Drake says he received over 1,000,000 {dollars} by betting on an NBA playoff sport. The celebrity posted the proof of his winnings on his Instagram Story.
The wager, as is his sample, was made on Stake, the web cryptocurrency on line casino Drizzy will get paid $100 million a 12 months to endorse, per a 2023 report from the Monetary Occasions, which cited “two individuals conversant in the small print.”
His seven-figure haul got here from betting on the Minnesota Timberwolves to conquer the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday (April 25). In Drake’s first submit in regards to the wager, he screenshotted his betslip with the caption “Lemme see sum Ant,” referring to Timberwolves participant Anthony Edwards.
In a second submit, Drake shared his $1,026,871.42 payout after Edwards did, actually, let him see sum by scoring 29 factors whereas main his group to a 116-104 victory.
That’s a fairly large prize, however Drake’s no stranger to profitable giant sums of cash from playing. He revealed a number of months in the past that he received a $40 million jackpot from playing whereas at, of all locations, a Dave & Buster’s. In a video commercial for Stake the place he answered totally different betting questions, Drake recalled what occurred.
“The most important win I ever had, I used to be in Dave & Buster’s,” he stated. “I used to be getting this random woman to name roulette numbers for me. I hit like eight out of 10 numbers, and I believe by the top of the evening, we had received like 38 million? 40 million? Yeah, $40 million. It is loopy, the craziest evening ever playing for positive. January of 2024, it was loopy. That is not even the phrase for it.”
Drake’s been an official companion of Stake since 2022. Again then, the playing platform’s co-founder, Ed Craven, expressed his pleasure for the partnership in a press release to SBC Americas.
“Drake has been an energetic member of our world group for a number of months now, so the following step and pure evolution within the relationship was for us to collaborate on a stream,” Craven stated.
“We share the identical love for crypto, playing and group and are like-minded followers of the expertise and tradition on the forefront of this motion,” he added.
Again in March, Drizzy joked that he posted a Stake advert so he may obtain a $2 million credit score to gamble with.
“MEMBERS WE ARE DOWN BAD ON STAKE SO I AM POSTING THIS SOLELY FOR 2 MILLION DOLLARS CREDIT TO SPIN SLOTS…PLS KEEP SCROLLING,” he wrote within the caption.
Earlier this month, Drake joined Adin Ross for his first playing stream of 2025 referred to as “Stake vs Drake & Adin.” On the stream, the duo gave out $1 million in prizes for viewers.