Reliable Ground: What Holds
A few facts about this site can be relied on. Everything else depends on the site you choose to visit, and this page can't speak for those sites.
- The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout this site, including on the front page.
- No advertising or behavioural profiling network runs on these pages. Nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour.
- This site can't stop you from gambling or limit your spending. Each operator link redirects to a third party. From that moment, the destination's rules, checks and account controls apply, not anything published here.
- Any spending or time controls you want must be set up by you, inside your own account at the destination.
Independent Help: Three Organisations
Every page of this site, this one included, carries links to three independent sources of help with gambling:
- GambleAware NSW
- Gambling Help Online
- Responsible Gambling
These are the only outbound links on the site that aren't commercial. Unlike the operator links, they carry no sponsored marking. They are set to nofollow and open in a separate tab on each organisation's own website. This site receives nothing when you follow them.
Practical Habits: Before Playing
Each habit below has a practical reason behind it.
- Decide the amount before you start. A figure set with a clear head is easier to keep than one you make up mid-session, when wins and losses distort your judgement.
- Treat that money as already spent. If you expect it back, every loss feels like a debt you need to recover.
- Never chase a loss. Each bet is independent, so raising stakes to win money back only increases what you stand to lose.
- Keep borrowed money out of it. Credit and loans add repayments and interest to losses that were never yours to risk.
- Take regular breaks. Time away interrupts the momentum that makes long sessions and bigger bets feel normal.
Changing Direction: Early Steps
If gambling has stopped being entertainment, act sooner rather than later.
- Tell someone you trust early. Another person can notice patterns you might miss or explain away.
- Use the controls in your account at the destination to limit your spending or time, or to stop playing there.
- Contact one of the three organisations named above, using the links on this page.