It looks like he’s trying to disconnect himself again with gambling and I do hope that he succeed by time or he might be very busy gambling again. OP has a big problem here, and this is beyond the control of STAKE. Gambler should be more responsible and never rely on any site to help you control with your addiction, this should be your top priority to remain not addict.
We all wish him to follow what he wants to do and if he wants to avoid gambling, just make his own initiative and ways of avoiding it. He has contacted stake about it but things should be in his control now and he's the one who should control everything pertaining to his gambling activities.
When the people get a loss.They will made disappointed towards the website and started to report it blindly. But they have to hold and cross verify whether it's really fake website or you loss by the less knowledge in it. If you find it faulty for verification. You had a full rights to escalate here. Stake.com had some users and their payments to participants was on time, So I had not believe the O.P statement fully.
Well, it's not the issue of being fake or legitimate. It's an obvious legitimate website and we all know what stake is. I guess this thread has gone too far and should be locked.