I had spent more than two years on Stake before looking elsewhere. Rainbet was one of the sites I tried along the way. I did not become a long-term Rainbet player, build up a VIP rank or wager a fortune there. My profile shows 361 bets and $938.08 wagered, and I am still Unranked. That is a much smaller test than my Stake history, but it is real money and enough experience to explain why I did not want to reload.
Duel has a larger body of my own evidence now: the first session, the second session and its £30 postscript, and 8 verified withdrawals across ETH and LTC. That difference in experience is worth making clear before comparing them.
The wider casino comparisons also include Stake, where I have played far more. Rainbet remains the shorter account test of the three.
I gave Rainbet a go, without getting very far
The account opened on 26 August. Its transaction history shows one ETH deposit, displayed as $77.32, and one completed ETH withdrawal, displayed as $80.70. The later bet history includes small Mines, Dice and Limbo stakes into September, so I am not claiming that I never opened the account again after the delayed cash-out.
Mines and Keno account for most of the casino bets in the export. There are also five football tickets. This was a limited test, not a long-term VIP account, and the $938.08 on the profile is turnover rather than the amount I deposited.
Rainbet’s rewards panel shows $11.42 in total rewards: $6.65 rakeback, $1.23 daily, $1.72 weekly and $1.82 monthly. Those rewards belong in the comparison too. Disliking the withdrawal experience is no reason to leave out money the account actually received.
The withdrawal was what put me off first
The withdrawal was only around $80 in ETH. I was testing the cash-out before considering a bigger reload. Roughly ninety minutes later, the transaction still was not visible on the blockchain, and I contacted support. The reply acknowledged an ERC-20 delay and said the team would monitor it. The support replies were quick, which I thanked them for at the time. The payment was not.
The money did arrive, but I remember it as an hours-long wait for a withdrawal that was supposed to tell me whether I wanted to trust Rainbet with more. Having to ask where it had gone did not make me want to reload.
I thanked support for answering quickly at the time. That still seems fair: the person replying to me was helpful, even though the payment itself was taking far longer than I wanted.
Duel’s first two ETH withdrawals reached the blockchain within 1:11 and 6:47 of the recorded request minutes. I did not have to chase either one. The six later LTC transfers are now included on the withdrawal page. These are my payments, not a guarantee that either casino will always be faster.
- Rainbet, before support contact
- ~90 minutes
- Rainbet’s eventual status
- Complete
- Duel, matched account receipts
- 8 withdrawals
Mines was the comparison that mattered to me
I have played a lot of Mines. When two sites offer a recognisable version of that same game, I care about the published return. The September checks recorded Duel at 100% RTP and Rainbet at a maximum of 96% on Mines. That is a four-percentage-point difference in the advertised maths.
At £1,000 of turnover, a 4% house edge represents £40 of expected cost before rewards. Turnover counts the same money again whenever it is staked, so it can build much faster than deposits. The calculation does not predict a particular session, and it is not a claim that I personally lost exactly £40.
The gap varies by game. Rainbet’s published maximum was 99% on Dice, Limbo, Keno and Plinko, while its Blackjack figure was 99.60%. Duel’s 100% card-game headline depends on correct play. Rock Paper Scissors is also a different proposition on Duel because it is played against another person rather than the house.
| Game | Duel | Rainbet |
|---|---|---|
| Mines | 100% | 96% maximum |
| Dice / Limbo / Keno / Plinko | 100% | 99% maximum |
| Blackjack | 100%, correct play | 99.60% maximum |
| Beef / Chicken Cross | 100% | 96% maximum; different game |
Sources: the dated Originals checks and the individual game pages linked there. These are theoretical returns, not measured account payouts.
The welcome balance comes with a condition
Rainbet’s first-deposit promotion, checked again on 19 September, requires 40 times the combined deposit and bonus in turnover. Its example doubles a $100 deposit to $200 of play funds, then requires $8,000 of wagering before the balance can be withdrawn. Games above 97.4% RTP are excluded while that promotion is active.
That is a published offer, not a bonus I am claiming to have personally completed. Someone who wants the bigger promotional balance can weigh up the conditions. I prefer the value being in the game return, without adding a promotional wagering target to the amount I already planned to play.
Duel also has rakeback on eligible third-party games. The saved September tooltip shows 50% of the game’s house edge being returned: a 96.51% game becomes 98.26% after rounding. It is not a universal 2% of every bet. The bonus and rakeback guide shows the actual screen and the calculation.
The football prices gave me another reason
I like Duel’s football prices as well. Across 26 Premier League and Champions League fixtures, the comparison includes 78 full-time result prices. Duel offered a higher price than Rainbet on 78 outcomes and tied on 0. The average relative payout advantage was 7.77% on the same winning stake.
The latest capture in that record is 8 September 2026. Prices move, and a selection can become worse while the next one becomes better. I still check the price on the actual bet I want, rather than assuming the next market will favour the same book.
Neither asked me for ID during these tests
Rainbet did not ask me for ID during the withdrawal I am describing. Duel did not ask during my two documented sessions either. I therefore cannot fairly turn the Rainbet payment delay into a KYC complaint.
Nor does a completed no-ID withdrawal promise that a future payment will be treated the same way. Duel’s current terms reserve the right to request verification. My KYC article keeps the observed account result separate from that written condition.
Why I kept using Duel
The slow Rainbet cash-out mattered because getting money back without chasing support was already something I expected from Stake. Duel then gave me a reason to prefer the games themselves, particularly Mines, and the football price checks strengthened that preference.
Rainbet paid me, and its rewards panel shows that I received something back from the play. I still thought the withdrawal experience was poor. Having to chase an $80 test payment did not make me want to trust it with a bigger reload, and the higher published return on Duel’s Mines gave me another reason to leave my main play there.