How Stake.us works

Gold Coins vs. Stake Cash

• Gold Coins (GC) are for fun play only. They have no monetary value and can’t be redeemed for prizes. You get them when you sign up, from the daily bonus, from promotions, and in Gold Coin packages. Gold Coins still count toward VIP progress, at a lower rate than Stake Cash.
• Stake Cash (SC) is the sweepstakes token. It also has no monetary value, and Stake.us doesn’t sell it: Stake Cash only comes through free, promotional offers. Play with Stake Cash is the only play that can lead to prizes.
• Gold Coins can’t be converted into Stake Cash.

The welcome offer: 25 Stake Cash and 250,000 Gold Coins

New users who sign up through our Stake.us sign-up link get 25 Stake Cash and 250,000 Gold Coins.

• Verify your account and your email address within 3 days of registering.
• Stake.us then emails a coupon for 250K Gold Coins + 25 Stake Cash to your verified email address.

Claim 25 Stake Cash + 250K Gold Coins

Every way to get Stake Cash

• Daily bonus, free every day: 1 Stake Cash plus Gold Coins, claimed from your Wallet. It resets every 24 hours, so log in daily to collect it.
• Free with Gold Coin packages: specifically marked packs include Stake Cash as a free bonus, and the amount is shown before you get the pack.
• Mail-in request: send a handwritten request card, at least 4" x 6" and unfolded, in a stamped envelope to Sweepsteaks Limited, 13101 Preston RD STE 110-5027, Dallas, TX 75240, with "Stake Cash Credits" on the envelope and the details listed in section 8.3 of the Stake.us Terms, including your unique postcard code. Each valid card gets 5 Stake Cash.
• Social giveaways and bonus drops: codes posted on Stake.us’s Telegram, X and Instagram, entered under Account > Settings > Offers. They are limited in time and in total.
• Daily Race: a 50M GC race every day, free to join. The top 100 win daily, and every game played climbs the leaderboard.
• Weekly Giveaway: 250M GC plus 25K SC every week, with 1 entry per 1,000 SC played. The draw is Saturdays at 10am EDT on kick.com/Eddie; play between 2 and 3PM GMT doesn’t count, and KYC may be required.
• Limited-time promotions such as RNG Rush (a share of 50K SC or 500M GC, ending 11/9/2026), Weekly Wrapped (a share of 50K SC or 500M GC, ending 11/6/2026) and Challenges (be the first to beat a target multiplier on a selected game).
• The welcome offer through our sign-up link, plus birthday bonuses and the VIP rewards below: rakeback, reloads, and weekly and monthly bonuses.

Stake.us VIP: rakeback, reloads and bonuses

Climbing the Stake.us VIP ranks unlocks more rewards. Everything you play counts, including poker: Gold Coins and Stake Cash combine, with 2 million GC played counting as 1 SC.

• Ranks run Bronze (10,000 SC or 20 billion GC played), Silver (50,000 SC), Gold (100,000 SC), Platinum I to VI (from 250,000 SC), Diamond I to V (from 25,000,000 SC) and Obsidian (1,000,000,000 SC).
• Rank-up bonuses in SC and GC as soon as you reach a new rank.
• Rakeback from Bronze: 3.5% of the edge on every amount you play, found under Account > VIP > Rakeback.
• Weekly Boost from Bronze, released Saturdays at 12:30pm GMT in the VIP Telegram channel, and a Monthly Bonus by email on a random date. Both grow with your rank and how much you played.
• Reloads from Platinum: bonuses you claim at set intervals, from 14 to 42 days long by rank. At Platinum IV they continue while you stay active, claimable every hour, every 6 hours or once a day, and you get a dedicated VIP host.

Sign up and claim your daily bonus

The 3x play-through before redeeming

Stake Cash must be played through 3 times before it can be redeemed, except Stake Cash won in sweepstakes play. Stake.us’s own example: 10 bonus Stake Cash means 30 Stake Cash of play first. You can track progress in the Redemption section.

