Stake held on to almost half of the tracked crypto casino market between Sept. 1 and 7, taking a 49.14% share on $586 million in deposits. Deposit volume grew 11% week over week and the number of deposits climbed 16% to around 800,000, yet its share still slipped 1.09 percentage points as several smaller competitors grew much faster.
The 20 largest brands put together roughly $1.17 billion in deposits over the week, with 12 of the 19 returning operators growing their volume. Concentration at the top barely moved, as Stake, Duel, Rainbet, BC.GAME, and Gamdom controlled 75.87% of the tracked market between them. Duel took second place on an 8.02% share, while BC.GAME climbed six positions into fourth at 6.26%.
Duel’s deposits rose 63% to $95.6 million, with the average deposit up 53% to $1,680 and the number of transactions up just 7%. That growth coincided with the operator becoming an official sponsor of Triton Poker for its Jeju and North Cyprus events. Branded Duel Heads Up matches involving founder Ossi Ketola and Triton players are part of the agreement too, which extends Ketola’s existing habit of using ultra-high-stakes poker to promote the casino.
Ketola picked up further attention on Sept. 6 by meeting Donald Trump Jr. at a private dinner in Tallinn. The Duel founder said it had taken months to organize and that they discussed Duel, politics, and the wider international situation, though no commercial agreement came out of it. The publicity came during the same week Duel added 2.45 percentage points of market share, the second-largest gain in the top 20.
BC.GAME managed the largest share increase of anyone, adding 4.72 percentage points as weekly deposits jumped 61% to $74.7 million. More frequent deposits had nothing to do with it, since transaction count actually fell 22% to 30,800 while the average deposit surged 260% to $2,420. Gamdom showed the same pattern one position below, with volume rising 71% to $69.1 million despite a 3% drop in deposit count and a 77% increase in average deposit size.
BC.GAME also launched BC Check-In on Sept. 7, a Telegram bot that rewards customers for daily check-ins, completing missions, and keeping weekly streaks going. Users earn XP through repeated activity, with extra rewards for completing a full week and prizes for the highest XP totals. It gives BC.GAME another retention mechanism aimed at customers already inside its ecosystem rather than relying entirely on new-user acquisition.
Stake put part of its marketing effort into Latin America while holding its dominant position. Its four-week Torneo Reyes de la Pelota campaign in Peru rewards football betting activity and gives players who repeatedly finish near the top a chance to meet ambassador Iker Casillas. A separate Colombian campaign running through September ranks regular players by deposit frequency and VIP customers by the total value of qualifying deposits, with the top participants getting access to a Casillas event in Bogotá.
Roobet took the sharpest fall among the largest operators, losing 5.91 percentage points and sliding from second to sixth. Deposits dropped 44% to $68 million and the average deposit fell by the same percentage to $417. Several public complaints over withdrawal reviews ran alongside that decline, including a player who reported $190,000 in ETH being held with no stated completion time. That one was later resolved and the funds paid, as was another complaint involving a delayed $20,000 withdrawal. Individual cases don’t establish a broader withdrawal problem, but they brought negative attention during a particularly weak week for the brand’s deposit metrics.
1win grew deposits 21% to $29.5 million and held eighth place on a 2.47% share while trying a considerably less conventional piece of crypto marketing. The company paid 16,276 USDC in a charity auction for branding in the top-center section of Solana’s official profile image. Rollbit, another gambling brand, paid the auction’s largest individual amount at $50,000 for the central position, which put two crypto gambling companies directly inside a fundraising campaign centered on one of the industry’s largest blockchain networks.
The Sept. 1-7 period also finished right before the Champions League league phase started on Sept. 8, handing football-focused operators a major new stretch of fixtures to market around. Stake’s Casillas campaigns show that shift most directly, while the wider weekly numbers describe a market growing very unevenly: Stake kept expanding while losing relative share, Duel and BC.GAME gained quickly, and Roobet gave back much of its earlier position. The biggest movements also came from brands spending heavily on sponsorships, retention campaigns, and attention outside conventional casino advertising.