Stake.com is an Australian-Curaçaoan
online casino
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. It is operated by Medium Rare NV, a company incorporated in
Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coas ...
where it holds an online casino licence.
It is a global company with offices in Serbia, Australia,
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ...
and staff globally.
History
In 2016, Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani established Easygo, a company which developed games for online casinos.
The two helped create Stake.com, which was founded in 2017.
In December 2021, Stake.com launched in the UK in partnership with
TGP Europe
TGP Europe is a company operating multiple online gambling websites. Located in Douglas, Isle of Man.
Services
TGP Europe manages white-label partnerships for various overseas gambling businesses. Although these companies primarily focus on ...
.
Offerings
Stake.com offers traditional casino games (such as
slots,
blackjack and
roulette
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) and
sports betting
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.
It offers video streams with
live dealers.
Users on Stake.com typically do not deal with traditional currencies, instead they deposit and withdraw
cryptocurrencies
A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. It ...
to and from their betting account.
Account balances can be withdrawn in the equivalent value of cryptocurrency and then deposited back into the user's personal cryptocurrency wallet.
Users of Stake.com's UK site deal only in fiat currency.
Sponsorships
Stake.com has invested in sponsorship deals across several sports, including with UFC fighter
Israel Adesanya
Israel Mobolaji Odunayo Oluwafemi Temitayo Owolabi Adesanya (born 22 July 1989) is a New Zealand professional mixed martial artist, kickboxer, and former boxer with multiple championships in all three disciplines. As a mixed martial artist, h ...
, English football teams
Gillingham,
Watford
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Initially a small market town, the Grand Junction Canal en ...
,
Everton, Argentine footballer
Sergio Agüero
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,
Formula One
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reserve driver
Pietro Fittipaldi
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and his brother,
Formula 2
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driver
Enzo Fittipaldi
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, Canadian musician
Drake
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* A male duck
People and fictional characters
* Drake (surname), a list of people and fictional characters with the family name
* Drake (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name ...
, and the
Gennady Golovkin vs. Ryōta Murata boxing match.
In January 2023, the
Alfa Romeo F1
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team announced that Stake would be their title sponsor for the
2023 F1 season
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on a multi-year deal, with the team renamed to "Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake".
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References
Online casinos
Gambling companies established in 2017