Redeeming Stake Cash for prizes

• Go to Wallet > Redeem, then confirm with your 2FA code or the code Stake.us emails you.
• Stake Cash is redeemed as a prize via crypto or bank transfer. One Stake Cash redeems at an implied rate of 1 USD, and crypto amounts follow the coin’s USD market price at the time.
• Crypto prizes come in the same cryptocurrency you used for Gold Coin packages.
• Bank transfer is available once the account has at least one successful card purchase. When your Stake Cash balance is at zero, you can switch between crypto and bank for the future.
• There is a redemption minimum; Stake.us doesn’t publish the number, and it shows in your wallet.
• No prize can be redeemed until identity verification is complete. Verification runs through Veriff, with a live photo of an ID card or driver’s license plus a selfie.
• Stake.us processes one redemption request per 24 hours, in the order received, and may split large prizes across days. In Florida, redemptions are capped at 5,000 USD per day.

Who can play Stake.us

• You must be 21 or older.
• Stake.us is open in the continental U.S. and Hawaii, except Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia. The Stake.us help center also lists Oklahoma.

The games

• Lobby groups: Slots, Table Games, Live Dealers, Burst Games, Feature Spins, Scratch Cards, Challenges and New Releases.
• Stake Originals: Blackjack, Plinko, Mines, Keno, Dice, Chicken, Crash, Limbo, Hilo and Slide.
• Live dealer games come from ICONIC21 and Evolution.

Stake.us poker

Stake.us poker is at stake.us/casino/games/poker, and you log in to play. It runs in the browser or in the iOS app “Stake US - Poker”.

Games and formats

• Texas Hold’em, Omaha (PLO4, plus 5-card PLO5 and 6-card PLO6) and Pineapple.
• Ring games you can join or leave anytime, scheduled tournaments, and Sit & Gos that start once enough players register. Tournament types include Knockout, Mystery Bounty, Re-entry, Satellite and Multi-flight, and satellite tickets can enter set tournaments.
• Next! fast-fold: fold and jump straight to a new hand at a new table, at selected No Limit Hold’em tables and tournaments. All in or Fold tables are also offered.
• At No Limit and Pot Limit ring tables, the minimum you bring to the table is one big blind, and only chips on the table before a hand can be played in it. No maximum is published.

Blind levels

• Ring tables: SC 0.01/0.02 up to SC 2.5/5, and GC 100/200 up to 25,000/50,000.
• All in or Fold jackpot tables: SC 0.04/0.08, 0.20/0.50, 1/2.50 and 4/8, and GC 5/10 up to 500/1,000.
• Next! Drops tables: 6-max, SC 0.01/0.02 up to SC 0.25/0.50.

Poker tournaments and promotions

• Poker Showdown: Oct 5 to Dec 31, 2026, with SC 100,000+ guaranteed. Satellite steps at SC 0.50, SC 10 and SC 100, or a direct seat for SC 1,000.
• Treasure Hunt: SC 10,000 guaranteed every Saturday, an SC 20 Mystery Bounty in the Tournaments tab.
• JAQKpot!: a 3-max hyper-turbo Sit & Go with a random prize pool up to 20,000x or SC 1,000,000. Entries at SC 0.50, 2, 10 and 50, up to 4 at a time. Most prize pools go winner-take-all; 50x and above go to the top 3.
• Next! Drops: SC 1,000,000 in random drops worth 3 to 100 big blinds, only on Next! 6-max tables from SC 0.01/0.02 to SC 0.25/0.50. Once the million is gone, the drops end.
• All in or Fold Jackpot: 500,000. It triggers on a straight flush or royal flush using both hole cards at showdown, at AoF tables marked with the jackpot icon.
• Bad Beat Jackpot: 1,000,000. Qualifying beaten hands are Hold’em 2222x+, PLO4 4444x+, PLO5 8888x+ and PLO6 JJJJx+, with 4+ players dealt in. It is built from 3% of ring rake; 5.6% goes to the losing hand, 3.5% to the winning hand and 2.1% is shared by the rest of the table.
• The full tournament schedule is in the Tournaments tab after you log in.

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