Stake.com: Confiscated Winnings

14 cases on file where Stake closed an account and kept the balance, in some cases including the player's own deposits.

Stake's stated reasons were a second or shared account, documents it called fake, altered or misleading, an unfair-play rule, or a breach of its terms it didn't spell out on the page.

In 11 of the 12 rejected cases, the mediator sided with Stake, often after reviewing information Stake shared privately. That's the mediator's view of evidence the public can't see, not a proven finding against the player.

The twelfth was turned away as too old to look into. One player, who says a 15,000 USDC deposit is still held, stopped answering.

The last is open: Stake kept a $25,476 balance, saying the player's KYC information was misleading, and the mediator is checking that claim.

• Keep a single account per casino, and don't share a device with others who play there — both ended cases against the player here.
• Sign up with details that match your ID exactly; Stake treats a mismatch as a breach of its terms.
• Ask in writing for the exact rule and the document a decision rests on, and keep the answer.
• Keep unedited originals of every document you upload, so you can show them to a mediator if the casino calls them fake or misleading.
• Complain soon after a closure — one case filed a year later was turned away as too old.