This page explains how to keep gambling in proportion, where independent help can be found, and what a static information site like this one can and cannot do for someone who wants to cut back or stop.
Spending Habits: Practical Advice
Each habit below works for a specific reason. Understanding the reason makes it easier to keep the habit when a session is going badly.
- Decide the amount before starting. A limit set in a calm moment is more reliable than one set in the middle of a game, when wins and losses distort judgement.
- Treat that amount as already spent. If you think of the money as the cost of entertainment, a loss feels like the expected price rather than a debt you need to recover.
- Never chase a loss. Raising stakes to win money back increases the amount at risk without changing the odds of any single outcome, so losses usually grow faster.
- Keep gambling out of borrowed money. Credit, loans and money set aside for bills turn a lost stake into a lasting obligation that outlives the session.
- Take breaks. Stepping away interrupts the rhythm of play and gives you a moment to check whether you are still within the amount you chose.
- Involve someone else early. When gambling stops feeling like entertainment, telling a trusted person brings in an outside view before the problem becomes harder to talk about.
Independent Help: Five Organisations
Every page of this site, this one included, carries links to five independent gambling-help organisations. You can find them in the set of help links that appears across the site.
- BeGambleAware
- Gamble Aware
- Gambling Therapy
- G GamCare Gambling Support: Starts Here
- 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.
- They open in a separate tab on each organisation's own website.
- This site receives nothing when a reader follows them.
Age Restriction: Adults Only
Gambling content on this site is intended only for people aged eighteen and over. This restriction is repeated throughout the site, including on the front page.
- This site does not verify anyone's age.
- No gambling takes place here. Any age check happens at the destination you choose to visit.
Site Limits: Plain Statement
This site is a set of static files. It has no account, no form and no server-side application. That means it cannot act on a reader's behalf.
- Deposit caps, loss caps, reality checks, cooling-off periods and self-exclusion are settings you arrange inside your own account at the destination. Nothing published here can switch one on, check one or enforce one.
- These pages contain no advertising or behavioural profiling network, so nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour.
- If you want to stop, the practical steps are to arrange controls in your account at the destination and to contact one of the independent organisations listed above.