Before you follow any link from this site to a gambling operator, decide how much you are prepared to lose and stop when it is gone. Every other habit on this page builds on that one decision.
Money Rules: Set Early
Gambling outcomes are designed to favour the operator over time, so the safest way to treat a stake is as the price of entertainment.
- Decide the amount before starting. A limit chosen in advance is made with a clear head. A limit chosen mid-session is shaped by whatever just happened.
- Treat it as spent. If the money is already written off, a loss doesn't feel like a debt to recover, and a win is a bonus rather than a reason to continue.
- Never chase a loss. Raising stakes to win back what is gone increases the amount at risk at the moment your judgement is weakest. The earlier loss stays lost either way.
- Keep gambling out of borrowed money. Credit, loans or money set aside for bills turn a bad night into a lasting obligation with interest attached.
Time Awareness: Regular Breaks
Long sessions blur how much time and money have gone, and fatigue makes impulsive decisions more likely.
- Step away at set intervals and check your spending against the amount you decided at the start.
- Stop if you notice you are playing to escape stress, boredom or low mood rather than for fun.
- Avoid gambling when tired or after drinking, when it is harder to stick to your own rules.
Outside Help: Involve Others
If gambling stops being entertainment, tell someone you trust early. Another person can notice patterns you have started to excuse. Independent organisations are also a source of 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, and GamCare.
- These links are set to nofollow, carry no sponsored marking and open in a separate tab on the organisations' own websites.
- They are the only non-commercial outbound links on the site, and this site receives nothing when you follow them.
Leaving Here: Destination Rules
Everything you can actually do with money happens after you leave this site.
- Each operator link redirects to a third party. From that moment, the destination's rules, checks and account controls apply, not anything published here.
- Caps on deposits or losses, reality checks, cooling-off periods and self-exclusion are things you arrange inside your own account at the destination.
- Gambling is for people aged eighteen and over only. This restriction is repeated throughout this site, including on the front page.
Site Limits: Plainly Stated
This site is a set of static pages. It cannot act on your behalf if you want to stop gambling.
- This build has no account, no form and no server-side application. Nothing published here can switch on, check or enforce any spending or time control. Those controls live only in an account at the destination.
- Nobody's age is verified on this site, and no gambling takes place on it. Any check of that kind happens at the destination.
- No advertising or behavioural profiling network is present in these pages, so nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour.
- This site does not control what happens on a partner site. A linked destination receives your request directly and keeps its own record of it.