How the Casino Tracker Catches Big Bets From 'Hidden' Players
Published 2026-10-09 · Tags: tracker, data
Stake's high-roller feed publishes every $1k+ result, hidden or not. How we log it, the bias it creates, and this week's totals: 27M casino, 11.7M sports bets.
"How can you track a player who hides their bets?"
Fair question, asked every week, and the answer is more interesting than "we can't". We partly can, by design, and the design is Stake's, not ours.
Two feeds
Stake publishes two public bet feeds. The normal feed shows bets from players who haven't hidden their activity. The high-roller feed shows every result above a threshold (a $1,000 payout for casino, a $1,000 stake for sports) and it shows them whether or not the player is hidden. A hidden player's big result appears with the name replaced by "Hidden" and everything else intact: game, amount, payout, multiplier, currency, timestamp.
That second feed is the one most people don't know about, and it's the one that makes a tracker meaningful. Without it you'd only see the people who chose to be seen, which is a biased sample of mostly small bettors. With it, every significant result on the platform is public, named or not.
What we do with it
We log both feeds continuously, from stake.com and stake.us, and store every bet with the game, the amounts in native currency and USD, the multiplier and the time. For public players, bets attach to their profile. For hidden players, bets attach to the game (so the slot's biggest-win and top-multiplier stats include them) and to the feed, but not to a person.
That's why a hidden player can appear in the LARP check (the bet exists, the time matches) but not on a leaderboard (we don't know who it was).
The bias this creates
Our aggregate stats are biased toward big payouts, and we say so wherever they're shown. The casino tracker's overall "RTP" is well above 100% because it adds up a feed that only includes winners above $1k; small losses never enter the sample. It's an honest number about a biased sample, not a claim that the casino pays out more than it takes. Per-slot pages use every tracked bet on that slot, which is less skewed but still not the published RTP; for that, use Slot Cruncher or the slot's demo page.
Some numbers, as of this week
- About 27 million casino bets tracked across 12,800 games and 420,000 distinct public players.
- About 11.7 million sports bets from 550,000 bettors, $5.5 billion in tracked volume, since we started logging in December.
- The threshold feeds mean a $0.20 bet that pays $1,500 is captured. A $900 bet that pays $900 isn't.
What this means for you
If you hide your bets, your small ones are invisible to everyone. Your big ones are not, and never were; Stake publishes them. If that bothers you, the setting you want is on Stake's side, and it doesn't exist. If it doesn't bother you, the upside is that your 30,000x on a two-cent bet goes in the record books under "Hidden" and nobody can say it didn't happen.
Full write-up on verifying a specific claimed win is in the LARP check post. The live feed itself is at /casino.