This page covers practical habits for keeping gambling under control and explains what this site can and cannot do for someone who wants to cut back or stop. Gambling here is meant for adults aged eighteen and over only, a restriction repeated throughout this site, including on the front page.
Habits
The advice below needs no special tools. Each point comes with the reason it helps.
- Decide the amount before you start. A number chosen in advance is set with a clear head. A number chosen mid-session is set by whatever just happened, a win or a loss.
- Treat that money as already spent. If you think of it as the price of entertainment, like a cinema ticket, you are not waiting to get it back. Losing it then hurts less, and there is less pull to keep going.
- Never chase a loss. Each bet is independent of the last one, so a loss does not make a win more likely. Raising stakes to recover usually makes the loss larger and faster.
- Keep gambling away from borrowed money. Credit and loans add repayments and interest to the loss. They also turn a bad evening into a lasting debt.
- Take breaks. Time passes quickly during play, and fast rounds blur how much has gone. Stepping away gives you a moment to check the clock and the balance honestly.
- Involve someone else early. Gambling can stop being entertainment and start feeling like an obligation, a secret or a way to fix money problems. Telling a person you trust at that point is easier than after the damage grows. Another person can also notice changes you might explain away.
Limits
You can set a deposit cap, a loss cap, a reality check, a cooling-off period or self-exclusion inside your own account at the gambling destination. This site has no account, no form and no server-side application. Nothing published here can switch one of those controls on, check that it is working or enforce it. If you want one in place, arrange it directly in your account on the operator's site.
This site does not verify anyone's age, and no gambling takes place on it. Any age check happens at the destination you choose to visit. This site also runs no advertising or behavioural profiling network. Nothing here is targeted at a reader based on signs of risky behaviour, and nothing here can detect such signs.
Help
Every page of this site, this one included, carries links to five independent gambling-help organisations:
- BeGambleAware
- Gamble Aware
- Gambling Therapy
- G GamCare Gambling Support: Starts Here
- NCPG
These are the only non-commercial outbound links on the site. They differ from the operator links in three ways:
- They carry no sponsored marking.
- They are set to nofollow.
- They open in a separate tab on each organisation's own website.
This site receives nothing when you follow one of them.
Privacy
If you arrived from a search engine, the only thing recorded about a click is the text of the clicked button, and that is used only to count clicks. Once you open a help organisation's site, that site receives your request directly from your browser and keeps its own record of it, under its own practices.