Counted out of the operators’ own terms
One number settles a Stake alternative, and it changes by country
38 operators publish a list of the countries they refuse, and all 38 lists were read on 26 August 2026. Cross them with one country and a single figure comes out: 32 for the United States, 12 for Germany, zero for seven countries. That figure settles which sites like Stake are worth your reading time.
The count behind every Stake alternative shortlist
100 operators sit in the library behind this site. 38 of them publish a list of the countries they refuse to serve, and each of those 38 lists was read on 26 August 2026 at the operator’s own address. Run one country through all 38 and a single figure comes out: how many of them exclude that country in their own terms. For the United States the figure is 32. For Germany it is 12. For Ireland, Norway and Canada the figure is zero.
Everything below follows from that one figure.
Search results for sites like Stake hand every reader the same ten brands, ordered by the size of a welcome offer. The ordering is identical in Lisbon and in Lagos. What differs between those two cities is the share of those brands whose own contract already names the reader’s country, and that share was published by each operator about itself rather than formed as an opinion about it by anyone else.
Across the 122 countries covered here the counts spread wide. The median country carries 8 refusals and the mean sits at 9.3. Six countries carry 20 or more, 42 sit between 10 and 19, 67 land between 1 and 9, and seven end at zero.
The brand this site is built around is Stake.com, the crypto-currency casino and sportsbook. Its own territorial clause, read from stake.com/licenses on 26 August 2026 through an archived copy, names one country: the United States. One out of 122, against an average of 9.3 for the operators in this library. A reader leaving that brand is leaving one of the shortest published lists in the set, and that alone raises the bar a Stake alternative has to clear.
A separate American operator trades under a similar name. It sells a different product under a different set of rules through a different company, it falls outside the scope of these pages, and it earns a page of its own rather than a paragraph here.
Three groups, and the third one is ignorance
Set one country against the 100 operators and each operator lands in exactly one of three groups. Keeping the three apart is the whole method.
The operator excludes the country in its own terms. Its list is published, the country is named in it, and the entry carries the address of the document with the date it was read. That count heads every country page on this site, and among the three groups it is the one a reader can verify inside a minute.
The list is published and the country goes unnamed in it. The wording stays exactly that. A published list can be shorter than the practice behind it, the payment side decides separately from the terms, and an operator may amend the clause on any morning. Writing “accepts you” instead would be a promise, and this site has zero standing to make one.
The list stays unread. 62 of the 100 operators sit in this group. An empty cell means the document was never opened here: never a zero, never a permission. An unpublished policy can be applied at any amount, on any day, without warning.
The three groups always sum to 100, which makes them easy to audit. For the United States: 32 refuse, 6 published lists leave it unnamed, 62 unread. For the United Kingdom: 29, 9 and 62. For Germany: 12, 26 and 62. For Ireland: zero, 38 and 62.
Look at that last line for a moment. Ireland reaches zero because 38 lists were read and every one of them stops short of naming it. Behind that zero, 62 documents stay closed.
Sites like Stake, country by country, on one map
Europe holds 39 of the 122 countries and the highest regional average, 10.6 refusals per country. South America holds 10 countries and the lowest average, 6.6. In between sit North America with the Caribbean at 10.2 across 14 countries, Oceania at 9.8 across 11, Asia at 8.7 across 33 and Africa at 8.1 across 15.
Regional averages flatten the thing worth seeing. Inside Europe the Netherlands carries 27 refusals, Spain 24 and France 23, while Italy, Finland and Switzerland carry 1 apiece and three further European countries carry zero. A phrase like “a Stake alternative for Europe” therefore points at very little: two neighbours can differ by 26 refusals drawn from the same 38 lists.
The seven lists that do most of the refusing
A high count for a country usually means the same handful of very broad lists caught it, which is a different thing from an operator singling that country out.
Seven operators name more than 90 of the 122 countries each. Oshi Casino names 105. Mirax names 103, and 7Bit Casino 102. Bitkingz reaches 99, PlayAmo and Slotum 96 apiece, Bitdreams 95. Those seven alone account for most of what a mid-table country scores.
