This page sets out practical advice for gambling responsibly and explains plainly what this site does and does not do to support that. It covers the help links carried on every page, the age restriction repeated throughout the build, and the limits of a site made of static pages with no accounts.
Perspective
Deciding an amount before starting, and treating it as already spent, keeps a session of play separate from money needed elsewhere. This matters because gambling outcomes are unpredictable in the moment, but a spending decision made in advance is not.
- Set the amount before you start, not while you are playing, so the decision is not influenced by a win or a loss in progress.
- Treat that amount as spent the moment you commit it, so a loss is simply the expected outcome rather than something to recover.
- Never chase a loss by increasing a stake to win back what went before: this is how a planned amount turns into an unplanned one.
- Keep gambling away from borrowed money or funds earmarked for bills, since a loss there creates a second problem beyond the loss itself.
- Take breaks during a session; stepping away for even a short time interrupts the momentum that leads to overspending.
- Involve someone else — a partner, friend or family member — as soon as gambling stops feeling like entertainment, rather than waiting until it becomes a bigger problem.
Help
Every page of this site, including this one, carries links to three independent gambling-help organisations: gamblinghelpline.co.nz, gamblingtherapy.org and pgf.nz. These are the only outbound links on the whole site that are not commercial.
- Unlike the operator links elsewhere on this site, these three links carry no sponsored marking.
- They are set to nofollow and open in a separate tab, taking a reader directly to the organisation's own website.
- This site receives nothing when a reader follows one of these links.
Age
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.
- Everything a reader can actually do with money happens after leaving this site. Each operator link redirects to a third party, and from that point the destination's rules, checks and account controls apply — not anything published here.
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 one of those controls on, check its status or enforce it.
- Nobody's age is verified on this site, and no gambling takes place on it. Any check of that kind happens at the destination a reader is redirected to.
- No advertising or behavioural profiling network runs on these pages, so nothing here is targeted at a reader who has shown risky behaviour.
- If gambling has stopped being entertainment, the controls that can actually help — limits, breaks in play, or stepping away entirely — are set up inside an account at the operator's own site, not here.