Surprised no ones posted this already

bloomberg.com/features/2026-stake-drake-crypto-casino-adin-ross-gambling/?embedded-checkout=true

How to Win Slots and Influence People

Crypto casino Stake pays Drake and other stars to bet, with clips of big wins spreading to impressionable gamblers. The numbers show surprising luck at work.

Drake just needed some juice. In 82 minutes of online slots play, the Canadian rapper’s starting balance of $3.5 million worth of Bitcoin had dwindled to $422,355. The mood was grim as he click, click, clicked the spin button with tens of thousands of livestream viewers watching. Drake knew, though, that one of them could turn his luck around.

“Eddie, join the call, brother,” he said.

Drake had been invoking Eddie’s name throughout the stream: Eddie needs to fill up that balance a little more. Eddie says play roulette. Eddie needs to “make this s--- shake.” It sounded like Drake was appealing to some omnipotent deity.

In seconds a new window popped up near the ones for Drake and the three internet celebrities who’d been hanging out with him online that day in August. Inside was a man with staticky brown hair, a plain black T-shirt and AirPods: Ed Craven, the billionaire co-founder of Stake, the online cryptocurrency casino where Drake was gambling, and of Kick, the site livestreaming his play.

From his house in Melbourne, Craven told everyone he’d been watching the whole time. Now he was appearing to deliver a public pep talk to his assembled A-team, all four of them signed to multimillion-dollar contracts to advertise Stake. “The energy here is not good,” Craven said. Drake’s choice of casino games, he added, had been “terrible.”

Drake had now navigated to Speed Roulette, on Craven’s earlier advice. It wasn’t long before his luck shifted. A few spins in, he placed chips on 12 and spun the wheel. The ball settled in on 12, and he won $800,000. Craven added $500,000 more to Drake’s balance, telling the rapper to lock in and get those wins. Then he had some advice for Kick’s most watched American influencer, Adin Ross, a sparky bad boy who’d gotten popular streaming the video game series NBA 2K: “Get those clips viral, you know. Have a few of them with the Stake logo really clear and really f---ing big.”

Drake decided to test his newfound fortune on Puffer Stacks, a marine-themed slot game operated by Stake’s parent company, Easygo Entertainment. He leaned into his computer as colorful shells slid into place on a grid. He won another $800,000, and the word “INSANE” popped up on his screen. Over the next hour, he won big twice more on Puffer Stacks and once on a slot game called Rooster Returns, also operated by Easygo. He got his balance back up to $2.2 million. Then he kept on spinning, eventually logging off with just $730,000.
Drake’s hot streak had been hot, though. He’d won big—1,000 times or more his base bet, a common goal in the crypto gambling community—four times in just one hour playing Easygo-owned slots. That kind of luck is far outside the norm, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek a***ysis of 500 hours of live slots gameplay by 25 Stake gamblers. And that session wasn’t a one-off for Drake. When he played Easygo slots, he won big four times as frequently as the average rate—the equivalent of once every 2,500 spins, compared with every 10,000 spins, according to Businessweek’s investigation. Yet on games operated by third parties, his win rate was average. And Drake wasn’t the only influencer getting very, very lucky while broadcasting Easygo games on Kick.

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Roc Nation y'all gotta let it go

life changing information

Drake and Adin Ross

Drake being an online gambling addict that has no issue pushing it onto children invalidates everything musically he’s ever done, man is a grifting bum

He didn’t walk away with any profit - quite the opposite - in the stream mentioned in the article. I honestly don’t know if he’s ever finished a stream in profit. Yes he smacks big wins but Bloomberg seems to be implying stake is juicing his wins when in reality the house is obviously winning.

That’s not to say that edited clips of drake winning big wouldn’t deceive some people

Articles long as s*** and I posted basically just the drake portion but basically they’re rigging the odds for these streamers to entice people to join / clipfarm.

Stake’s obviously an illegal online casino and it’s going to be a movie when the s*** finally crashes down

Musicians have never been a moral paragon of virtue

Steven Tyler was a pedo

John Lennon beat women

Big Pun beat women

Notorious B.I.G beat women

Marvin Gaye impregnated a 16 yr old

let's face it guys: all most people care about is the music

Y'all get too parasocial and invested in the personal dealings of these people you don't know in real life.

Well drakes music sucks too now I guess he has nothing but the gambling at this point

No, they have usual win rates.

Also calling out someone for pushing gambling during a time it’s growing bigger than ever and ruining more lives than ever is not parasocial

What’s parasocial is ignoring it because he was your high school theme music or whatever

F*** that entire list of niggas you named I don’t listen to any of them anyways

Biggie didn't beat women. He was just fat.

tell that to Lil Kim

Play Speed Roulette or I leak the video

While ofc its less bad than if he was beating his girl, for me the killer is how much of a choice it is. He already so rich and its just pure greed

Its nothing personal against Drake its just very unsavoury same way any celeb promoting crypto scams

Thats a fair point but it doesn't invalidate his musical offerings.

CNN got a partnership with Kalshi. This s*** is bigger than Drake trust me.

Well their gambling streams are literally just an advertisement lol

It doesn't matter whether he wins or not because he doesn't gamble his own money anyway; Stake gives him millions to play with to entice vulnerable people.

Yeah not his inappropriate relationships with underage girls

People always do the whataboutthis trick like you can’t just say f*** all of them too

Children are too dumb to learn poker so he's grooming them with Bingo was his Name-O slots

Interesting. Will give it a win. Their data visualisation is usually solid