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3 years ago

The casino in question is stake.com. I was bonus hunting slots from provider Pragmatic Play of which is stated on the website that you can spin into a bonus and it will save it for a certain amount of time, and if it is not opened in that certain time it will automatically settle the bet. I had 6 bonuses from spinning the following slots from Pragmatic play, Santa's Great Gifts, The Dog Mansion Megaways Enhanced RTP, Big Bass Splash, Sweet Bonanza, Gates of Olympus and Sugar Rush. The bonuses were NOT opened in the 2 week time frame that Stake Employees said and when I came back after the 2 weeks the only bet that was in my betting history was the Gates bonus.

I knew something was wrong right away as the bonus only paid back a 2.4x multiplier of my bet which is impossible as the bonus has a minimum 4x win just for getting into the bonus. None of my other bonuses that I listed above were there and when I reached out to support about it, they informed me it was a provider issue (pragmatic play) and they would look into and resolve it in 24 hours. Fast forward 2 days later and I reach out again for an update and the support agent said exactly, "There was a issue with your game rounds and they got voided and you got bet amount refunded for them." The only thing that was "refunded" was the Gates Bonus and again it paid a multiplier which is impossible.

I was told they were still working on it and they would see what the potential payout was and credit my account for it. Another few days goes by and I finally get a message from this time a tech support officer, He then lists 2 bet IDs (none of which are in my betting history to confirm even which slot it is) and issues me a credit for an extraordinarily low dollar amount. When I explained and listed which slots I had bonuses in, he said they "investigated" it and determined only 2 of the bonuses paid anything and that "Bonus buy rounds do not guarantee that you will have winnings on them." This is a straight up lie right away as it is listed on pragmatics websites what the minimum wins are for bonuses on their slots and he is trying to tell me that 4 of them paid $0.

I demand for replays of this which is ignored and then sends a DIFFERENT list of Bet IDs from before which again, do not match or show up at all on the betting history. I then understandably am very upset and demand to speak to higher authority and list how it is impossible for the slots listed above from Pragmatic Play to pay $0. I explained how the previous bet IDs didn't match and there was once again no record of any of it. I asked to see replays of the bonuses, of which you can ask for and they HAVE to provide, I was ignored for the 3rd time.

I was told once again by now my 4th support agent they were going to look into it further and see what was wrong. Few more days goes by and I get a a list of bet IDs that now show up on my account, but are NOT from the bonuses. They pulled old IDs from spins on the above mentioned slots saying those were the bonuses that paid 0, of which I explained they can not do. When I mention this they send me yet again to a different agent who says "Unfortunately, we are not able to assist you further with this." and to contact tech support again. I am at a lose for words as Stake.com is supposedly a very reputable and trusted site. I do not know what else to do as it is clearly a case of a glitch that they are refusing to deal with. Please get back to me as I am now trying to find a way to reachout to the gaming commission and file a case with them. I have screenshots of all evidence if needed but I do not see where I can link files to this message. This is there gaming license 8048/JAZ

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Dear @twentysixxx,

The AskGamblers Complaint Team is kindly asking you to assist the Stake Casino team further and send the required verification paperwork.

Please keep in mind that as per the AGCCS Terms and Guidelines which you accepted upon registering and using our complaints system, you are obliged to provide the necessary level of assistance and cooperation during the process, therefore please make sure to confirm by posting the public message if you have provided requested information.

Should you refuse sending the required verification paperwork, or fail to confirm, we will have no other choice but to reject the case and recommend you forwarding it to the relevant regulatory body.

Thanks for your cooperation.

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Dear Sirs,

As you might know, you register at Stake.com by identifying yourself as a Canadian resident. However, when you were requested to provide proof of identification you provided a US identification document with a US address. Since Stake does not accept US customers (as stated in clause 11 of its Terms of Services), we have suspended your account and sent you an additional identification request to provide proof of residence and ensure that you are not a US resident.

