Before entering a casino
- Choose a fixed entertainment budget you can comfortably lose.
- Set a leaving time and arrange your journey home.
- Do not borrow money or use essential household funds.
- Avoid gambling when upset, under pressure or impaired.
- Never chase losses; another bet does not recover the last one.
Warning signs
Pause if you are hiding gambling, spending longer or more than planned, chasing losses, borrowing, missing responsibilities, or feeling anxious when you cannot gamble. Harm can begin before a crisis.
Take a break
Leave the venue, contact someone you trust, block access to money where appropriate and seek confidential support.
Land-based self-exclusion
SENSE is the relevant national scheme for participating land-based casinos. GAMSTOP concerns online gambling and is not a replacement for venue self-exclusion.
A simple safer-stay plan
- Write down the maximum spend.
- Carry only the payment method needed.
- Schedule non-gambling parts of the trip.
- Check in with a travel companion.
- Leave when the planned time or spend is reached.