Patriots fans, I have some terrible news. Drake just bet $1 million on your team. Start making peace with your parlay right now.

The rapper announced Saturday night on Instagram that he placed $1 million on the Patriots moneyline at +190 through Stake, the crypto gambling platform he's been hemorrhaging money on for years. If New England pulls the upset tonight, Drake walks away with roughly $1.9 million in profit. If the Drake Curse holds—and it always holds—the Patriots are absolutely cooked.

The Quick Hit

• What happened: Drake bet $1 million on Patriots moneyline at +190 via Stake
• The damage: Potential $1.9M payout, but the curse says otherwise
• Why you should care: The Drake Curse is undefeated and has cost this man over $30 million
• The move: If you had Patriots money, consider hedging. Seriously.

The Curse Is Real and It Has Receipts

Let's run through the recent carnage, because Drake's gambling record reads like a horror novel written by a sportsbook's marketing department.

In 2025 alone: he lost $1 million on the Maple Leafs in the NHL playoffs. Gone. He dropped $800K on the NBA Finals. Torched. He got clipped betting the US Open. The man cannot stop losing, and he cannot stop posting about it.

His total gambling losses reportedly exceed $30 million over the past few years. Thirty million dollars. You could buy a small island. You could fund a mid-market MLB team's payroll for a season. Instead, Drake has donated it to crypto casinos and sportsbooks one Instagram story at a time.

The Drake Curse extends beyond his own bets, too. Teams and fighters he publicly supports have an eerie tendency to lose. He's been spotted with UFC fighters before they get knocked out, soccer teams before they get eliminated, and basketball teams before they choke away series leads. The man is a walking bad omen in a Canada Goose jacket.

This Is His Super Bowl Return

Drake skipped betting the Super Bowl last year—or at least didn't post about it—so this is his return to the biggest stage. And naturally, he went big. Not a cautious $100K teaser. Not a same-game parlay with some built-in hedge. A million dollars, straight up, on the moneyline. The most volatile bet you can make on a game with a 4.5-point spread.

The Patriots are +190 underdogs for a reason. The Seahawks have the better defense, the better running game, and home-field advantage at Lumen Field would matter if this were a regular season game. But it's the Super Bowl in New Orleans—neutral site. Still, Seattle is the consensus pick. 82.8% of ESPN's experts are on the Seahawks. Drake is on the other side, which historically has meant death.

He's Not Alone on the Pats

To be fair, Drake isn't the only famous person throwing big money at New England. Mattress Mack put $2 million on the Patriots at +200 through Caesars, and Kendall Jenner has a million on the Pats moneyline as part of her bet war with Devin Booker.

But neither Mack nor Jenner carries the curse. Mack actually won $75 million on the Astros. Jenner doesn't have a documented history of destroying every team she touches. Drake is the common denominator in a decade of public betting failures, and now he's attached himself to the Patriots like a barnacle on a sinking ship.

The Stake of It All

Drake's relationship with Stake—the Curacao-licensed crypto gambling platform—has been one of the more fascinating celebrity-gambling partnerships in recent memory. He's their marquee ambassador, and the arrangement essentially gives him a platform to lose millions in public while Stake gets free advertising every time he posts a bet slip. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement where Drake provides content and Stake provides an endless supply of deposit buttons.

The platform isn't licensed in most US states, operating primarily for international bettors using cryptocurrency. Drake, as a Canadian resident, bets through it legally. The rest of us just watch the carnage unfold on social media.

The Bottom Line

Drake put $1 million on the Patriots. The Drake Curse has never lost. These two facts cannot coexist peacefully, and if history is any guide, New England is about to get steamrolled by the Seahawks while Drake posts a sad story from his Toronto mansion at 11 PM. If you're a Patriots fan, you needed Drake to bet on Seattle. Instead, you got the worst possible endorsement in gambling history. Condolences.