Support
Every page of this site, this one included, carries links to five independent gambling-help organisations: BeGambleAware, Gamble Aware, Gambling Therapy, G GamCare Gambling Support: Starts Here, and NCPG. Each is an independent source of help, and the links to them appear on this page alongside the rest of the site's content.
These are the only outbound links on the site that are not commercial. Unlike the operator links, they carry no sponsored marking, they are set to nofollow, and they open in a separate tab on the organisations' own websites. This site receives nothing when you follow one.
Habits
Decide on an amount before you start and treat it as already spent. A figure set in advance is made with a clear head, while a figure set mid-session is shaped by whatever just happened.
Never chase a loss. Trying to win money back usually means staking more under pressure, which tends to deepen the loss.
Keep gambling away from borrowed money, because a loss then becomes a debt that outlasts the session. Take regular breaks, since stepping away is often the moment you notice how much time and money have passed.
If gambling stops feeling like entertainment, involve someone else early. Another person can see patterns that are hard to judge from the inside.
Age
The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout this site, including on the front page. Caps on deposits or losses, reality checks, cooling-off periods and self-exclusion are things you arrange inside an account at the destination. This site has no account, form or server-side application, so nothing published here can switch on, check or enforce such a control. Nobody's age is verified here, no gambling takes place here, and no advertising or behavioural profiling network runs in these pages, so nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour.