This page explains what this site can and cannot do for someone whose gambling is becoming a problem, where real controls are set up, and how to keep gambling in proportion.
Limits
This site is a set of static pages. It has no account, no form and no server-side application, so nothing published here can switch on, check or enforce a spending or time control. Deposit caps, loss caps, reality checks, cooling-off periods and self-exclusion are things a reader arranges inside their own account at the destination. No gambling takes place here and nobody's age is verified here. Any check of that kind happens at the destination. No advertising or behavioural profiling network runs in these pages, so nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour.
Help
Every page of this site, including this one, carries links to six independent sources of help:
- BeGambleAware
- Gamble Aware
- Gambling Therapy
- G GamCare Gambling Support: Starts Here
- GamCare
- GAM STOP
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 a reader follows them.
Leaving
Anything a reader does with money happens after leaving this site. Each operator link redirects to a third party. From that moment, that destination's rules, checks and account controls apply, not anything written here. If you want a limit, set it in that account before you deposit.
Habits
- Decide the amount before starting. A figure chosen while calm holds up better than one chosen in the middle of a losing run.
- Treat it as spent. If the money is already gone in your mind, a loss will not feel like a debt you need to win back.
- Never chase a loss. Raising your stakes to recover money usually makes the loss bigger, faster.
- Keep borrowed money out of it. Credit adds repayments and pressure to every losing session.
- Take breaks. Stepping away interrupts the momentum that makes the time and money slip by unnoticed.
- Involve someone else early. When gambling stops being entertainment, another person can see what is hard to admit alone.
Age
The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout this site, including on the front page. Anyone under eighteen should not follow the operator links.