This page sets out practical habits for keeping gambling under control. It also explains what this site can and cannot do for a reader who wants to cut back or stop.
Age
Gambling is for adults only. The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout this site, including on the front page.
- Nobody's age is verified on this site, and no gambling takes place on it.
- Any age check happens at the destination you reach after leaving.
Habits
Each of these habits works because it removes a decision you would otherwise make in the moment, when you are least able to make it calmly.
- Decide the amount before starting. A figure chosen in advance is not shaped by a winning or losing streak.
- Treat it as spent. If the money is already written off, a loss stings less and is less likely to push you into the next bet.
- Never chase a loss. Bigger bets placed to win money back usually deepen the hole faster.
- Keep gambling out of borrowed money. Borrowed stakes turn a lost evening into debt that lasts long after the session ends.
- Take breaks. Stepping away interrupts the momentum and lets you check whether you are still enjoying it.
- Involve someone else early. When it stops being entertainment, another person can see patterns you may not want to see yourself.
Controls
Any cap, reality check, break or exclusion you want is something you arrange 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 setting on, check it or enforce it.
- Each operator link redirects to a third party.
- From that moment, the destination's rules, checks and account controls apply, not anything published here.
Targeting
These pages contain no advertising or behavioural profiling network.
- Nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour.
Help
This page carries links to six independent gambling-help organisations. The same set of links appears on every page of this site.
- BeGambleAware
- Gamble Aware
- Gambling Therapy
- G GamCare Gambling Support: Starts Here
- GamCare
- GAM STOP
Links
These help links 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 you follow them.