Stake Casino

How to join Stake

Registering with Stake takes a couple of minutes, and there's no software to install. After that, your Stake login is just your username or email plus a password. Wagering counts from your very first real-money bet – towards the day's race, the week's raffle and your climb to Bronze.

1. Tap Sign up at the top of the screen.
2. Add your email address.
3. Pick a username – other players see it in chat and at the poker tables.
4. Create a strong password, and once you're in, switch on two-factor authentication too.
5. Tick the box to accept our terms and confirm you're 18 or over.
6. Open the wallet, choose a coin and fund the account – or flip any game to Fun Play and have a free look around first.

Identity checks (KYC) are part of how a licensed casino runs. We'll ask you to verify your account before your first withdrawal, or sooner if an account check calls for it: usually a photo ID such as a passport or NZ driver licence, a recent bank statement or power bill as proof of address, and now and then a selfie with the ID. Sharp, uncropped photos go through quickest.

Coming back later? Hit the login button in the header, enter your username or email and password, and confirm the two-factor prompt if it's on – or use a passkey, which saves typing on a phone. Lost your password? The reset option on the login screen emails you a link to set a new one.

An online casino in New Zealand built around rewards

We've been running since 2017, and these days more than 100 million players visit us every month. The idea behind Stake is simple: reward play all the way through, not just on day one. That's why the VIP Club, the daily race and the weekly raffle sit at the centre of the site. The casino lobby holds 6,000+ games – pokies from 260+ publishers, our own provably fair Stake Originals, exclusives you can only play here and a live casino with over 150 tables and game shows. Next door, the sportsbook takes more than 100,000 bets a day on football, cricket, tennis, basketball, MMA and esports. Add a poker room, free Fun Play on most casino games, a browser-based mobile version and live chat that never closes. It suits Kiwi players who like steady value for steady play – and who'd rather check a result than take it on trust.

Stake games and the studios behind them

We don't lean on a single supplier. The pokies come from more than 260 publishers – from Pragmatic Play, Nolimit City, Hacksaw Gaming and Play'n GO to Push Gaming, Spribe, Endorphina, Relax Gaming, BGaming and Novomatic. The live side is mostly Evolution, backed up by Animo Studios and Pragmatic Play Live. A third group – Paperclip Gaming, Shady Lady, Massive Studios, Mirror Image Gaming, Twist Gaming, Uppercut Gaming and Titan Gaming – builds for us alone on the Stake Engine, our own remote gaming server.

New games

Fresh releases are where the Stake Engine earns its keep. Many burst games reach us in early access, and the Only on Stake shelf keeps growing – Jewel Bonanza, Koi Pond and Sweet Fiesta 1000 from Pragmatic Play, AvatarUX's POP Royale with a 98% RTP and Titan Gaming's space-themed Wild Orbs. Gates of Heaven and Lucky Phoenix Megaways run as Enhanced RTP editions, paying back more than their standard versions. Among our Originals, Moles, Drill, Tarot and Chicken are the newest.

Crash and instant games

Got ten minutes and want an answer fast? Our Originals keep it stripped back: choose a bet, pick a risk level, watch it play out. Crash and Limbo ask you to bank before the multiplier stops climbing, Mines is Minesweeper with money on the line and Plinko bounces a ball down to a multiplier. Slide has the longest odds on the site, topping out in the billions. Burst games drop reels and paylines altogether – Drop the Boss, Aviamasters, Pachinko Planet and MineDrop are good places to start.

Table games

Blackjack, roulette and baccarat come three ways: RNG, Stake Originals and live. Our Original Blackjack is the one to know – a 0.57% house edge, or 99.43% RTP. With roulette, the rule set matters more than the felt suggests:

Baccarat includes our Original version, live tables and Lightning Baccarat. Card players also get a real multiplayer poker room – Omaha, Texas Hold'em, Pineapple and All-in or Fold across cash games, tournaments and fast-fold Next! – with a US$500,000 All-in or Fold jackpot and a US$1,000,000 Bad Beat jackpot over the top.

