Drake and Stake: His Gambling Streams, Biggest Wins and Losses, the Deal and the Lawsuits (2026)

Drake’s profile picture on Kick

Drake, the Canadian musician, has been a partner of Stake since 2022, posting seven-figure sports bets, streaming on Kick to audiences that have peaked above 200,000 and fronting the casino’s giveaways. He is an occasional streamer, not a regular one. The partnership has also brought a public falling-out with Stake’s founders, a Bloomberg investigation and three class-action lawsuits in which he is a named defendant.

Name	Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham)
Nationality	Canadian
Kick channel	drake (verified; roughly 519,000 to 536,000 followers depending on the source, October 2026)
Casino	Stake, as a paid partner since 2022
Reported deal	$100 million a year, per a 2023 Financial Times report; not confirmed in the sources we opened
Streams	Occasional Stake-sponsored events, not a schedule
Record audience	202,478 concurrent viewers on 27 December 2024
Biggest reported win	About $18 million at roulette in May 2022, on a night he reportedly finished down
Litigation	Named in three class actions over Stake.us; none decided on the merits
Latest streams	Two short broadcasts on 29 September 2026
Net worth	Our estimate: $250 million to $400 million (not a published figure)

How Drake became a gambling streamer

Reports of heavy betting came first: Wikipedia cites coverage that he placed more than $1 billion in bets between December 2021 and February 2022. The Stake relationship was reported in March 2022 (Wikipedia cites VIBE and USA Today coverage), and a Stake-sponsored livestream that May, with a giveaway of 35 Bitcoin, was an early example. Since then he has done three things for the casino: posted screenshots of large sports bets, gambled live on roulette and slots, and appeared in its advertising. His Kick bio reads “Getting cooked by Eddie live since 2022″, a nod to Stake co-founder Ed Craven.

Drake and Stake: timeline

March 2022: Partnership with Stake reported.
May 2022: Stake-sponsored stream with a 35 Bitcoin giveaway and a reported $18 million roulette win.
2023: The Financial Times reports, as relayed by Complex and Blockworks, that he is paid $100 million a year to endorse Stake.
27 December 2024: Record Kick audience of 202,478 concurrent viewers.
March 2025: Says in an Instagram caption that he is posting a Stake logo purely for $2 million in credit to spin slots.
August 2025: Streams for Stake’s eighth birthday, then falls out with the casino publicly: he criticises its founders, says withdrawals have been blocked, and his Kick channel goes offline.
October to December 2025: Three class actions over Stake.us name him as a defendant.
21 December 2025: Back on Kick with a three-night Stake stream.
2026: Bloomberg Businessweek publishes its investigation into Stake’s biggest streamers.
8 August 2026: Stake ninth-anniversary stream, averaging about 144,500 viewers.
29 September 2026: Two “Late night Stake with Drake” broadcasts, the most recent we found.

His Kick streams

Drake’s channel is at kick.com/drake and is verified. Follower figures vary with the source, from about 519,000 to 536,000 on the day we checked. He does not stream to a schedule. Broadcasts are Stake-sponsored events that mix casino play, conversation and prize drops: the December 2025 run gave five viewers a night a share of 10% of his Stake balance, and the August 2026 anniversary stream advertised more than $1 million in prizes.

The August 2026 stream averaged about 144,500 viewers over more than three hours, and even the two half-hour broadcasts in September 2026 have each been viewed more than 100,000 times.

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What Stake pays him

We found no confirmed figure. The widely reported figure, $100 million a year, comes from a 2023 Financial Times report that cited people familiar with the deal; neither Drake nor Stake has confirmed it in the sources we opened. Drake’s own statement on the subject is that March 2025 Instagram caption about $2 million in slot credit for one post.

Bloomberg’s 2026 investigation added an allegation from a former Easygo employee that Drake’s wallet was credited with $45 million to $50 million a week. That is one former employee’s account. Whose money he is gambling with is also an allegation in two of the lawsuits below, and it has not been established.

Drake’s biggest reported wins and losses

Almost all of these come from gambling trade sites, and several rest on betting slips he posted himself. We found no independent verification of them.

