Help Links: What Holds
Every page of this site, this one included, carries links to five independent gambling-help organisations. Before those links, here is what this site cannot do.
- The organisations linked from this page are: BeGambleAware, Gamble Aware, Gambling Therapy, G GamCare Gambling Support: Starts Here, NCPG. Each is an independent source of help.
- These are the only non-commercial outbound links on the whole site. 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 a reader follows them.
- The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout this build, including on the front page.
- Spending caps, loss caps, reality checks, cooling-off periods and self-exclusion are settings a reader arranges inside an account at the destination. This build has no account, no form and no server-side application, so nothing published here can switch one on, check one or enforce one.
- Nobody's age is verified here, and no gambling takes place on this site. Any check of that kind happens at the destination.
- No advertising or behavioural profiling network is present in these pages. Nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour.
Money Habits: Practical Steps
A few habits keep the cost of gambling predictable. Each one has a practical reason behind it.
- Decide the amount before starting. A number chosen calmly beforehand is more reliable than one chosen mid-session, when wins and losses distort judgement.
- Treat that amount as already spent. If you expect nothing back, a loss stays within what you planned and a win is a bonus.
- Never chase a loss. Staking more to recover money tends to multiply the original loss, because the odds do not change in your favour.
- Keep borrowed money out of it. Credit adds repayments and interest to any loss, so a bad night can turn into debt that lasts months.
Time Limits: Staying Aware
Losing track of time usually comes before losing track of money.
- Take regular breaks. Stepping away interrupts the momentum of play and gives you a moment to check whether you are still enjoying it.
- Set an end time before you begin. As with a budget, a stopping point you chose in advance is easier to keep than one you choose mid-session.
Getting Support: Acting Early
When gambling stops feeling like entertainment, involve someone else sooner rather than later.
- Tell a person you trust. Saying it out loud makes the problem harder to hide, from them and from yourself.
- Use the links to the independent organisations listed above, which appear on this page.
- If you want limits or a break, arrange them inside your account at the operator you use.