This page covers practical habits for keeping gambling under control, the help links this site carries, and the limits of what a static information site can do for you.
Habits
Each habit below exists for a practical reason, not as a slogan.
- Decide the amount before you start. A figure chosen calmly beforehand is more reliable than one chosen mid-session, when wins and losses distort judgement.
- Treat that amount as already spent. If you expect nothing back, a loss does not feel like a debt to recover, and any return is a bonus rather than a target.
- Never chase a loss. Each bet is independent. Staking more to win back money only increases the amount at risk and rarely changes the outcome.
- Keep borrowed money out of it. Credit, loans or money owed to others turn a pastime into an obligation that lasts long after the session ends.
- Take breaks. Stepping away interrupts the momentum of play and gives you a moment to check whether you are still within your plan.
- Involve someone else early. When gambling stops being entertainment, telling a person you trust makes the problem harder to hide and easier to address.
Help
Every page of this site, this one included, carries links to five independent gambling-help organisations. You will find them in the help links on each page:
- BeGambleAware
- Gamble Aware
- Gambling Therapy
- G GamCare Gambling Support: Starts Here
- NCPG
These are the only non-commercial outbound links on the site. Unlike the operator links, they carry no sponsored marking. They are set to nofollow and open in a separate tab on each organisation's own website. This site receives nothing when you follow them. The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout the site, including on the front page.
Limits
This site is a set of static pages. It cannot act on your behalf if you want to stop.
- There is no account, form or server-side application here. Spending caps, loss caps, session reminders, time-outs and exclusion are things you arrange inside your own account at the gambling destination. Nothing published here can switch one on, check one or enforce one.
- No one's age is verified on this site, and no gambling takes place on it. Any check of that kind happens at the destination.
- These pages contain no advertising or behavioural profiling network, so nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour.