You are the one who decides whether gambling stays a bit of entertainment. This page sets out practical habits that help keep it that way and explains what this site can and cannot do for you. Everything here is for adults: the eighteen-and-over restriction appears throughout this site, including on the front page.
Set Your Own Rules Before You Start
Limits work best when you make them while you are calm. Once a session is under way, it is much harder to judge your own decisions clearly.
- Decide the amount beforehand. A figure you choose in advance is a fixed boundary. A figure you choose in the moment tends to keep growing.
- Treat that money as already spent. If you think of it as the cost of entertainment, you will not expect it back. That stops a loss from feeling like a debt you need to recover.
- Never chase a loss. Each bet is independent of the last one. Raising your stakes to win back money usually makes the hole deeper.
- Keep borrowed money out of it. Credit and loans add interest and obligations to other people. A losing night can then turn into lasting financial harm.
- Take regular breaks. Stepping away interrupts the fast rhythm of play. It also gives you time to check your spending against your plan.
Know Where the Controls Actually Live
This site is a set of information pages. It cannot hold, block or limit your money. Each operator link redirects you to a third party. From that moment, the destination's rules, checks and account controls apply, and nothing published here applies.
- If you want to cap your spending or stop playing, set that up inside your own account at the destination.
- This site has no advertising or behavioural profiling network in its pages. That means nothing here is targeted at you based on risky behaviour. It also means this site cannot notice your behaviour or step in.
- This site does not use cookies. It counts visits only for its own traffic figures.
Bring Someone In Early
If gambling stops feeling like entertainment, tell someone sooner rather than later. Another person can spot patterns you might explain away, and talking about it early is easier than after the losses grow.
- Every page of this site, this one included, links to three independent sources of help: GambleAware NSW, Gambling Help Online and Responsible Gambling.
- These are the only non-commercial outbound links on the site. They carry no sponsored marking and are set to nofollow. They open in a separate tab on each organisation's own website.
- This site receives nothing when you follow them.