Bloomberg journalists analyzed 1,500 hours of broadcasts from 25 Stake streamers on the Kick platform using the Claude language model (Anthropic). They discovered an unusually high frequency of wins in Easygo slots, the parent company and proprietary provider of the crypto casino Stake.
Drake and Edin Ross were found to have the highest win rates among the streamers. Drake achieved multipliers of x1000 or more every 2,500 spins, compared to the standard of 10,000 spins for others, which is four times above average. Edin Ross won with the same multiplier every 2,000 spins. In games from other providers, both had results that did not stand out. Four of the same 25 streamers, who played as many rounds as Drake, did not receive any significant wins during the entire period.
Bloomberg also noted that peak wins for ambassadors regularly coincided with the presence of Stake co-founder Ed Craven in the chat or stream. An example cited was from August 2025, when Drake's balance dropped from $3 million to $422,000 in the first 90 minutes of a stream. After Ed Craven topped it up by $500,000, Drake immediately received four large wins in Easygo slots, bringing his balance back to $2.2 million.
Three former Easygo employees and three Stake contractors told journalists that some streamers play with promotional balances that cannot be withdrawn. Stake labeled Bloomberg's findings as categorically incorrect and refused to provide data for independent verification. Easygo stated that the frequency of wins corresponds to the declared RTP rates.
To promote clips of their ambassadors' wins, Stake hires clip makers and pays them $800 for every million views.