Live casino

Our live casino streams 150+ titles in HD with real dealers. Blackjack comes as Infinite, Speed, Free Bet and Power, plus VIP tables with higher limits; Lightning Roulette and XXXtreme Lightning Roulette add random multipliers; Sic Bo, Dragon Tiger and Red Door Roulette keep things varied. Game shows are the loud end of the room – Crazy Time with four bonus rounds and wins up to 20,000x, Monopoly Live, Funky Time and Mega Wheel.

Pokies

Pokies are the busiest corner of the lobby. Gates of Olympus 1000, Sugar Rush 1000 and Sweet Bonanza 2500 get the most spins, and Hacksaw's Le Bandit, Le Viking and Le Cowboy share mechanics as one linked series. Formats run from classic video slots to Megaways with up to 117,649 ways, cascading reels, bonus buys and jackpot pokies – fixed prizes of 1,000x to 10,000x or progressives into the millions. Theme pages – fruit, Egypt, animals, the Far East – make browsing easy.

Sports betting at Stake

Our sportsbook shares one wallet with the casino, so there's no shuffling money between balances. It takes more than 100,000 bets a day, shows odds in decimal, fractional or American format, and streams selected events free to anyone logged in. What's on the board:

• Football – La Liga, the Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, MLS and the A-League
• Basketball – NBA, NCAA and EuroLeague
• Tennis – ATP and WTA tours, the Grand Slams and Challengers
• Cricket, boxing, MMA, Formula 1 and horse racing
• Esports – Valorant, Dota 2, Counter-Strike 2, Call of Duty and League of Legends, plus EA Sports FC and Rocket League
• Novelty markets on politics and entertainment

All the usual bet types are there:

• Match winner, 1X2 and moneyline
• Over/under, both teams to score and correct score
• Asian and European handicaps
• Player props and goalscorer markets
• Multis, plus same-game multis built in the bet builder
• Outrights and futures

Pre-match and live betting both run here. In-play odds move with the action, football adds next goal, corners and cards, and cash out lets you settle early. If one leg of a multi lets you down, Stake Shield can still return a payout, and the bet tracker follows every open selection. And a tip for sports fans: wagering on sport moves your VIP progress three times faster than casino play.

Bonuses and promotions at Stake

Here's our take on a casino bonus in New Zealand: rather than one big sign-up deal wrapped in fine print, we put the money into prize pools that refill every day and every week, and into a VIP Club that keeps paying for as long as you play. Across the site we've handed out more than US$1 billion in bonuses so far. The regular line-up looks like this:

Welcome bonus

We don't run a classic matched deposit bonus. What a new account gets instead starts with the very first bet: your wagering counts towards the day's race and the week's raffle straight away, and it builds towards Bronze, where rakeback begins. With no deposit match, there's no sign-up wagering requirement hanging over your balance either. To show how it adds up, here's what a player who sticks to casino games would see as their total wagering grows:

Put the same play through the sportsbook and the progress column moves three times as fast – Bronze arrives after a little over US$3,300 of sports wagering.

Daily races

Every 24 hours, a US$100,000 prize pool is split between the players at the top of the race leaderboard. Your position depends on how much you've wagered that day, not on one lucky hit, so steady play is what moves you up. Each day is a fresh race, which means a quiet Tuesday costs you nothing on Wednesday. If you're on most days, it's worth checking your spot before you log off.

Weekly raffle

Once a week we draw US$75,000 in raffle prizes. The maths is easy: every US$1,000 you wager earns one ticket, and tickets stack. More tickets mean more chances in the draw – no single ticket gets better odds, you simply hold more of them. If you can't grind a daily leaderboard, the raffle is the friendlier of the two, because every ticket is a genuine shot.

Challenges and tournaments

Alongside the fixed pools we run a rotating calendar of events. Stake Wheel Wars is the headline act and comes round every month, while Conquer the Casino and Stake vs Eddie each bring a pool of their own. Multiplier Mania and a steady stream of casino, slot and sports challenges fill the gaps. Over on our community forum, smaller challenges go to whoever lands the highest multiplier on a named game – a nice target if you like chasing big hits on small bets.

Sports promotions

The sportsbook has offers of its own, mostly tied to particular fixtures. Look out for boosted odds on chosen teams and events, money back on horse racing when your pick finishes anywhere from second to fifth, split decision insurance on UFC, an MLB ninth-innings refund and early payout deals across the major football leagues.

