Decide the amount before you click through
Set a figure in your head, or write it down, before you follow any link on this site. Treat that amount as already spent the moment you start, rather than as money you expect to bring home. Deciding in advance takes the pressure off the moment when a game is in front of you, which is the worst possible time to be doing arithmetic about what you can afford.
Watch for the moment it stops being entertainment
- Never chase a loss. Trying to win back what has gone is a decision made to fix a feeling, not a plan, and it tends to produce a bigger loss.
- Keep gambling away from borrowed money. Money that is already owed elsewhere turns a loss into a debt problem on top of a gambling one.
- Take breaks. Stepping away for a few minutes or a day breaks the momentum that keeps a session going past the point you meant to stop.
- Involve someone else early. A partner, friend or family member can see the pattern from outside long before it is obvious from inside a session.
Know what this site can and cannot do
This page, like every page on this site, carries links to three independent gambling-help organisations: GambleAware NSW, Gambling Help Online, and Responsible Gambling. Those links are the only outbound links on the site that are not commercial. They carry no sponsored marking, they are set to nofollow, and they open in a separate tab on each organisation's own website. This site receives nothing when a reader follows them.
Controls such as deposit caps, loss caps, reality checks, cooling-off periods or self-exclusion belong to an operator account. This build has no account, no form and no server-side application behind it, so nothing published here can switch one of those controls on, check it or enforce it. If you want any of them, they exist only inside an account at the destination you reach after leaving this site.
Understand where the eighteen-and-over rule applies
The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout this build, including on the front page. Nobody's age is verified on this site, and no gambling takes place on it. Any age check happens at the destination, after an operator link has redirected you there and its own rules and checks take over from anything published here.
Recognise that leaving this site changes what applies
Everything a reader can actually do with money happens after leaving this site. Each operator link redirects to a third party, and from that moment the destination's own rules, checks and account controls apply, not anything published on this page. No advertising or behavioural profiling network is present in these pages, so nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour.
Use the links on this page
The links to GambleAware NSW, Gambling Help Online, and Responsible Gambling appear on this page alongside the rest of the site's non-commercial links. They are independent sources of help, separate from this site and from any operator link, and they sit outside the commercial links to give you somewhere to go that is not selling anything.