Social gaming giant Stake.us offers online poker alongside its range of social casino games. The product is part of their Stake Originals collection and is completely free to play, a speciality of Stake.us. 

It’s free to play, which means that no purchase is required to get started. New players receive Gold Coins when they sign up, which are used to play poker games. But it’s also important to point out that you won’t win money in any of the poker games on offer using these Gold Coins. 

You can however receive a different currency called Stake Cash through promotions on the site. Some tournaments and leaderboards will also award Coins as additional prizes. Stake Cash can be redeemed for prizes, which are often cryptocurrencies. There are also poker games on Stake.us that can be played using Stake Cash, to enable players to win more SC and redeem larger prizes. 

Latest bonus offers are listed below.

Stake Poker's game features, or modes, include:

Rapid Ring Games: Fast fold poker variant, where you are instantly whisked away to another table with new opponents as soon as you fold, rather than having to wait for the current hand to finish. 

Rapid Tournaments: Similar to rapid ring games, but a tournament format

Rabbit Hunting: A chance to peek at the cards that would have been dealt, if you hadn’t just folded your hand. It can be fun to know if you would have won or lost when you make that hero fold, but it can also be frustrating, which is why this is an option, as not every player wants to know.

Running-It-Twice: Once players are all-in, if there are still board cards to be dealt, players can choose to ‘run-it-twice’, which means that two separate sets of board cards are dealt. The pot is split in two and each set of board cards determines win each half of the pot.

Bomb Pots: Games that offer bomb pots add another exciting element to poker games. Randomly, some hands will become bomb pots, in which all players place additional chips into the pot and the flop is dealt out before any action takes place.

Bounty Tournaments: In the games, you earn additional rewards for eliminating opponents

Rebuys: Some tournaments allow players to continue playing the tournament if they lose their stack before the rebuy period has ended, which is usually for the first few blind levels.

Straddling: In some ring games, with four or more players, it’s possible to make a raise before any cards have been dealt.

Shootout Tournaments: These are tournaments that are structured like the F.A Cup. It’s a knockout competition and once you’ve defeated all the players on your first table, you move on to the next table. 

One Lucky Hand: These are games where no skill is required and no bets are made, all players are instantly put all-in every hand, until a winner emerges.

While there is a no deposit offer of up to $55 SC and 550,000 GC for new players who register with the NEWBONUS code, players may also purchase additional gold coins in bundles that also include Stake Coins. They can be purchased using these cryptocurrencies: 

There are several promotions ongoing at social gaming site Stake, such as daily bonus offers, daily and weekly cash prizes and leaderboards with payouts.

The promos include: