MyStake Casino

DISCLAIMER: MyStake Casino and the sister sites connected with it are featured here for information only. The brand isn’t licensed to operate in the United Kingdom, so we advise players in the UK not to use these casinos.

Casinos that don’t hold a UK Gambling Commission licence shouldn’t be operating in the UK at all. Players are wary of them, and an inability to advertise anywhere legally tends to mean the casinos can’t attract players (not even taking into account the fact that, technically speaking, they shouldn’t be accepting players from the UK at all). MyStake Casino seems to be different. Its popularity not only in the UK but all over Europe is rising rapidly, which has prompted us to try to find out what all the fuss is about. We’ll know by the end of this review.

MyStake Welcome Bonuses

The MyStake Casino welcome bonus has had a serious upgrade since the last time we stopped by to review it. Formerly capped at £500, the bonus is now a three-stage mammoth worth three times that amount. First deposits at MyStake get a 150% match up to a maximum of £750, followed by 100% up to £500 on second deposits, and 50% up to £250 on third deposits. Each stage needs a minimum £20 deposit, and the combined deposit and bonus must be wagered x30 on slots within thirty days, with a maximum qualifying bet of £5. That makes the real turnover considerably heavier than a simple x30-on-bonus figure would suggest.

The sports betting welcome bonus at MyStake has also been boosted in the past twelve months, and is now a 120% boost up to a maximum of £600 on first deposits only. The bonus is subject to a minimum qualifying deposit of £20, but the wagering requirements attached to it spoil things somewhat. The combined deposit and bonus have to be wagered x10 before you’re eligible to withdraw, and qualifying bet slips need at least three selections at minimum odds of 1.40 each. Given that we consider anything above x5 too high a wagering requirement for a sports betting bonus, this one is particularly excessive.

Ongoing Offers

There’s still plenty to play for once you’ve used up your welcome promotion at MyStake. The current list includes a 170% cryptocurrency deposit bonus worth up to £1000, a fifty per cent weekend casino reload, first-week cashback worth up to £300, a ten per cent loyalty deposit bonus and ten per cent crypto cashback. Sports bettors get their own incentives, including a thirty-five per cent reload and the 3+1 Freebet offer, while free spins and free bets rotate in and out of the promotions page. There is also now a formal loyalty scheme. MyStake calls it Galaxy VIP, and players climb through its levels by collecting Stars as they wager, unlocking different cashback and reward benefits as they go. In other words, the old idea that MyStake doesn’t bother with VIP rewards no longer holds up.

What are the Pros and Cons of MyStake?

Featured Games at MyStake Casino

There are so many games at MyStake Casino that focusing on any of them and calling them “featured” at the expense of all the others feels almost wrong, but we can look to the homepage of the casino itself for guidance. There, we’ll find a section labelled “Top Casino Games.” They’re all slots, and these are the ones that are listed first.

Book of MyStake: It says a lot about the growing reputation of MyStake Casino that it’s been able to persuade Spinomenal to make a branded slots game for it. It’s a “Book Of” slot with an Egyptian theme, and so is likely to be very similar to Book of Dead, with expanding symbols during free spins and enormously high volatility. Book of MyStake isn’t likely to give you anything you haven’t seen before save for the fact that it’s been branded with the MyStake name and logo, and we’re a little nervous that the RTP isn’t stated given that RTP rates in “Book Of” slots tend to be low.

Gates of Olympus: Pragmatic Play work with every theme and genre you can imagine when they’re putting online slots together, but they seem to like the ancient myths and legends theme more than any other. Gates of Olympus is, as the name suggests, inspired by the gods of ancient Greece. That means it isn’t especially original, but that scarcely matters when the “Pay Anywhere” layout means little wins come regularly, and the multiplier becomes progressive during free spins. RTP is 95.51% with high volatility.

The Greatest Catch: There was a time when fishing-themed slots weren’t popular, but Reel Time Gaming changed all of that with Fishin’ Frenzy, before Reel Kingdom followed with Big Bass Bonanza. Now every provider is coming up with fishing-themed slots, as we can see in this April 2022 release from Evoplay with 96.09% RTP and above-average volatility. The maximum possible win of x10,000 against your stake offers greater potential value than Big Bass Bonanza, and the graphics are better too. In fact, with the dynamite mechanic that kicks in during free spins, you could even make a case that the whole slot is better.

Deposits and Withdrawals

MyStake Casino has a problem here, but it’s a problem of speed rather than choice. Visa and Mastercard are supported alongside alternative payment methods such as Skrill, Neteller and MiFinity, while cryptocurrency users have plenty of options of their own. The precise cashier line-up varies depending on where a player lives, so we wouldn’t rely on methods like Interac being available everywhere. Our beef is that MyStake allows up to three business days for withdrawals to be processed. Plenty arrive sooner than that, including some crypto withdrawals, but three business days is still the maximum timescale the casino tells players to allow.

Customer Support and Licensing

Customers at MyStake Casino can get in touch with customer support through live chat or by sending the casino an email. Live chat is promoted as being available 24/7. There’s no telephone support available, but this isn’t uncommon for casino sites based in Curaçao. MyStake’s licensing position changed during the restructuring of its old Santeda International connections. The site is now operated by GTW B.V., company number 165433, and is covered by Curaçao Gaming Authority licence OGL/2024/250/0115. That licence is active, so MyStake is not an unlicensed casino. The problem for readers of this page is that it still has no UK Gambling Commission licence and therefore isn’t authorised to offer remote gambling to players in Britain. Its familiar links to Rolletto, Goldenbet, Velobet, Donbet and Cosmobet are now best understood as historical and platform relationships rather than proof that every brand shares the same current legal operator.

MyStake Casino – The Verdict

There’s only one verdict we can give here, which is that we don’t think UK players should play at MyStake Casino. That’s down to its licensing situation, although the lack of payment and withdrawal information available on its website is factored into our recommendation, too. MyStake isn’t unlicensed anymore; it has an active Curaçao Gaming Authority licence through GTW B.V. What it doesn’t have is a UK Gambling Commission licence, and that means British players don’t get the protections and complaints routes that come with one. This is not at all to say that people can’t have fun and win money at MyStake Casino – we know that plenty of people do – but we can’t say it’s OK for UK players to use a site that isn’t authorised for this market. If MyStake ever gets the requisite UK licence, our view could change very quickly.