I finally put my Stake and Rainbet stats next to each other. Both are red. One is brutal

[Notlucky78]

I've wagered six figures on both Stake and Rainbet, and last night I finally did the thing I kept putting off: opened both stats pages, took screenshots, and looked at them side by side.

Before anyone starts typing — no, these are not the same time periods. The Rainbet numbers cover about nine months, November 13, 2025 to August 7, 2026. The Stake screenshot is a recent snapshot: day, week, fortnight. So I'm not pretending this is a scientific comparison, and none of this proves anything about RTP on either site. It's just what my own money did in each place. That's all a screenshot can show.

Rainbet first, because that's the one that actually hurts.

Deposits: $18,848.97 Withdrawals: $8,303.74 Net: -$10,545.23 Wagered: $128,378.44

Read that again. I put in almost $18.9k and pulled out $8.3k. More than half of everything I deposited over nine months is just gone. $128k wagered, and at the end of it the account kept $10.5k of my real money. That's not a bad weekend you laugh off with the boys. That's a used car. That's months of grinding volume for a number that only moved in one direction.

Now the Stake snapshot. Recent window only, keep that in mind.

Fortnight: $105,057 wagered, -$2,729, $616 in bonuses Week: $86,739 wagered, -$3,010, $468 in bonuses Day: $16,885 wagered, -$1,663, $15 in bonuses

Still losing. I want that to be very clear. Every single line on that screenshot has a minus sign in front of it. There is no version of this post where Stake made me money, because it didn't.

But the shape of it is different. In two weeks I pushed $105k through Stake and I'm down $2.7k, with $616 coming back in bonuses. On Rainbet I wagered $128k over nine months — not that much more than one Stake fortnight — and I'm down $10.5k. Different periods, different sessions, different games, probably different luck. I know. I'm not claiming the slots pay differently on one site. I'm telling you that six figures of volume cost me $2.7k in one place recently and $10.5k in the other over the long run, and only one of those numbers ruined my mood for months.

Funny detail if you look closely: my fortnight loss ($2,729) is actually smaller than my week loss ($3,010). Which means the week before last I was slightly up. A couple hundred bucks. That's the only green that exists anywhere in this post, and it's not even visible in the screenshot — you have to do subtraction to find it.

The bonuses are the one thing I can compare with a straight face, because bonuses aren't luck. That's the platform deciding whether your volume is worth anything to them. $616 back over a fortnight. $468 in a single week. It doesn't erase the losses — do the math, I'm still deep in the red after every bonus. But when you lose $3k in a week and get $468 handed back, the week feels different than losing and getting nothing. On Rainbet, with $128k wagered, I never had that feeling. Maybe I missed promos, maybe my timing was bad. I can only report what my account looks like.

And before someone says I'm glazing Stake — look at the day line again. $16,885 wagered in one day. Down $1,663. Bonus: fifteen dollars. Fifteen. So even on the platform I'm saying treated me better, there are days you eat a four-figure loss and get back the price of a sandwich. That's the reality on the "good" one.

So here's where I land, based only on my own numbers. In my experience, Stake has felt noticeably better recently: losses that stayed in some kind of proportion to my volume, and bonuses that actually showed up. Rainbet, for me, was nine months of watching the net number dig deeper, with a withdrawal total that's less than half of my deposits. Someone else might have the exact opposite screenshots. Post them, honestly. I'd like to see it.

But if you came here to figure out where to deposit, you're reading this wrong. Between these two screenshots alone, that's over $230k wagered, and both accounts are red. One is -$2.7k in a fortnight I'd call decent. The other is -$10.5k over nine months I'd call brutal. Those are my two options and they're both losses.

I can argue all day about which casino treated me better, and I basically just did. But zoom out and the whole argument gets kind of embarrassing. I deposited real money, wagered hundreds of thousands, and my big conclusion is which site made losing feel less bad. The real comparison was never Stake vs Rainbet. It's the player vs the math, and the math doesn't lose. If these screenshots make you want to move your bankroll somewhere, you missed the point. Go open your own stats page instead. It's the most sobering thing you'll do all week.

[Afi4wins]

@Notlucky78 Hi there and welcome to the forum.

That's a lot of sharing info from you mate and we thank you for it.

Gambling can be really brutal to most players, no denying that fact, but some are born with real gambling luck! These very few guys somehow always win a lot or don't lose so much, or even manage to recover their losses and make a profit!

Honestly speaking, I would say that no matter which casinos you play at, the overall stats would not change much, unless you are one of the few lucky ones.

With the EXTREME EXTENT of games being regulated by blardy AI programs nowadays, there can only be BLEAK days ahead - yeah, albeit the occasional sunny bright days. 

[Afi4wins]

In my case, just to share some brief details with you guys, here's my 2026 stats for my favourite Playtech games at 2 of my regular casinos:

Total number of deposits done in 2026 = 30 (11+19 deposits)

Total number of withdrawals made in 2026 = 1 (a measly RM60 withdrawal which I had forced myself to make!)

All these show the extreme extent of how those AIs are now controlling and regulating my gaming sessions - all the previous years stats DO NOT have these kind of ridiculous results!!!

[Flatzem888]

14 hours ago, Afi4wins said:

In my case, just to share some brief details with you guys, here's my 2026 stats for my favourite Playtech games at 2 of my regular casinos:

Total number of deposits done in 2026 = 30 (11+19 deposits)

Total number of withdrawals made in 2026 = 1 (a measly RM60 withdrawal which I had forced myself to make!)

All these show the extreme extent of how those AIs are now controlling and regulating my gaming sessions - all the previous years stats DO NOT have these kind of ridiculous results!!!

what are you finding this year, low paying features or too many dead spins or what.