Stake?

Rakeback returns a percentage of the house edge on every bet you place, whether it wins or loses. It unlocks at Bronze and the percentage climbs as you move up the VIP tiers.

Are there minimum deposit and withdrawal amounts?

Cryptocurrency payments carry no minimum or maximum deposit, and withdrawals are not capped. Each coin does have its own minimum withdrawal and network fee, 2.5 USDT or 0.00002504 BTC for instance. Local currency methods can bring limits of their own.

What are Stake Originals?

Stake Originals are games made by the in-house studio and found nowhere else. The range covers Mines, Dice, Limbo, Plinko, Crash, Dragon Tower and Hilo, along with original slots and table games. Every one of them is provably fair.

What does provably fair mean?

It means each round can be verified rather than taken on trust from the random number generator. Outcomes are checked on site and through a third-party tool, then stored using cryptographic hashing. The fairness button inside each game shows the seeds behind your results.

Can I play Stake games for free?

Most casino games have a demo. Move the on-screen toggle from Real Play to Fun Play and you can try the game without spending anything. Nothing won in Fun Play is real money, and games open in Real Play by default.

Is there a Stake app for players in India?

There is no native iOS or Android app, for players in India or anywhere else. The site runs as a progressive web app in your mobile browser, and adding it to your home screen gives you a full-screen shortcut that behaves like one.

What is the Stake Vault?

The Vault is separate storage for funds you are not playing with. It keeps several cryptocurrencies and local currencies behind two-factor authentication, and you can move money in and out whenever you like.

Player Reviews

4.8/5

From 10 player reviews of Stake

Cashed out in LTC late on a Sunday night and the confirmation came through in minutes. No forms, nobody reviewing the request, just the address and it was done.

The Originals are the reason I stay. Mines and Dragon Tower are simple enough to play with half your attention, and being able to check the seeds afterwards is a nice touch.

Rakeback genuinely adds up once you reach Bronze. My one gripe is that $10k of wagering is a long haul before anything unlocks, so the opening stretch feels rather empty.

Crazy Time and the Lightning tables never stutter, even on hotel wifi. The dealers are professional and the stream is sharper than on most sites I have used.

Free streaming on the sportsbook is what brought me across. Having the match in the same tab as the bet slip takes a lot of the guesswork out of in-play betting.

Enormous slot library and the exclusives really are different. The downside is that there is no proper app, so you depend on the browser shortcut, which logs me out now and then.

The poker room is busier than I expected from a casino site. Plenty of Hold em cash tables going, and the fast-fold format suits you when there are only twenty minutes to spare.

The Vault is an underrated feature. I park whatever I am not playing with in there and it stops me tilting away a decent session at two in the morning.

Daily Races are worth chasing if you are on regularly, though the leaderboard is competitive and you need serious volume to place. Weekly raffle tickets come far easier.

Chat support replied inside a minute when a deposit did not turn up. It was a network issue in the end and they traced it without me having to follow up.

Updated 2026-08-16