You decide whether gambling stays a pastime. This page sets out practical habits that help keep it that way, names the independent organisations linked from this site, and explains what this site can and cannot do for you.
Six independent organisations are linked here
Every page of this site, this one included, carries links to six independent gambling-help organisations. You can reach them from any page you read here.
- BeGambleAware
- Gamble Aware
- Gambling Therapy
- G GamCare Gambling Support: Starts Here
- GAM STOP
- NCPG
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 each organisation's own website. This site receives nothing when you follow them.
Good habits keep the stakes under your control
Each habit below has a practical reason behind it.
- Decide the amount before you start. A figure set while calm is more reliable than one chosen mid-session, when wins and losses distort judgement.
- Treat that money as already spent. If you expect nothing back, a loss costs exactly what you planned, and a win is a bonus rather than a target.
- Never chase a loss. Raising stakes to recover money increases the amount at risk without changing the odds, so losses often grow faster.
- Keep gambling out of borrowed money. Credit adds repayments and interest to any loss, turning entertainment spending into debt.
- Take breaks. Stepping away interrupts the momentum of play and gives you a moment to check time and spending honestly.
- Involve someone else early. When gambling stops feeling like entertainment, a trusted person or one of the organisations above can help before problems deepen.
Account controls are set up at the destination
Deposit caps, loss caps, reality checks, cooling-off periods and self-exclusion belong to an account you hold elsewhere. You arrange any of them inside that account at the destination.
- Set your caps before your first session, not after a bad one.
- Check the account settings yourself, because this site cannot see or confirm them.
Adults only, with checks made elsewhere
The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout this build, including on the front page.
- Nobody's age is verified on this site.
- No gambling takes place on this site.
- Any check of age happens at the destination.
This site cannot act on your behalf
This build is a set of static files. It has no account, no form and no server-side application, so nothing published here can switch on, check or enforce any control on your behalf.
- If you want to stop, the controls live in your account at the destination, and support lives with the independent organisations listed above.
- 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 use cookies and has no login or registration. It counts page views and outbound clicks only for its own traffic figures.
- A linked organisation's website, once opened, runs under that organisation's own practices, not this site's.