iGaming Weekly: Stake spins out Juice, Ketola's $20M heads-up, Connecticut's nine cease-and-desists

This week at a glance:

• Stake's exclusive studios spun out as B2B provider Juice
• Duel founder Ossi Ketola took $20 million in a match against Patrik Antonius in the biggest heads-up match ever livestreamed
• Connecticut hit nine prediction-market operators with cease-and-desist orders
• bet365 cut 340 jobs.

Crypto Casinos

• Five studios behind Stake's exclusive games spun out as B2B provider Juice, opening more than 100 titles with $12 billion in turnover to all operators, with Roobet first live.
• Nigeria's Lagos gaming authority and the federation of state regulators declared Stake.com an illegal unlicensed operator across 24 states, citing unpaid monthly gaming taxes and ten ignored compliance notices over two years.
• Shuffle signed a multi-year deal as Sunderland's official sleeve partner across the Premier League and three cup competitions, replacing LiveScore Bet despite holding no UK license.
• Duel said it was down about $12 million in a day after a Plinko whale betting $40,000 per ball hit the house, recovering roughly $3 million overnight.
• CoinPoker announced The One, a $250 buy-in hold'em event with a $5 million guarantee and at least $1 million locked for the winner, running 26 Day 1 flights from October 4.
• 1win added USDC on Solana, BC.Game listed $PONS with $60,000 airdropped to VIPs, TrustDice added Revolut for euro users, and Dicey opened a VIP poaching program for $500,000 wager histories.

Latest Originals

• Roobet launched Striker, which it calls "our newest House game". No RTP has been published yet. $3,000,000 max profit.
• Degen.com launched Hilo Mode, a new in-house Hilo game, in the week's biggest-engagement release post among tracked operators.
• YEET rebuilt its Coin Flip Original with a new look, more coins and a maximum multiplier of 1,000,000x.
• Whale.io added Baccarat to its Whale Originals lobby.

Third-Party Releases

• Nolimit City released Duck Hunters 2, a position-multiplier sequel with a 40,000x cap and 96.00% top RTP, live on Duel, YEET, Gamba, Roobet and more.
• Play'n GO released Triple Beasts of Fortune, three crystal-linked Free Spins features that can trigger alone or together, 1,024 ways, 96.2% RTP and a 30,000x cap.
• Hacksaw Gaming released Great Game Serengeti, a medium-volatility nine-payline slot with a new Stampede Reveals mechanic, three bonus variants, 96.29% top RTP and a 5,000x cap.
• Yggdrasil released 3 Piggies of Bank, introducing its Lock'em & Load'em coin-lock respin mechanic at 96% top RTP with a 5,625x maximum.

Latest Drama

Duel founder Ossi "Monarch" Ketola takes $20M off Patrik Antonius

Ketola and Antonius each bought in for $10 million at Les A Casino in Jeju, the biggest heads-up match in livestreamed poker history, and Ketola won.

• Antonius folded correctly to a straight flush in a $15.9 million pot, then lost everything on the next hand.

SteveWillDoIt threatens to expose why he left Roobet, owner Aero Allen answers first, Rydurz offers a $5M boxing wager

Steve's August exit to Gamdom turned into open war after he threatened a video on the real reason he left. Aeroh responded before the video existed, and nothing has been filed or published.

• Steve says he made $2 million to $3 million a month against Roobet's claim of $50 million-plus.

Daily streamer drama, wins and deal changes: Degen Highs on X

iGaming General

• Brazil's government began drafting a provisional measure to tighten betting rules with a ban on online casino games reportedly on the table, taking effect immediately weeks before October's elections.
• bet365 confirmed 340 job cuts amounting to about 3 percent of its workforce, citing a competitive trading environment and rising regulatory and tax costs, making it the fifth UK operator to cut this year.
• An unsealed Spectrum Gaming report found Evolution's games accessible in prohibited markets including Hong Kong, Singapore, the UAE and Saudi Arabia and said the supplier takes no proactive steps to police operator compliance.

Related News

• Revolut confirmed it handed customer KYC documents and full transaction histories to fraudsters who emailed from a real government agency domain that passed SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks.
• BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo donated £36 million to Reform UK and Tether investor Christopher Harborne matched it a day later, more than every British party raised in all of 2025.

Prediction Markets

• The Wall Street Journal reported a cluster of Polymarket accounts won near-perfect bets on earnings at companies audited by KPMG, one profiting about $22,000 across 42 bets, with federal charges reportedly coming.
• Connecticut's consumer protection department issued nine cease-and-desist orders including to Polymarket, Coinbase, Robinhood and Gemini over sports event contracts, plus 29 investigative subpoenas, after a federal judge ruled such contracts are illegal unlicensed gambling.
• Kalshi launched 24/7 CFTC-approved perpetual futures on gold and silver, the first non-crypto perps cleared on a US designated contract market, with equity index and single-stock filings pending.

FairGambling Analytics Spotlight

Deposits across the casinos FairGambling tracks on-chain came to $1.06B for September 7–13, down 8.3% week over week.

Top 10 casinos by deposit volume

Stake took $477.3M, 50% of the top ten's $956.4M; Roobet was next at $101.9M. The biggest mover was Stake.us, down 25.6% week over week to $18.2M.

Chain dominance

TRON led with 36% of deposits, ahead of Ethereum at 28% and Solana at 20%; the outlier was Polygon, down 56.7% week over week to $20.8M.

Coin dominance

USDT carried 58% of deposits, USDC 17% and SOL 12%; TRX was the fastest mover, up 39.6% week over week to $18.1M.

FairGambling tracked 45.31M bets from roughly 344,100 players, $7.29B wagered in total, down 1.7% on the week.

Top 5 casinos by wager

Stake handled $4.09B, more than half of the top five's wagers. Among the rest, Roobet was up 45.6% to $654.6M; Jack was down 36.8% to $515.4M.

Top games and biggest bets

Sweet Bonanza 2500 led the week at $587.8M wagered, 1.3x the runner-up Waylanders Forge at $457.1M. All five of the biggest bets landed at Stake, between $1.1M and $2.2M; all five lost.

Biggest wins of the week

The top multiplier was 5,148,297× on Mines at Shuffle, turning a near-zero stake into $6K; none of the five biggest multipliers paid more than $6K. The biggest payout was $21.0M on High Elf from a $250K stake; all five of the week's biggest wins landed at Stake, $89.3M between them.

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