Responsible Gaming

You will find help organisations linked on this page and on every other page of this site, and a short account of what this site can and cannot do for you if gambling stops being enjoyable. Read this alongside the practical points below before you follow any operator link.

Getting help: independent sources

Three independent gambling-help organisations are linked from this page, and from every other page on this site: begambleaware.org, gamblingtherapy.org and gamcare.org.uk. These 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 the organisations' own websites. This site receives nothing when a reader follows one of them. Beyond being independent sources of help, nothing further is described about them here.

What this site cannot switch on for you

Controls such as deposit caps, loss caps, reality checks, cooling-off periods and self-exclusion are things a reader arranges inside an account at an operator's own site. 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 its status, or enforce it. If you want any of them in place, they have to be set up at the destination you land on after following an operator link, not here. Each of the ten operator listings on this site ends with the same line, asking you to check availability and the current terms at the destination before claiming anything, because eligibility rules and terms apply there and can change without notice. Once you leave this site through an operator link, the destination's own rules, checks and account controls take over; nothing published here follows you there.

In the same way, nobody's age is verified on this site, and no gambling takes place on it. Any age check happens at the destination, not here. The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout this site, including on the front page and at the end of every operator listing, but repeating a restriction on a page is not the same as checking it: this site has no login and no form to check anything against. No advertising or behavioural profiling network runs on these pages either, so nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown signs of risky play; the page you are reading is the same for every visitor.

Deciding your limit before you start

Set the amount you are willing to lose before you begin, and treat it as already spent the moment you commit to it. Deciding in advance takes the choice out of the moment when judgement is least reliable — partway through a losing session, when the pull to keep going is strongest.

Never chase a loss by increasing your stake to try to win it back. A loss you chase is a second decision made under worse conditions than the first one. Keep gambling money separate from money you have borrowed or money earmarked for bills: if a loss would affect something else you depend on, the amount was wrong from the start.

Take breaks during a session rather than playing in one continuous stretch. A break gives you a plain moment to check whether you are still doing this for entertainment or because you feel you have to continue. If it stops being entertainment, involve someone else early — a friend, a family member, or one of the organisations linked on this page — rather than waiting until the amounts involved have grown.

Where the two stop

This site is a set of static pages: it has no account, no login, and no server-side process running behind it. An operator's site is different — it holds your account, your deposits and whatever controls you set inside it. The table below sets out that difference plainly.