Below them the lists shorten fast. Winz.io names 40 of the 122. CryptoLeo and Nine Casino name 38 each, BitStarz 37. Then a long tail runs down to Cloudbet at 2 and three operators at 1 apiece.
Two of the 38 lists read here name zero of the 122 countries covered, because their exclusions fall entirely outside this set. 36 lists therefore do all the work in every count printed on this site.
So a country scoring 12 has usually been caught by the seven broad lists plus a few medium ones. A country scoring 27 has been caught by the broad lists, the medium ones and several short ones as well. A short list naming your country is the signal worth weighing, because that operator sat down and wrote a specific clause about you.
The same arithmetic explains why a single ranked table of sites like Stake travels so badly. Move it from Dublin to Amsterdam and the same ten rows lose most of their meaning, because the same 38 lists name the Netherlands 27 times over and leave Ireland unnamed throughout.
What a Stake alternative gets compared on
Every row in the table below carries the same five things, and each one comes from a document with a date on it: the company named on the permit, the permit number with the register it was checked against, the number of countries the operator excludes in its own terms, and the moment identity documents are demanded, with the clause number that says so.
What each operator publishes about itself: the company named on the licence, the permit number and where it was read, how many countries the operator excludes in its own terms, and when identity documents are demanded. The country count is the length of a list the operator published, not our estimate of where it will accept you. An empty cell means the document was not read — it is not a zero, and it is not a permission.
- Vavepaid placement
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- OperatorTechOptions Group B.V.
- LicenceCuraçao no number
- Countries barredlist not read
- Before ID checkcase by case
- Stake
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- OperatorMedium Rare N.V.
- LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
- Countries barred1
- Before ID checkcase by case
- Shuffle
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- OperatorNatural Nine B.V.
- LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
- Countries barred15
- Before ID checkcase by case
- BC.Game
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- Operatornot published
- LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
- Countries barred0
- Before ID checknot published
- Roobet
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- Operatornot published
- Licencenot published
- Countries barred0
- Before ID checknot published
- Rollbit
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- Operatornot published
- Licencenot published
- Countries barred0
- Before ID checknot published
- Duelbits
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- OperatorLiquid Entertainment N.V.
- LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
- Countries barred0
- Before ID checknot published
- Bets.io
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- OperatorTechno Wave Systems S.R.L.
- LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
- Countries barred42
- Before ID checkcase by case
- Cloudbet
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- OperatorHalcyon Super Holdings B.V.
- LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
- Countries barred2
- Before ID checkcase by case
- MyStake
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- Operatornot published
- LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
- Countries barred0
- Before ID checknot published
- TrustDice
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- Operatornot published
- LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
- Countries barred0
- Before ID checknot published
- BetFury
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- OperatorUniverse B Games B.V.
- LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
- Countries barred0
- Before ID checknot published
That column of country counts records the length of a list the operator published, which makes it a fact about the operator rather than a forecast about your deposit.
The twelve rows, read one at a time
Four of the twelve publish a territorial list that has been read here. Stake.com names 1 country. Cloudbet names 2, Australia and Belgium, in the terms served from its help pages. Shuffle names 15, among them Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, read live from shuffle.com/info/terms. Bets.io names 42, the longest list in the table, taken from an archived copy of its terms. The remaining eight rows leave that cell empty, and empty means unread.
The permit line splits the table along a different seam. Nine of the twelve print a number in the current Curaçao Gaming Authority format, and the register answered for each of them on 26 August 2026. Seven came back Active. Two came back Revoked: BC.Game under OGL/2023/118/0060, and Bets.io under OGL/2024/1178/0479. Roobet and Rollbit yielded nothing at all to read — zero company name, zero number, zero register entry — which puts them in the same state as an empty cell everywhere else here.
The identity column is where the exact wording earns its keep. Stake.com reserves the right in clause 4.8 to request documents at any time, to establish identity and location, and to restrict service, payment or withdrawal until identity is sufficiently determined; withdrawals require verification. Shuffle reserves the same right in clause 4.1, and its anti-money-laundering policy describes a risk-based threshold whose amount stays unpublished. Bets.io puts it in clause 5 and gives a player 30 calendar days to supply documents. Cloudbet places it in clause 18.1.1 and reserves the right to re-verify a customer it has already verified once.