When	Bet	Result	Source and notes
May 2022	Roulette, on number 11	Won about $18 million	Trade report, which also says he was down $20 million on the night
February 2024	$1.15 million on the Chiefs in the Super Bowl	Won; netted about $2.34 million	Per his betting slip, according to GamblingNews
January 2025	Crown casino, Melbourne	Won AU$700,000	From a friend’s Instagram caption
April 2025	NBA bet	Payout of $1,026,871	Self-posted
May to June 2024	$565,000 on Tyson Fury; $500,000 each on the Mavericks and Oilers	Lost all three	Trade report
June 2025	Stake, month to date	Down $8,235,686	Instagram story he posted
August 2025	Kick stream	Balance fell from $3.5 million to about $422,000 in 82 minutes	Bloomberg; he ended the session with $730,000 after a $500,000 top-up from Ed Craven
July 2026	$1.5 million on Argentina in the World Cup final	Lost	Trade report

A claim that he lost $35 million in a year comes from an Akademiks TV post (22 September 2025) of supposed Stake figures whose origin is unclear; we treat it as unverified. The run of losing bets has its own name online, the “Drake curse”. In a May 2025 Stake video he said there is no curse and called himself a flawed sports bettor.

The August 2025 falling-out

In August 2025, the same month he streamed for Stake’s eighth birthday, Drake turned on the company in public. Complex reported that he called Ed Craven a “goof” in another streamer’s chat on 18 August, criticised Stake’s founders, and said he had been barred from posting affiliate links on Kick. He also posted that Stake had blocked four of his withdrawal attempts “with no explanation”. Complex’s reports say he deleted or deactivated his Kick account. No response from Stake or Craven was reported.

By 21 December 2025 he was back on Kick for a three-night Stake stream. We found no account of how the channel was restored.

The Bloomberg investigation

Bloomberg Businessweek analysed footage of 25 Stake gamblers from June to August 2025 and reported that Drake hit wins of 1,000 times his bet or more about once in every 2,500 spins on Easygo-owned slots, against about once in 10,000 on average. Bloomberg did not say the games were rigged. Stake called the findings “categorically incorrect”, and Drake’s representatives did not respond.

The lawsuits

Drake is a named defendant in three proposed class actions concerning Stake.us, the casino’s US sweepstakes site. None has been decided on the merits, and the allegations are unproven.

Missouri (Killham v. Sweepsteaks Ltd.): filed in Jackson County Circuit Court on 27 October 2025, according to local station KCTV5, against Stake.us’s operator, Adin Ross and Drake. It alleges that Stake.us is an illegal gambling platform presented as a social casino and that the two men misrepresent whose money they are gambling with. KCTV5 reported no response from the defendants at publication. A legal information site says the case was removed to federal court in late 2025, which we could not verify; we found no later status.
New Mexico (Torres v. Sweepsteaks Limited): filed in New Mexico’s Second Judicial District Court (No. D-202-CV-2025-09620) on 29 October 2025 by two unnamed New Mexico residents, making similar allegations about promotion under misleading pretences. The defendants deny them, and a motion to compel arbitration was pending as of a report dated 13 July 2026.
Virginia (Ridley v. Sweepsteaks Ltd.): filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (No. 1:25-cv-02511) on 31 December 2025 with civil racketeering and consumer-protection claims, including an allegation that players’ money helped fund the artificial inflation of Drake’s music streams. On 30 July 2026 Judge Leonie Brinkema granted Sweepsteaks‘ motion to compel arbitration and stayed the entire case. According to Music Business Worldwide, Drake had not been served and has not publicly addressed the claims; Stake called it “a nonsense claim”.

We found no regulatory action against Drake personally.

Net worth and gambling

Forbes does not publish a net worth for him; it estimated his 2025 earnings at $78 million. Nothing reliable isolates what gambling has made or cost him. For streamers whose casino earnings have been reported, see our guide to the richest casino streamers.

Our rough estimate is $250 million to $400 million. It reflects his music career and business interests; Forbes estimated his 2025 earnings at $78 million. It is our own guess, not a disclosed or published figure.

Drake gambling FAQ

Does Drake have a Kick channel?

Yes, at kick.com/drake. It is verified and has more than half a million followers. He streams occasional Stake-sponsored events.

How much does Stake pay Drake?

The Financial Times reported $100 million a year in 2023, citing people familiar with the deal. Neither Drake nor Stake has confirmed it in the sources we opened.

Did Drake leave Stake?

He fell out with the company publicly in August 2025, saying withdrawals had been blocked, and his Kick channel went offline. He was streaming with Stake again by December 2025.

What is Drake’s biggest gambling win?

The largest reported is about $18 million at roulette during a May 2022 stream. The same report says he finished that night down $20 million.

Is Drake being sued over Stake?

He is a named defendant in three proposed class actions about Stake.us, filed in Missouri, New Mexico and Virginia in late 2025. None has been decided on the merits, and the Virginia case was stayed pending arbitration in July 2026.

Does Drake gamble with his own money?

That is not established. Two of the lawsuits allege he gambles with “house money”, and a former employee made a similar claim to Bloomberg; neither has been proven.

Sources

Last fact-checked: 10 October 2026. Part of our gambling streamers directory. Gambling involves risk: only play with money you can afford to lose.

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