Stake.us Casino Bonus Codes and Review June 2023

Overall, the Stake.us experience is pretty amazing, even compared to social casinos that have been around much longer. There are certainly a few hiccups, but they’re easy to overlook when you consider the ways in which Stake.us succeeds.

How does Stake.us work?

At Stake.us, you play the games with two kinds of currency: Gold Coins and Stake Cash. Both are only available within the game and are always available for free. In other words, you do not play with real money at Stake.us, which is why it is completely legal in almost all states. That said, if you win enough Stake Cash, you can redeem it for cryptocurrency prizes.

Gold Coins vs. Stake Cash

When you’re playing with Gold Coins (GC), you’re playing for fun (and to win more Gold Coins). You can purchase GC if you would like, but it also comes free in a variety of ways: at signup, with login bonuses, social media promotions, etc.

You can also play games at Stake.us with Stake Cash. If you do so and win, you can redeem your Stake Cash for cryptocurrency.

One key difference between GC and SC is that you can never purchase Stake Cash. You get it for free at signup. You also get SC for free with login bonuses and other promotions.

Additionally, you can mail in a request for free Stake Cash. This requires meeting some hyper-specific parameters. Stake.us and other social casinos offer this option because it’s part of the sweepstakes model that differentiates these platforms from real-money online casinos.

Signing up for Stake.us

To sign up for Stake.us, you’ll need to provide some personal information. Get started by visiting the website. Begin the registration process and fill out the requested details, including:

• Name
• Email
• Password (you will create one)
• Birthdate

From there, you’ll have to complete a verification process through a third-party app. This portion of the process is cumbersome, but it doesn’t take too long. Plus, it’s standard procedure that is required by law. You can get a link to the verification service via text message or by scanning an on-screen QR code.

The verification provider will have you take photos of your government-issued ID (usually a driver’s license or state ID). You’ll also need to snap a selfie. After that, Stake.us will show a loading screen promising the verification process takes only a few minutes. On review day, it took us about five minutes before we could visit the site and start playing games.

Special features

Stake has an impressive array of features and functionality. Most of them are very productive and useful, allowing you to stay on top of your account and filter through games.

One element of Stake.us that we wouldn’t miss if it went away? The chat. On the right-hand side of the screen, there’s a chat bar where you can interact with other users. It is a cesspool of trolling and useless drivel, and we recommend closing it and forgetting it ever existed as soon as you sign up. That said, obviously some people like it, so if you want to mingle with other users, it’s a unique element to Stake.us.

One critique you’ll often find in reviews of promotional sweepstakes casinos is a lack of game variety. You won’t find even a whisper of such things in this review. Stake has a great lineup and boasts a whole lot of variety. It’s the closest any social casino comes to its real money cousins by quite a stretch. The sheer number of games isn’t what’s important here, though there are plenty:

• almost 400 slots
• 3 live dealer games
• 8 table games
• 18 Stake Originals (with some overlap with table games)

Sure, those are impressive counts for a social casino. But the variety is what seals the deal. Stake.us Casino covers all the biggest game categories.

Slots

Slots are the bread and butter of any social casino, and Stake.us is no exception. You’ll find games from top developers like Hacksaw Gaming and Pragmatic Play, plus numerous other titles. With nearly 400 games to choose from, Stake has slots enthusiasts covered.

Table games

Stake.us Casino offers the following table games:

• Blackjack (Stake Originals)
• Hilo (Stake Originals)
• Roulette (Stake Originals)
• Video Poker (Stake Originals)
• Blackjack (Pragmatic Play)
• Roulette (Pragmatic Play)
• Baccarat (Stake Originals)
• Baccarat (Pragmatic Play)

This selection rivals those at other promotional sweepstakes casinos. It’s a nice bonus to have multiple versions of certain games (roulette, blackjack, baccarat) from Stake itself and trusted developer Pragmatic Play.

Live dealer

Stake offers three live dealer games from its in-house studio:

• Blackjack
• Roulette
• Baccarat

It’s a small selection, but live dealer games are exceedingly rare at social casinos. Simply by offering them, Stake sets itself apart from the competition.

Stake Originals

This library includes originals developed by the Stake team. These include:

• Plinko
• Dice
• Crash
• Mines
• Limbo
• Keno
• Wheel
• Dragon Tower
• Tome of Life
• Scarab Spin
• Diamonds
• Slide
• Blue Samurai

The games are minimal in their art style and features, but they’re fun to give a try. You can try them out by playing for zero Gold Coins if you want to get a feel for how they work.

Here’s a look at Stake’s purchase packages as of this writing:

There are a few things to note here. First, the prices of packages start at $20. Other social casinos offer packages for as low as $1.99, so Stake runs more expensive than its counterparts. Second, there’s a maximum daily purchase of $2,000.

But the elephant in the room is your payment options. You can only purchase Gold Coins with cryptocurrency at this point. Options include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin and a bevy of other digital currencies. You pay based on current conversion rates and must provide your unique cryptocurrency address to make a purchase.

If you don’t own crypto or don’t want to, you won’t be able to buy Gold Coins at Stake.

The same goes for redeeming your Stake Cash. You can choose to redeem it for cryptocurrency if you wish, though you must have enough to qualify for redemption. At the time of this writing, the minimum value required is about 58.34 Stake Cash to convert to Bitcoin. That came out to approximately 0.00197503 Bitcoin.

Stake does all this math for you, and the redemption window will notify you with red text if you don’t have enough to redeem your Stake Cash.

On the one hand, Stake.us is the only social casino riding the modern wave of cryptocurrency, so it fills a niche that no competitor offers.  On the other hand, using only crypto is pretty limiting, and it certainly alienates some customers. If you like crypto, you would probably rate this category a 5.  If you don’t like crypto, Stake.us is probably not for you.  So we are splitting the difference with our scoring.

It’s pretty easy to review Stake’s app, simply because it doesn’t exist.

While it would be great to have dedicated apps for iOS or Android, the mobile play score still remains relatively high because you can still play from your mobile device. Head to Stake.us via your mobile browser and log in to start playing on the go. The site is optimized to function well on a handheld device, so it will feel like a dedicated app even though you’re just on the Stake.us website.

Stake.us social casino offers a few ways to get your questions answered.

One is to search the FAQs in the help center.  This of course will give you general answers to the most common inquiries.

For more personalized service, you have two options.  Live chat is the most efficient way to get in touch with Stake’s customer service. We sent a message asking about playing on mobile, and a representative got back to us with a satisfactory answer within 15 minutes. It wasn’t lightning speed by any means, but we were able to play a few games while we waited.

You can also email [email protected], but usually the wait time is longer than live chat.

While we wish that Stake.us offered a phone number or even more instantaneous responses, you aren’t going to get much better at any competitor, so the social casino earns high marks in this category.

Stake.us is a bit of a roller coaster relative to other social and sweepstakes casinos. On the bright side, it offers an amazing array of games with some excellent variety. The user interface is slick and easy to navigate. You can get free Gold Coins just for signing in each day.

The downsides? You can only purchase Gold Coins using cryptocurrency, and you can only redeem Stake Cash for cryptocurrency. If you have any intention of redeeming prizes, you must already be invested in the crypto space or be willing to start now.

The lack of a mobile app is a downer, but you can still enjoy Stake from your mobile device’s browser.