October at Cloudbet belonged to the whales. Whale Watch put the biggest live bets on the site in front of everyone, from the sports lobby to its own page on Pulse, and tip cards started showing each tipster's win rate. In the casino, Cloudbet's own studio launched Fearshot: Phantom Mansion with a launch-day race, the Super Soccer Tournament put $20,000 up for grabs, a Halloween slate landed alongside new titles from the big studios, the Daily Race made its debut, and the month's biggest wins came from Hacksaw Gaming, Nolimit City and Cloudbet's own Plinko.
Whale Watch: follow the biggest bets live
Whale Watch was the big story of October, and it arrived in stages. On October 2nd, the sports lobby gained a live board that follows the single largest bet in play, with real-time scores and prices for every leg, and it opens as an overlay so you don't lose your place. On October 9th, the feature got a page of its own: Whale Watch on Pulse shows the biggest live bets on the site as they play out, plus a row of top whale players worth keeping an eye on, reachable straight from the Pulse menu. Mid-month, players gained the ability to follow and pin specific whales, with an alert in the activity inbox when one of them places a bet, linking straight to the live board. And on October 19th, league pages started showing the biggest live bet in that league in the right-hand sidebar. When no big bet is running, the page looks exactly as it did before.
Whale Watch on Pulse shows the largest bets live on Cloudbet as they play out, with real-time scores and prices for every leg.
Win rates on every tip
On October 7th, Pulse started showing a tipster's recent form right on their posts. A small win-rate chip now sits next to the player's name on tip cards in the Pulse feed, showing their win rate over the last 30 days, or their parlay win rate over 90 days for players who mostly build parlays. It means you can judge whether a tip is worth tailing at a glance, without opening a profile. The same chip appears on Whale Watch and the Featured Player card. It only shows once a player has enough settled bets to mean something, and it stays hidden below 30%.
A tipster's recent form now sits next to their name on Pulse tip cards.
Fearshot: Phantom Mansion opens its doors
On October 28th, Cloudbet's in-house studio launched Fearshot: Phantom Mansion, a ghost hunt on rails through a haunted mansion of seven rooms. Every shot you fire is a bet, and capturing a ghost pays your stake times its multiplier, up to 350x. To mark the launch, the casino ran a one-day "Open House" wager race on the game from launch morning, with points earned on every real-money shot and the souls you capture boosting your score when the boss appears. It's a fitting arrival for the last week of October.
The Super Soccer Tournament
Football fans got a tournament of their own this month. The Super Soccer Tournament puts a $20,000 prize pool on the line, and its leaderboard stays open until November 2nd. Like every Cloudbet tournament, the rules are simple: play the eligible games, climb the leaderboard, and finish high enough to take a share of the pool. There's still time to get in before it closes.
Cloudbet's Super Soccer Tournament runs until November 2nd.
New on the casino floor
The casino floor got busier in October. Alongside Fearshot, Cloudbet's own studio added Roadster Thrust, a quick-fire Original with a listed RTP of 99%. The studios leaned into the season too, and there's a proper Halloween slate to work through:
1. Big Bass Halloween Splash 1000 (Pragmatic Play)
2. Chicken Halloween (BGaming)
3. Aviamasters 2 Halloween (BGaming)
4. Noche de Almas (BGaming)
Outside the spooky stuff, the big names kept the releases coming. Pragmatic Play brought Sweet Bonanza POP, Nolimit City added Six Feet Under and Gator Hunters 2, and Hacksaw Gaming delivered Doctor Dust, Wicked Grin and Demonic Dolls. Play'n GO's Redtail Robber Cash Vault Heist rounds out a strong month of new titles.
The Daily Race
October also brought a new idea to the casino: the Daily Race. On October 8th, a Daily Race card appeared in the desktop site's left-hand menu, showing a live countdown and the prize pool for the current race and updating on its own as each one starts and ends. The concept is simple: a fresh casino tournament every day, so there's always a leaderboard in play without waiting for the next big event. The format ran as a pilot this month.
Biggest wins of the month
Hacksaw Gaming's slots ran hottest in October, landing three of the month's top hits, led by a 10,818x win on Le Fisherman. Cloudbet's own Plinko paid the month's largest sum, and Nolimit City's Gator Hunters 2 turned a single cent into a 8,689x win.
1. On October 6th, a player turned $5 into $54,088.50, a 10,818x hit on Le Fisherman (Hacksaw Gaming).
2. On October 7th, a player turned $0.01 into $114.28, a 8,689x hit on Gator Hunters 2 (Nolimit City).
3. On October 7th, a player turned $1.12 into $8,398.70, a 7,500x hit on Pug Life (Hacksaw Gaming).
4. On October 24th, a player turned $0.20 into $2,000, a 10,000x hit on Maxwin Machine (Hacksaw Gaming).
5. On October 26th, a player turned $8.56 into $71,325.01, a 8,333x hit on Plinko (Cloudbet).