Accordingly, in order to remove the suspension on your account, please upload a proof of address (KYC Level 3) on your Stake account so that we can confirm your address. Please note that you can provide the following documents as proof of address:
a) Utility bill (Water, gas, electricity). Stake does not accept telephone, internet, or mobile bills as proof of address;
b) Financial Statement issues by authorities;
c) Bank Statement.

Please note that the documents need to have been issued within the last 3 months.

After we upload the document, our Onboarding Team will evaluate the same and if approved, remove the suspension on your account. If you have any doubts, you ca contact our support team.

Best,
Stake
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Dear all,

Kindly note that the AskGamblers Complaint Team has just extended the response timeframe for another 96 hours in the hope that Stake Casino management will soon provide an update regarding this complaint.

Should the operator fail to provide such an update within the specified timeframes, the case shall be considered unresolved and will be closed accordingly. As a direct consequence of such closure, the operator's ranking score on AskGamblers will be decreased accordingly.

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Dear all,

This complaint has been reopened as per Stake Casino request and the AskGamblers Complaint Team would like to give it one more try and help both parties involved into the dispute reach a satisfactory resolution.

Stake Casino Complaint Stats

Resolved 45 / 50
Avg. Amount $12,610
Avg. Complaint Duration 10 days
Avg. Response Time 2 days

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Forever in verification

Start playing on Stake.com on 14/02/2026.

Made deposits and withdrawals without any problems. Account VIP status GOLD. Account minus -12000 USDT. I was playing slots, a little bit of sportsbook.

11/03/2026 I placed bets of 1500 USDT on a basketball match, won 1400 USDT. When I try to withdraw money i received a notification that I need to submit verification again from LEVEL 2 to LEVEL 4.

But now I need to send for a LEVEL 2 selfie with documents and paper with nickname and date.

LEVEL 3 - proof of address LEVEL 4 - bank statement and payslips.

I made it! Load documents for LEVEL 2 - COMPLETED, LEVEL 3 - COMPLETED, LEVEL 4 - reviewing. The next day, I wrote again to support and asked why it took so long to review LEVEL4. They ask me to check my mail. In my mail was a letter «please confirm verification by link…»

I also completed this verification by linking it was third party verification service, not stake.com! By the way i made it.

After all this i wrote again to Stake.com support. They told me that I need to wait. After it i received a letter from someone from stake again with requirements to complete another verification with a new link. I wrote to support and ask what this is. They answered me that I need to wait and update my page when the results are in.

So I read a lot of complaints and understand that the current situation is in forever verification.

So I ask you to help me to solve it and to get my money back from this suspicious website.

Status rejected Rejected
$1,400
Account suspended and Stake rejecting notarized legal affidavit and bills

I am writing to formally request a thorough review of my account (Username: < sent to the casino >), which has been frozen despite my providing extensive and legally valid verification documents. I recently experienced a successful streak in sports betting, which brought my account balance to approximately $6,000.

Unfortunately, I am currently unable to access these funds due to the Level 2–4 verification requirements imposed on my account, but since they have right to ask for KYC anytime I am happily cooperating with them.


I am 18 years old, a full-time student, and reside with my family in Uttam Nagar, New Delhi, India.

I tried sumbitting Level 2 and after multiple reupload and a verrif verifiction it was finally confirmed.

For level 3, I was asked to provide the bills in my name even though I mentioned that I am a student.

In India, it is very common for students to live with their parents, and therefore, all utility bills and residence-related payments are naturally under the parent’s name. In my case, all official bills for our residence are registered under my father’s name, Vedpal Singh.

I tried to tell chat support about this and happily they understood and asked me to upload my father's bill and a signed and notary document claiming that I am a p art of that community


To comply fully with Stake’s verification requirements, I have submitted the following "Standard" documents:

Father’s Utility and Financial Documents: I provided his Airtel DTH bills alongside his State Bank of India (SBI) bank statements for the past three months, proving active household payments.

