You should be able to treat gambling as paid entertainment and walk away while it still feels that way. This page sets out practical habits that help, the few facts this site can stand behind, and the limits of what a set of information pages can do for you.
Help organisations are linked on every page
Every page of this site, this one included, carries links to three independent gambling-help organisations: GambleAware NSW, Gambling Help Online and Responsible Gambling. On this page they sit alongside these sections, and the same links appear across the rest of the site. Each is an independent source of help.
These are the only outbound links here that are not commercial. 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 you follow them. The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout the site, including on the front page.
Good habits make the limits for you
- Decide the amount before you start. A figure set with a clear head is harder to stretch than one you settle on mid-session, when wins and losses change how money feels.
- Treat that amount as already spent. If you expect nothing back, a loss doesn't feel like a debt you need to recover.
- Never chase a loss. Each bet is independent, so raising stakes to win money back usually just makes the loss bigger, and faster.
- Keep gambling out of borrowed money. Credit adds interest and repayments to losses that would otherwise end when the session ends.
- Take breaks. Stepping away interrupts the momentum of fast play and gives you a moment to check whether you're still enjoying it.
- Involve someone else early. Once it stops being entertainment, a person you trust can see patterns that are hard to notice from the inside.
Nothing here is aimed at your behaviour
No advertising or behavioural profiling network is present in these pages. Nothing on this site is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour.
Controls to stop sit with the destination
This site can't hold your money, limit your spending or close an account for you. Everything you can do with money happens after you leave this site. Each operator link redirects to a third party. From that moment, the destination's rules, checks and account controls apply, not anything published here. If you want limits, breaks or exclusion, set them up yourself inside your account at that destination. For outside support, use the links to the three organisations named above.