Decide your limits before you follow any link
The most useful step happens before money is involved: work out what you can afford to lose and treat that amount as already spent. This matters because decisions made in advance, away from the moment of play, are steadier than decisions made while chasing a result.
- Set an amount and a time limit before you start, not once you are already playing.
- Treat what you have committed as gone, so the outcome of any single bet cannot disappoint you.
- Never chase a loss with a bigger stake — the urge to recover money quickly is exactly how losses grow.
- Keep gambling away from borrowed money or funds earmarked for bills, so a losing session cannot spread into the rest of your life.
- Take breaks during play and stop for the day once you planned to; a pause is what stops a session drifting past the point it stopped being fun.
- Involve someone else — a partner, friend or one of the organisations below — as soon as gambling stops feeling like entertainment, rather than waiting for a crisis.
Know what this site can and cannot do for you
This site is a set of static pages. It carries no account, no login and no form, so there is nothing here that can set a deposit cap, a loss cap, a reality check, a cooling-off period or self-exclusion, and nothing here checks or enforces any of those. Controls like that only exist inside an account at whichever destination you reach after following an operator link, and they are arranged there, under that destination's own rules — not here. In the same way, nobody's age is checked on this site; the eighteen-and-over restriction is stated throughout, including on the front page, but any actual verification happens once you leave, at the destination. This site also carries no advertising or behavioural profiling network, so nothing on it is targeted at you based on how you have played elsewhere.
- Every page, including this one, links to three independent sources of help: BeGambleAware, Gambling Therapy and GamCare.
- Those links are the only outbound links on the site that are not commercial. They carry no sponsored marking, are set to nofollow, and open in a separate tab on the organisation's own site. This site receives nothing when you follow one.
- Once you follow any operator link, you leave this site; from that point the destination's own checks and account controls apply, not anything published here.