Notarized Residency Affidavit (e-Stamp Certificate No: IN-DL73853644033532Y): This legally sworn affidavit confirms my current residence and explicitly establishes my connection to my father. I obtained this official document at my own expense specifically upon request from your support team.

Official Domicile Certificate & OBC Caste Certificate: Both government-issued documents clearly display my permanent address, further confirming my residence at my family home.

My Aadhaar Card: My National ID matches the exact address on all the above documents, establishing perfect consistency.


Despite submitting this overwhelming amount of legal and government-issued proof, my account verification continues to be stalled and rejected for different reason everytime. The recurring automated feedback asks for utility bills in my name, which is impossible given my circumstances:

Electricity: In Delhi, households consuming less than 200 units per month receive a 100% subsidy and do not generate a standard payable electricity bill.

Water: Our family uses a common submersible pump system, which does not generate individual municipal water bills.

Both of these are very common in INDIA, especially in DELHI region since its modern household.


I am not claiming that stake is doing it on purpose, but I just want to convey them that there must be a verification loop that I am stuck in that is causing this all since I want to emphasize that I have provided all available legal and government-issued proof to establish both my identity and my physical residence. These documents carry severe legal weight in my country and they can be verified too digitally and should satisfy any reasonable verification requirements, yet the account freeze remains.


I kindly request that Stake's higher management urgently review the documents I have submitted and lift the freeze on my account, allowing me access to my legitimate winnings. I have acted in good faith, fully complying with your process, and this situation has caused significant stress.

Thank you very much for your attention and understanding. I sincerely hope that this matter will be resolved swiftly since as a 18 year old student, I am not able to focus on my studies due to this and spent most of time collecting documents just to get them rejected for unknown reasons.


Sincerely,


Status rejected Rejected
$6,000
Verification process stalled

I am filing this complaint because it feels like Stake is not actually trying to verify my account anymore, but instead repeatedly adding new requirements to prevent and prolong my withdrawal of 7184 USDT.

It all started when I received an email telling me that my account has been temporarily suspended, and that i need to contact them. Thats when they told me that i need to verify my account, which is level 3 and 4 since I had already verified level 1 and 2.

I moved to level 3 verification where I needed to provide proof of address. I decided to use electricity bills. Normally i throw my electricity bills away after paying them, so the only copies I had were digital. Apparently that was not acceptable so I had to go and individually print them out.

I then uploaded photos of the electricity bills in paper form. These were rejected because they said there was no proof of income included. Nowhere in the level 3 instructions did it say that proof of income was required at that stage, they let me know that after they had declined the utility bills. This is where it started to feel like the requirements for this whole verification process were changing.

To move forward, I uploaded everything again, this time combining my electricity bills together with bank statements from the last three months into a single PDF document. After doing that the verification was finally accepted and I passed level 3.

Then came level 4 verification. For level 4 they required bank statements and pay slips from the last three months. I gathered those documents and submitted them, my account was succesfully verified to level 4, my account was now fully verified.

After completing all these verification steps, I then attempted to withdraw my funds.

However, when I tried to do that I recieved the following message: "We have temporarily suspended your account for a suspected breach of our terms of service. Please contact [email protected] for information on how to resolve this."

Which was confusing because my account had been fully verified, I contacted them by email asking what this was about. Instead of explaining any actual breach of terms they tell me that my level 4 verification has been updated, I go and look and I see that it has been revoked, and that I now need to complete level 4 again.

This time they are demanding that my proof of income documents must be provided in physical paper form and signed and stamped by my employer.

At this point it became clear to me that this whole process was no longer about verifying my account, but rather about delaying me from gaining access to my own funds.

What makes this even more unreasonable is that the documents I already provided clearly prove my income. My pay slips come directly from my payroll/banking system and clearly show the company paying my salary, payment amounts, dates, and all necessary details.

These documents cannot be altered and are already official financial records.

Yet now i am being asked to provide signed and stamped paper versions of documents that i do not even receive in that format. My pay slips are generated digitally, which is completely normal.

