Drake curse still not lifted.

[Fortify]

This rapper and stake ambassador, who has been known to be making bets with large sums and bets that always end up playing opposite of what he staked, still made another bet with $1.5M on Argentina to win this just-concluded final, and just as expected, the game ended against Argentina, and Spain won them by 1 goal.

What made me bring this here is someone said on meta that  the moment Drake's bet slip started trending online he lost hope for Argentina he cashed out his already staked game, that even if there were chances for them to win, that curse following Drake around wouldn't let them win. Lol.

Has Lionel Messi been ‘cursed’ by $1.5m bet? Drake reveals World Cup final wager ahead of Argentina vs Spain - with support from rap superstar not always appreciated before you know it some narrative by Argentina 🇦🇷 fans might start flying and pointing fingers to Drake as reason to why they lost to Spain 🇪🇸.

People are just naturally bad at overestimating their skills and while I dislike Argentina's team in general, this match could have gone either way (at least that was what many thought before the match started). The odds were about even so it was pretty much a 50/50 chance either side could win and he simply picked wrong. Argentina were essentially a team of bullies but with a legendary player among them who managed to carry them through a lot of the tournament. It's quite clear Drake is no pro picker, so anyone still following his bets is a fool. This is all pocket change to him anyway, if it even is real at all - it can all be faked by his major sponsor Stake.com or they could simply have a contract arrangement where if he wins - he keeps, if he loses - he doesn't actually pay a dime.

[hedgeh0g]

... pointing fingers to Drake as reason to why they lost to Spain 🇪🇸.

I don't think it's a curse at all, but just a very unfortunate set of circumstances.
I don't want to be superstitious, because this is only the second high-profile failed drake bet in my memory. Yes, he's incredibly unlucky, but that's nothing. The main thing is not to lose faith and think more about your bets. He just fell for populism when he decided to bet on Argentina, which is so famous because of Messi's genius. But this does not mean that now this team will always win. Objectively, Messi is no longer young for football and I don't want to blame him, he was cool, but the Spaniards are young and fast. That's what I thought.

[Nwada001]

I cannot trust anyone involved whether directly or indirectly with a gambling site. It looks like he's casting a wide net to catch plenty of fish. I'm not saying Stake is doing anything malicious, but personally, I wouldn't trust anything said or done by someone involved with a gambling site. At some point in the future, you might see Drake make a big win that makes you believe in him again, but in the end, he will leave you devastated.

He’s doing anything he can to attract an audience to the casino; it doesn't matter how he’s doing it, but one question here I have to ask is even if Drake were not part of Stake, are you supposed to believe him and blindly follow whatever he stakes? I don’t know how some people follow influencers or public figures, but whatever information or anything they share should not just be trusted; you need to run your own verification. The online space is wild; if you are not careful, you get swallowed by it.

[Juicyhome]

Drake is not cursed the people following his bet slips are the ones on curse, we all know Drake is stake ambassador,  he work is to promote the brand and that's what his doing by showcasing huge amount bet slip to attract gamblers to stake, many if his bet slips are for promotion,  not really about it, drake and stake are the one Making money from people that stake same game.

Never fall for drake and stake trick,  also stake with what you can afford to lose, don't be motivated by drake and stake promotion.  Gambling supposed to be personal never allow any influencer to influence your bet. Stake responsibly and try not to be addicted to it.

[Itz-prisigold]

I don't think it's a curse at all, but just a very unfortunate set of circumstances.
I don't want to be superstitious, because this is only the second high-profile failed drake bet in my memory. Yes, he's incredibly unlucky, but that's nothing. The main thing is not to lose faith and think more about your bets. He just fell for populism when he decided to bet on Argentina, which is so famous because of Messi's genius. But this does not mean that now this team will always win. Objectively, Messi is no longer young for football and I don't want to blame him, he was cool, but the Spaniards are young and fast. That's what I thought.

