You decide how gambling fits into your life, and the habits below make it easier to keep it entertainment rather than a cost you did not plan for. Gambling on any site linked from here is for adults aged eighteen and over only. That restriction appears throughout this site, including on the front page.
Habits
- Decide the amount before you start. A figure chosen calmly, before the first bet, is more reliable than one chosen in the middle of a session, when wins and losses distort your judgement.
- Treat that amount as already spent. If you think of it as the price of an evening's entertainment, a loss feels like what you paid. You will not need to win it back, and the pressure to keep playing drops.
- Never chase a loss. Each bet is independent, so a run of losses does not make a win any more likely. Raising stakes to recover money usually turns a small loss into a larger one.
- Keep gambling out of borrowed money. Credit, loans or money set aside for bills add a debt to every loss. A debt lasts long after the session ends and makes it tempting to chase.
- Take breaks. Time passes quickly during play. Stepping away regularly lets you check how long you have played and how much you have spent, without the momentum of the game deciding for you.
- Involve someone else early. If gambling stops feeling like entertainment, talk to someone you trust before it becomes a crisis. It is easier to change a habit when someone else knows about it.
Any deposit cap, loss cap, reality check, cooling-off period or self-exclusion is something you set up inside your own 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.
Help
Every page of this site, including this one, carries links to six independent gambling-help organisations:
- BeGambleAware
- Gamble Aware
- Gambling Therapy
- G GamCare Gambling Support: Starts Here
- GAM STOP
- NCPG
These are the only outbound links on the whole 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.
| On this site | At the destination |
|---|---|
| No gambling takes place | Gambling takes place there |
| Nobody's age is verified | Any age check happens there |
| No account exists | Spending and time controls are arranged in your account there |
No advertising or behavioural profiling network is present on these pages. Nothing here is targeted at you because of how you have gambled.
If you notice that you are hiding your play, betting more to feel the same excitement, or worrying about money you have lost, use the links above to reach an independent source of help. Tell someone close to you as well.