Before you place any bet, decide the most you are willing to lose and treat that money as already gone. The rest of this page explains why that habit and a few others work, what this site does and does not do, and where help from outside this site can be found.
Small habits keep gambling in its place
- Set the amount before you start. A limit chosen while calm holds up better than one chosen in the middle of a losing or winning streak, when judgement is at its weakest.
- Treat that amount as spent. If you think of the money as the price of entertainment, you will not feel you need to "get it back," and a loss stays the cost you already accepted.
- Never chase a loss. Each bet is independent of the last, so raising stakes to recover money tends to deepen the hole rather than fill it.
- Keep borrowed money out of it. Credit and loans turn a session's loss into debt that keeps costing you after the session ends.
- Take breaks. Time away interrupts the momentum of play and gives you a chance to check whether you are still enjoying it.
- Involve someone else early. When gambling stops feeling like entertainment, saying so to a person you trust makes the problem easier to face before it grows.
Independent help is linked from every page
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 NCPG. Each is an independent source of help.
These are the only outbound links on the site that are not commercial. Unlike the operator links, they carry no sponsored marking. They are set to nofollow and open in a separate tab on the organisations' own websites. This site receives nothing when you follow them.
Adults only, and checks happen elsewhere
The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout this site, including on the front page. Nobody's age is verified here, and no gambling takes place on this site. Any check of that kind happens at the destination you choose to visit.
This site cannot act on your account
Spending caps, loss caps, reality checks, cooling-off periods and self-exclusion belong to an operator account. You arrange them yourself inside your account at the destination. This site has no account, no form and no server-side application, so nothing published here can switch such a control on, check it or enforce it for you.
No advertising or behavioural profiling network is present in these pages, so nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour. The site counts page views and outbound clicks for its own traffic figures and sets no cookies. If you want to stop, your next steps are to use the controls inside your own operator account and to contact one of the independent organisations listed above.