I do agree that people are just giving coincidence more credit than it deserves when referring to someone beting on a team a curse.  And it is very funny how we humans can easily allow these stories influence our decisions. So just because a celebrity placed his bet on the team that they are supporting,  it automatically mean that wager had an impact on what occurred on the field, that is just superstition

Each game is different and the winning team will most likely be the better team on the day.  The truth is that, if Drake had put his money on Spain, and Argentina had still lost, then people would likely have another narrative, it's more sensible to judge the result by what happened on the pitch, rather than who placed a bet before kickoff!

[fredericktaylor]

I think it is very important to do your own research before gambling, the chances of losing money by gambling without knowing or understanding anything by relying on the words of others increases manifold, so it is better to gamble with a small amount of money within your means, as a result of which you can maintain self-control over yourself and protect yourself from big financial losses and protect yourself from gambling addiction. So it is better to gamble for entertainment purposes with the money that we can lose.

[Jubilee58]

Do you really think this man is caused? Drake has placed a very significant bet that has become the talk of the day, but I don't really think his huge stake is the reason why Argentina did not win this FIFA world cup 2026.
Argentina played a very strong team, and whoever that watch the FIFA world cup finals will testify that Spain deserve that trophy. From the beginning of the match between Spain, and Argentina, Spain dominated Argentina almost in everything, and even Spain scored goals that was cancelled.

I think Argentina did not loose the FIFA world cup because of stake of Drake, but lost because the Spanish team had an edge or is more better than the Argentine team.

[Webutxo]

Gambling should be based only on your  own opinion. You should not trust any influencer or celebrity in this  regard. It cannot be said for sure that they are not agents of gambling companies. You should not even trust the predictions of a friend. In the case of gambling, you should always give priority to your own desires and  analysis. We will listen to the predictions and analysis  of different people. But the  final decision will be made on your own. I have seen that many people  take huge risks on the advice  of influencers or analysts. It is foolish to do so.

Opinion doesn't win bets but opinion that are factual. You know why? I can see a team that is good and in my opinion, without I have seen them played over the year, I will be interested in using them as favorite winner when they meet a team that has not been in the form but it's possible for that too fail because the team might be suffering from numbers of injure players, it's a known fact that a team that has injuries tend to loss most of the time.

I don't know how Drake had the confidence to place bet on Argentina, I don't think that guy knows how to bet. This team is controlled by Messi. If he becomes a target, it will become a problem for the team to win. Instead of them to focus on their self, they depended. It should have been a warning for drake to change his mind but you can't blame him, this is what you get when you bet with feelings than using facts and what the team is saying by their performance.

[Alex077]

I see the Drake Curse thing as complete internet meme. He bet $1.5M, lost, that's all. But I can never claim that Argentina lost because of Drake. In reality Spain was much more organized throughout the match, gave Argentina very few clear chance and won the match in extra time with a goal from Ferran Torres. After the match there was fight between players from both team over Enzo Fernandez's red card, which shows how intense the match was

What's even more interesting to me is that people still give Drake's bet more importance than the analysis. If a celebrity bet really changed the outcome of match then the coach, tactic, fitness, pressing, defense all of that would have been worthless

[Smartprofit]

When I read the thread title, I thought it was about the pirate captain Drake (after whom the strait is named). 🙋

So I started wondering who exactly this pirate captain had cursed. I assumed it was probably the Spanish (because of the Incan gold)...

But it turned out it was about the rapper Drake, who constantly makes incorrect predictions. However, if he's an ambassador for a major online casino, it's entirely possible he's not losing anything financially. Perhaps all this is already factored into the advertising budget. However, this is just a guess.

There are also many influential bloggers in trading who constantly make incorrect predictions. Therefore, there's always the temptation to use their predictions as a counter-indicator. But on the other hand, this tactic is also dangerous. You always wonder: what if this forecaster is learning and getting smarter over time?  What if his brain suddenly starts generating new neurons and he suddenly becomes smarter? I usually have these kinds of fears...