Bets.io carries one further figure the rest leave out: a ceiling of 10,000 USD per transaction, in clause 10.
What “like Stake” means once the count is settled
A count narrows a shortlist and says little about what the survivor sells. Readers typing sites like Stake are usually after two further things: original in-house games the brand wrote for itself, and one balance covering the casino and the sportsbook together. Both are product questions, and they get answered here the way everything else does, out of what the operator published, with the date attached.
On that axis the table stays mostly blank today, and the blanks are the honest part. Three rows carry a studio count taken from the operator’s own lobby on 26 August 2026: BetFury at 73 studios, Roobet at 64, TrustDice at 43. Vave, checked a day earlier, lists some 2,500 games from 40 studios with a sportsbook running on the same account. The other eight rows have those fields unread, so the cells stay empty rather than borrowed from a competitor’s review.
The in-house game sets earn a page of their own rather than a column here, because a set of six titles either sits in a lobby or fails to, and the evidence for that is a screenshot rather than a figure. Until those captures exist, a Stake alternative gets compared on this site by the four things every row already carries: the company, the permit, the length of the territorial list, and the moment documents are demanded.
The row that pays for its place
Vave sits at the top of the table because it pays to be there, and the row says so in as many words. Its cells were filled on the rules the other eleven were filled on. Withdrawals are processed within three business days under clause 8.1, anything above 50,000 USDT is paid in instalments under clause 8.8, and identity documents can be demanded before any payout at the operator’s discretion under clause 8.7, with fourteen days to supply them. The company on the paperwork is TechOptions Group B.V., which names Curaçao and publishes zero permit numbers — the weakest line in the whole table on that measure, printed here rather than smoothed over. The cashier lists around 90 coins, the lobby some 2,500 games from 40 studios, and the sportsbook shares the same account. The four-deposit welcome package caps at 4 BTC plus 100 free spins, taken from the promotions page captured on 24 August 2026, and the row as a whole was checked on 25 August 2026.
Its territorial list stays unread. Vave therefore appears in zero of the 122 country counts on this site, and that absence is ignorance on our side rather than a green light on its.
Seven countries at zero
Ireland, Norway and Luxembourg in Europe. Canada in North America. Kuwait in Asia, South Africa in Africa, New Zealand in Oceania. Seven countries out of 122 that go unnamed across all 38 lists read on 26 August 2026.
A reader in one of those seven arrives at a Stake alternative search with the widest field on this site. Zero here has a precise meaning and a narrow one, though.
Across the 38 lists read on that date, the country appears in none of them. Behind the figure, 62 documents stay shut. Alongside it, a payment processor keeps its own view. Ahead of it, a clause amended tomorrow moves the count without moving anything a reader can see today. Zero describes 38 documents on one date, and it describes them accurately.
A contract clause and a country’s law are separate documents
The count on every page here comes out of a contract. A restricted-territory clause is a term the operator wrote for its own agreement, enforced by the operator against its own customers, and amendable by the operator whenever it likes.
The law of a country is a different document with a different author: a statute passed by a legislature, applied by a regulator with a name and an address. The two overlap in places and diverge in others, and one of them answers nothing about the other. An operator may exclude a country whose law is silent, and may stay silent about a country whose law is loud.
These pages read the first kind of document and leave the second alone. Where a reader needs the law, the sources are the statute and the regulator that administers it, and zero figures printed here stand in for either of them.
What this site declines to publish
Scores out of ten are absent here for a mechanical reason: a score needs a published formula, this site publishes none, and a ranking whose formula is hidden is an opinion wearing a number.
Claims of play are absent for a simpler one. Nobody writing this site holds an account with any operator named on it, and the phrase “we tested” appears on zero pages. What stands in its place is a clause number and a date beside every figure, so a reader can go and check the source instead of trusting the summary. The rules are set out in full under how the documents get read, and the person doing the reading is described under the editor behind the counts.
One operator pays for its placement. Its row carries the mark, every link to it is a sponsored link, and its cells were written on the same rules as the rest. Where it loses on a figure somebody published, it loses on the page.