This page sets out practical habits for keeping gambling under control and explains what this site can and cannot do for someone who wants to cut back or stop. Everything here is for adults: the eighteen-and-over restriction applies across this site, including the front page.
Know What This Site Cannot Do for You
This site only publishes information. Everything you can do with money happens after you leave it. Each operator link redirects to a third party, and from that moment the destination's rules, checks and account controls apply, not anything written here.
If you want to restrict your play, arrange that inside your own account at the destination. Nothing on this site can pause, limit or block your gambling elsewhere.
Reach Independent Help Directly
Every page of this site, this one included, carries links to three independent gambling-help organisations: GambleAware NSW, Gambling Help Online and Responsible Gambling. Use the links on this page to reach them.
These are the only non-commercial outbound links on the site. Unlike the operator links, they carry no sponsored marking, are set to nofollow and open in a separate tab on each organisation's own website. This site receives nothing when you follow them.
Expect Nothing Here to Target You
Nothing here is aimed at a reader who has shown risky behaviour, so any pressure you feel to keep playing is worth noticing on its own.
Set Your Limits Before You Start
Decide the amount before you begin and treat it as already spent. A figure chosen calmly beforehand is far more reliable than one chosen mid-session, when wins and losses distort your judgement.
Never chase a loss. Each bet stands alone, so raising stakes to win money back usually deepens the hole rather than filling it. Keep gambling well away from borrowed money too, because debt turns a night's entertainment into a repayment that lasts for months.
Step Away and Bring Someone In
Take regular breaks. Time away resets your sense of how long you've played and how much has gone, which is easy to lose track of on a screen.
When gambling stops feeling like entertainment, involve someone else early. A partner, mate or one of the organisations above can spot patterns you might explain away, and talking sooner usually means smaller problems to untangle.