But, mystical motives aside, the Spanish football team was objectively stronger than Argentina. During the Spain-Portugal match, I didn't like their play at all. But when I watched the Spain-France match, I reconsidered my opinion of the Spaniards. They really are incredibly effective on the football field!⚽

[blomen]

it really strikes me as odd that drake has so much money yet is so unsuccessful at betting. i would have loved for argentina to win the championship, and to do it within 90 minutes, but it was almost certain they wouldn’t be able to pull it off against spain. if this curse is real and teams are losing games just because of drake, i’ll be betting against him on his next big bet. besides, the millions he’s lost don’t make any difference to him anyway.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

it really strikes me as odd that drake has so much money yet is so unsuccessful at betting. i would have loved for argentina to win the championship, and to do it within 90 minutes, but it was almost certain they wouldn’t be able to pull it off against spain. if this curse is real and teams are losing games just because of drake, i’ll be betting against him on his next big bet. besides, the millions he’s lost don’t make any difference to him anyway.

It's because gambling is about luck. So there are no assurance that you can always win or even have a successful rate of at least 50% of winning. Maybe it was just that it's not for Argentina to win the world cup.

But since Drake bet on them with huge amount of money and lost obviously, people thinks that he is the one to blame for their lost. But actually, it was Spain that really put a great defense on Argentina. So Drake has nothing to do with it, it's that he chooses the wrong team to win.

[Asiska02]

He’s doing anything he can to attract an audience to the casino; it doesn't matter how he’s doing it, but one question here I have to ask is even if Drake were not part of Stake, are you supposed to believe him and blindly follow whatever he stakes? I don’t know how some people follow influencers or public figures, but whatever information or anything they share should not just be trusted; you need to run your own verification. The online space is wild; if you are not careful, you get swallowed by it.

People don’t even know how much of which this influencer marketing works. Just because you see a well known influencer staking huge amount on a bet doesn’t mean you should do the same, sometimes they’re not even using their real money to do it but an account created for them by the casino for the marketing purpose. For people like Drake, one may be convinced that he’s using that big amount of money to bet because of how rich and affluent he is even though an account can also be created for him as disguise. If you fall for influencers bait, then you’re already making a big mistake in your gambling journey and that could mean more risk and more susceptibility to losses for you in the long run.

[Felicity_Tide]

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Has Lionel Messi been ‘cursed’ by $1.5m bet? Drake reveals World Cup final wager ahead of Argentina vs Spain - with support from rap superstar not always appreciated before you know it some narrative by Argentina 🇦🇷 fans might start flying and pointing fingers to Drake as reason to why they lost to Spain 🇪🇸.

Why are we even bringing this up?. Of course, I agree that the 'drake curse' has been a thing, but is it not obvious that this is just another marketing strategy?, like he's literally the face of the brand he promotes. He places a bet and drops it online... How are we even sure that he's actually staking his own money?. I honestly don't see any reasons for Argentina fans to start pointing fingers at him because it's just unnecessary. I personally don't like it when we relate footballing activities to things like that. I'm a supporter of Messi, but the truth is, they didn't even play anything meaningful in that game, so there was no way the universe was going to reward even if drake had bet on Spain to win.

[Franklyn-wood]

I think it is very important to do your own research before gambling, the chances of losing money by gambling without knowing or understanding anything by relying on the words of others increases manifold, so it is better to gamble with a small amount of money within your means, as a result of which you can maintain self-control over yourself and protect yourself from big financial losses and protect yourself from gambling addiction. So it is better to gamble for entertainment purposes with the money that we can lose.

It's not easy to use only money one can afford to lose when there is no self control. Most people feels they have failed in other ways and they can only recover from what ever losses through gambling as the fastest way to get back all. Checking in and knowing what the site is up to is very important not only believing what people say about a the site. Most don't have the time to long packed terms and continue only to know what guides the interest every one in the site.

[alastantiger]

Drake has lost a lot due to his recklessness and initially I didn't really know why it is called the drake's curse until started understanding why people say that, it almost feels like drake's bet is a jinx to the matches even though that might not really be the case, it all just happens coincidentally.

I thought the Drake curse was lifted last year when he had a successful bet but it looks like that was just a lucky bet as the curse continues, Drake is a rich celebrity hence all this money he's betting is not 1% of his wealth as I believe he has more than enough to have some fun with few thousands of dollars which is looking big to us but to him that is nothing. He also has an endorsement deal and making Stake popular is one of the reason behind his publicity stunts, Drake is having fun and paying for that fun with the money that he is losing because he gets engagement and more popular for each of his bet which also helps him in his career as a musician because what he needs is attention and he gets that from this publicity stunts that he is doing. We cannot be like him and be losing always since we cannot afford that but he can afford it and that is why he is still doing what he is doing despite losing.