This entire situation feels like Stake is just trying to make this harder for me to get my money back by making requirements impossible to meet, like I already haven't put everything on the table for them.

Just want my money back from them, this is absolute mockery.

Stake username is Henkkawaa

Status solved Resolved
$7,184
Stake refuses to accept my documents

On the 25th of February 2026, I received an email from Stake, telling me my account had been temporarily suspended, and that I needed to reach out to Stake support to solve this.

I was told I needed to redo my level 2 verification, which I did, and then later on I needed to also complete level 3 and 4 verification.

Since then, I have been stuck on level 3 verification, endlessly trying to solve this issue, but getting no proper help, which has now led me here.

Level 3 verification on Stake means you need to prove your address. I want to start off by mentioning that I live with my parents, and I don't get any type of utility bill in my name.

Firstly, I was advised to send my utility bills as proof of address, all utility bills in the last 3 months, along with proof that they have been paid.

I explained to the support agent that I don't have access to that, since I don't live alone, and that the utility bills are sent in my mom's name.

Then the support agent said this: "You may use a bill in your parents' name; however, you must provide a signed and stamped document issued by the governing body of your Country which can prove that you are indeed mutual residents." (Check attached files for proof) - Remember this, it will come in handy later.

After a while going back and forth with the support agent, he sent me a list of accepted documents, which are as follows:

- Utility bill E.g. electricity, gas, water, Internet, and TV bills

- Bank or credit card statement

- Council tax, municipality bill, or government tax letter

- An official letter from your employer or educational institution confirming your address, stamped, and signed

- Tenancy agreement letter

- Bank Reference Letter

Out of these documents, I am able to get two of them (bank statement and tax letter), the others are impossible for me, since I don't live alone, and my employer said the only document like this they have is the electronic pay slip, which states my address.

I explained this to the support agent, and he told me to send a bank reference letter.

So I first tried with my Revolut bank, thinking that would be the fastest solution, but then they also required me to include a bank statement along with my bank reference letter from Revolut. At this time, having no complaints about Revolut.

Once I submitted both documents, now all of the sudden it wasn't acceptable, and I was again advised to provide the impossible utility bills.

A couple of days later of back and forth, I managed to get a bank statement from my bank, which is Aktia, a Finnish bank, which is where I live.

I submitted this, which states to be an acceptable document according to Stake, but was then told it can only be accepted if combined with a bank reference letter.

So, I called my bank and asked them if they could provide me with that, but I was told that in English, they only have something called a "letter of recommendation". This document includes: Name, Social Security Number, Address, Starting date of customer relationship, account numbers in IBAN format, and BIC code, and this document was stamped and signed.

As this document had all the requirements, I sent it in, in combination with my bank statement, but again, rejected. I wasn't told why, only that stake couldn't accept it, and I needed to go back to my bank again, asking for a bank reference letter, which needs to include: Full name and address

Date of account issuing and type of account

Date the letter was issued

Must be signed and stamped by the responsible person who issued that document.

Must be photographed, Bank contact information and must be written in English.

The exact same details exist in the letter of recommendation.

I called my bank again, and they told me the same thing: there is no such thing as a bank reference letter in Aktia, only a letter of recommendation.

I even got them to send me a message through my bank app, confirming that that is the case.

I went back to Stake again, explaining this, and they kept insisting on a bank reference letter, without ever telling me which details were missing in the letter of agreement, which would deem it unacceptable.

I even tried with a tax letter (tax card) which was sent to me by the government, but that wasn't accepted either, although Stake states they accept Tax letters.

So I'm now at a point where I have gotten all the documents I can, multiple of them are included in the list of acceptable documents at Stake, yet over and over again, I keep getting rejected, and asked to provide multiple documents that don't exist, or I can't get.

I later on asked the support agent (a new one) if I can submit my mothers utility bills, along with a document that proves I also live at the same address, but now, the agent claims that under no circumstance can a utility bill be accepted if it is in another persons name, which completely contradicts what the earlier support agent told me, and suggested I'd do.