Monthly bonuses and reloads

From Bronze up you also collect weekly and monthly bonuses. The monthly one lands around the 15th and is worked out from your recent play – every US$1,000 wagered adds to it. Profit counts as well as wagering, so a bad run doesn't lock you out; a rough patch usually lifts the amount rather than shrinking it. From Platinum I, reloads join in: top-ups you claim from the VIP tab yourself, on a daily or even hourly cycle.

VIP Club and rakeback

Nobody needs an invitation. Wager US$10,000 in total and your account moves into Bronze automatically – that's the moment rakeback starts. Rakeback hands you back part of the house edge on each wager, whether it wins or not, and that share gets bigger as you climb. Here's the ladder:

Four rewards run through the club: rakeback that never switches off, level-up bonuses that get larger each time you move up a tier, weekly and monthly bonuses based on your recent play and, further up, reloads. Your account page carries a progress bar showing the percentage left until the next tier, so you always know how close you are.

VIP hosts

At Platinum IV you're paired with a dedicated host. Your host renews your weekly reloads, helps plan your progression, reviews your sports limits and sets up extra bonuses when they're on offer. That comes on top of live chat, not instead of it – our support team still handles technical questions for every player, whatever the tier.

How deposits and withdrawals work

Our cashier is built around crypto. The wallet takes Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Tether (USDT), Solana, Dogecoin, TRON and EOS among others. Crypto deposits at Stake have no minimum and withdrawals aren't capped – each coin simply sets its own minimum withdrawal and network fee. Here's how the main options compare:

Speed on crypto comes down to the blockchain: once the network confirms the transaction, the coins are in your wallet. Before your first withdrawal we run the standard KYC check, so it pays to get your documents in early. All promotion figures, from races to VIP thresholds, are in US dollars.

Buying crypto with an NZ-issued card

No crypto yet? No drama. Through Moonpay or Swapped you can buy coins with a Visa or Mastercard from your New Zealand bank – ANZ, ASB, BNZ, Kiwibank, Westpac and the rest – and send them straight to your Stake wallet. If you already trade on an exchange, Swap Connect and Mesh link that account to your wallet, so there are no addresses to copy around.

The Stake Vault

The Vault is a separate pocket for money you're not playing with right now. It's locked behind two-factor authentication, holds several currencies at once and opens whenever you like. Park your winnings there and they're out of reach of a spur-of-the-moment bet – and of anyone who gets hold of your session.

Stake on mobile

There's no native iOS or Android app to download. Stake is an HTML5 progressive web app, so the mobile version opens in your phone's browser with nothing to install from a store and no updates to manage. Want it to feel like an app? Open the site, choose Add to Home Screen, and the icon launches full-screen straight into the lobby.

Everything works as it does on desktop, from deposits and bets to the race leaderboard and your VIP progress bar. Originals, burst games and live tables are designed for touch, and live sports streams run on a phone or tablet with the same picture settings as on a laptop.

Security and support

Is Stake safe and legit? Medium Rare N.V. owns and operates Stake, and we hold Curaçao Gaming Authority licence OGL/2024/1451/0918. SSL encryption protects your connection, two-factor authentication and passkeys guard the login, and the Vault puts idle funds behind a second lock. On our Originals, fair play is something you can prove for yourself: every round is recorded with cryptographic hashing, and the fairness button inside the game reveals the seeds behind your own results, ready to verify on site or with a third-party tool.

Responsible gambling

Our Stake Smart section puts the controls in your hands. From your account you can set:

• Deposit, loss and wager limits
• Session reminders and breaks in play
• Cooling-off periods
• Self-exclusion

You'll also find a self-assessment test and a monthly budget calculator, and our support team can close your account or apply a longer exclusion on request. Accounts are for over-18s only. If gambling stops feeling like entertainment, the Gambling Helpline and the Problem Gambling Foundation offer free, confidential support to New Zealanders.

Customer support

Live chat is open 24/7 and handles everything from a missing deposit to login trouble or a game that won't load. Beyond chat, you've got:

• A help centre with guides on payments, games and the VIP Club
• Our community forum, home to challenges, player chat and currency guides
• A blog updated every week with new releases, big wins and betting analysis
• A personal VIP host from Platinum IV, on top of live chat