[Alphakilo]

Drake has lost a lot due to his recklessness and initially I didn't really know why it is called the drake's curse until started understanding why people say that, it almost feels like drake's bet is a jinx to the matches even though that might not really be the case, it all just happens coincidentally.

I thought the Drake curse was lifted last year when he had a successful bet but it looks like that was just a lucky bet as the curse continues, Drake is a rich celebrity hence all this money he's betting is not 1% of his wealth as I believe he has more than enough to have some fun with few thousands of dollars which is looking big to us but to him that is nothing. He also has an endorsement deal and making Stake popular is one of the reason behind his publicity stunts, Drake is having fun and paying for that fun with the money that he is losing because he gets engagement and more popular for each of his bet which also helps him in his career as a musician because what he needs is attention and he gets that from this publicity stunts that he is doing. We cannot be like him and be losing always since we cannot afford that but he can afford it and that is why he is still doing what he is doing despite losing.

What Drake is experiencing isn't a curse, because I think he uses the amount he can afford to lose and just like every other gambler, he is just in his losing streak phase. When the win starts coming in, maybe we would then say the curse is lifted, forgetting that there was once upon a time where he lost back to back.

[Hispo]

it really strikes me as odd that drake has so much money yet is so unsuccessful at betting. i would have loved for argentina to win the championship, and to do it within 90 minutes, but it was almost certain they wouldn’t be able to pull it off against spain. if this curse is real and teams are losing games just because of drake, i’ll be betting against him on his next big bet. besides, the millions he’s lost don’t make any difference to him anyway.

Well, just because someone has millions of dollars, it does not mean that same person cannot also lose those millions of dollars doing some dumb things. In the case of Drake, he seems to be careful enough to keep is income of money significantly higher than whatever he decides to burn on Stake thanks to his personal curse.

At least he does not seem to be addicted, otherwise he would be in serious trouble. There have been documented cases and rich people who have wasted the fortunate because of gambling with no control.

Also, Argentina played so bad that it makes me believe Drake's curse is a fact. Because it does not have any other explanation.

[alegotardo]

This rapper and stake ambassador, who has been known to be making bets with large sums and bets that always end up playing opposite of what he staked, still made another bet with $1.5M on Argentina to win this just-concluded final, and just as expected, the game ended against Argentina, and Spain won them by 1 goal.

What made me bring this here is someone said on meta that  the moment Drake's bet slip started trending online he lost hope for Argentina he cashed out his already staked game, that even if there were chances for them to win, that curse following Drake around wouldn't let them win. Lol.

He was smart, he saw that Argentina was playing terribly and cashed out before the match ended. He made the right decision, because otherwise he would have lost much more.

However, I believe this rapper is a kind of person who only bets what he is willing to lose. Even though $1.5 million may seem like a lot of money to us, but for him it is probably what he spends on a single night of party (or earns when he is the one entertaining the people).

Wel... I also bet on Argentina victory, but I did not cash out before the end. I went all the way, as I always do.
I lost the bet (which I made based on reason), but I won the night, because in my heart I was rooting for a Spain victory (Argentina, enemy forever). In the end... my feelings were balanced between the money I lost and the joy of not seeing Argentina lift another trophy.

[Natalim]

He was smart, he saw that Argentina was playing terribly and cashed out before the match ended. He made the right decision, because otherwise he would have lost much more.

I thought the bet was already lost, so if he cashed out, at least he did not lose everything and only minimized his loss.

But I did not know he was that clever. What if the result had gone the other way and Argentina won after he cashed out? I wonder how he would have felt about that.

This cash-out feature can really help if you use it at the right time, especially when you are watching the game. The problem is that we cannot predict the result correctly every time. But I guess that is not really the main issue here because people are talking about the Drake curse. Argentina lost, and it was more than a $1.5 million bet.

That loss probably also hurt many other bettors who did not care about cashing out and simply trusted Argentina all the way.