So now I have no faith in this Stake support, they have shown that they lie, and withhold information, and when you confront them about it, all they do is respond with the same generic responses: "Sorry but this document isn't acceptable, I can't tell you why, it just isn't, please get this document instead" - but then when I suggest getting those documents they say they aren't acceptable, how ironic.

That's where I'm up to now. I hope the AskGamblers community can help me with this, since there is no point in talking to Stake anymore.

All proof of these chats has been included in the Attached Files.

Thank you, and looking forward to getting this resolved swiftly.

Status rejected Rejected
$14,000
Account blocked and verification made impossible
Five weeks ago my account got suspended and I was told the restrictions would only be lifted once I verified my account all the way up to level 4 (Source of Funds). I have approximately €7000 balance.

After I finally managed to complete level 3, for which I had to obtain a stamped and signed bank statement, I am now stuck on level 4 for 3 weeks.
I have submitted anything I can reasonable expect to be able to submit, considering the fact I am a professional gambler and don't have traditional payslips as such. I have uploaded a bank statement for the last 12 months showing all incoming and outgoing gambling transactions. This was rejected after a week of waiting, without any explanation as to why.
I then uploaded a statement from the bookmaker I use the most, making sure the exact specifications outlined by stake were included (Customer name, Account number, Betting firm's name and address). This also got refected without any explanation.

I have contacted stake numerous times asking them to specify what document they require from a professional gambler to prove source of funds. Whatever it is, I can provide it. But all I keep getting in response is a standard email with a link to their acceptable documentation (which clearly is not acceptable, as I have uploaded the only 2 documents on the list I could possibly provide in my position). And since my documents keep getting rejected without explanation, I have no idea how to proceed.

I ask Askgamblers to please help me get my account unlocked or else at least obtain a clear answer from Stake as to which document they require from me to prove my source of funds, considering the fact I don't have payslips.

Thanks in advance
Status solved Resolved
€7,000
Complaint Regarding Unjustified Bonus Cancellation by Stake
I am submitting a formal complaint against Stake Casino regarding the unjustified cancellation of a promotion bonus, despite fulfilling all terms and conditions required.
On 23 January 2026, I received an official promotional email from Stake Casino offering the following:
“Bet $300 every day for 5 days and earn a $300 bonus.”
I fully complied with all requirements by placing at least $300 each day on 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 January 2026. I also carefully checked the promotion terms and confirmed that poker games were not eligible, so I refrained from playing poker during the promotion period.
Additionally, I contacted Stake’s live support to ask whether I could place multiple smaller bets instead of one larger bet to fulfill the wagering requirement, and I was clearly told that this was allowed.
Despite completing all requirements, the bonus was not credited to my account on 28 January 2026 as expected. After contacting Stake, I received two official responses:
Stake’s customer support stated:
"Thank you for your patience. According to the information received from the relevant department, unfortunately this account is not eligible for the bonus campaign. As the evaluation criteria are not publicly disclosed, we regret that we are unable to share further details on this matter."
Furthermore, I was told:
"The promotion team made this decision based on their own evaluation; however, they did not share the reason for this decision with us. Therefore, we are unable to provide a clear explanation. Furthermore, this decision is final and cannot be reversed."
In addition to this, after submitting a formal complaint to Stake, I was informed that the decision was made by their internal team, that customer support has no information regarding this process, and that they are unable to provide any further explanation.
As shown above, Stake Casino cancelled the bonus without offering a specific reason, citing confidential evaluation criteria and refusing to provide any form of appeal or clarification. I believe this is unfair, lacks transparency, and violates the responsible gaming practices.
I am respectfully requesting that AskGamblers assist in resolving this issue, and I kindly ask that Stake Casino either provide a valid and clear justification for the cancellation or credit the earned bonus to my account.
Relevant evidence, including the promotional email, betting history, and support communications, can be provided upon request.
Status solved Resolved