Player safeguards
Before any exposure, protect the basics
Confirm that essential costs and savings are separated, credit and borrowed funds are unavailable, and a time and loss ceiling is written down. Avoid gambling when distressed, intoxicated, sleep-deprived or trying to solve a financial problem. When the activity is unaffordable or the boundary feels difficult to keep, the appropriate ceiling is zero.
- ASeparate essentials
- BNo borrowing
- CAvoid impaired decisions
Player safeguards
During a session, treat emotion as a stop signal
Do not increase limits, chase a loss, switch products to recover or interpret near misses as progress. Use reality checks and leave when the pre-set time or money boundary arrives. A win is not evidence that the next decision has better odds, and a loss is not something the next round owes back.
- ANo limit increases
- BNo chasing
- CStop at the first boundary
Player safeguards
Afterwards, review impact rather than outcome alone
Ask whether the activity affected sleep, mood, work, relationships or planned spending. Repeated regret or broken limits calls for stronger barriers, not a more detailed strategy. Save support contacts, enable bank or device blocks and speak with Gambling Help Online before the pattern becomes harder to interrupt.
- AReview wider impact
- BEscalate barriers
- CContact support early