Before You Start: Set A Number
Decide the amount you are willing to spend before you open any operator link, and treat that amount as already spent the moment you commit it. Deciding in advance removes the pressure of making a financial decision in the middle of play, when a run of losses or a near win can distort judgement. Once the amount is gone, stop. Chasing a loss by increasing the next stake to recover an earlier one tends to compound the loss rather than fix it, because it replaces a decided limit with a reaction to the last result.
Keep the money you gamble with separate from money you need for rent, bills or anything borrowed. Gambling with borrowed money or with funds earmarked for something else turns an entertainment cost into a debt problem, which is a different and harder thing to recover from. Take breaks during a session rather than playing continuously: a pause gives you a chance to check whether you are still enjoying it or simply continuing out of momentum. If gambling stops being entertainment and starts feeling like an obligation, involve someone else early, a friend, family member or one of the independent organisations listed below, rather than waiting until the situation feels harder to raise.
Help Organisations: Independent Links
Every page of this site, including this one, links to three independent gambling-help organisations: gamblinghelpline.co.nz, gamblingtherapy.org and pgf.nz. 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 organisation's own website. This site receives nothing when a reader follows one of them.
- gamblinghelpline.co.nz — an independent source of help
- gamblingtherapy.org — an independent source of help
- pgf.nz — an independent source of help
Age Restriction And Operator Listings
The eighteen-and-over restriction is repeated throughout this site, including on the front page and at the end of every operator listing. Each of the ten operator listings closes with the same line: check availability and the current terms at the destination before claiming anything, because eligibility rules and terms apply there and can change without notice. Anything a reader can actually do with money happens after leaving this site. Each operator link redirects to a third party, and from that point on, the destination's own rules, checks and account controls apply, not anything published here.
What This Site Cannot Do: Confirmed Limits
Controls such as deposit caps, loss caps, reality checks, cooling-off periods or self-exclusion belong to an account held with an operator. This site has no account, no form and no server-side application behind it, so nothing published here can switch such a control on, check its status or enforce it. If you want any of those controls, they need to be set up inside an account at the destination you have gone to.
Nobody's age is verified on this site and no gambling takes place on it. Any age check happens at the destination after you leave here. This site also carries no advertising or behavioural profiling network, so nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour: the pages you see are the same static pages any visitor sees.