Decide what you are willing to spend before you follow any link on this site, and treat that amount as gone the moment you commit it. Deciding in advance matters because judgment during play shifts with wins and losses, and a figure fixed beforehand is easier to hold to than one worked out in the moment.
Setting a limit: before playing
Choose a fixed sum and a fixed period of time before you start, and stop when either runs out. Never use money that is borrowed or set aside for bills, because gambling losses on top of existing debt compound a problem instead of staying contained.
If a loss happens, do not chase it by raising the next stake to recover it. Chasing losses is a practical trap because it turns one loss into a series of larger decisions made under pressure rather than by plan. Taking a break, even a short one, gives you a chance to check whether you are still playing for entertainment or for something else.
Account controls: elsewhere entirely
Tools such as deposit caps, loss caps, reality checks, cooling-off periods and self-exclusion are set up inside an account at the destination you reach after following an operator link. This site has no account, no form and no server-side application behind it, so nothing published here can switch on such a control, check its status or enforce it. If you want any of those controls, they are arranged at the destination, not here.
In the same way, nobody's age is verified on this site and no gambling takes place on it; any such check happens once you reach the destination. This site also carries no advertising or behavioural profiling network, so nothing here is targeted at a reader based on prior behaviour. The eighteen-and-over restriction is stated throughout this site, including on the front page, but the site itself has no way to confirm it.
Getting help: independent organisations
Every page of this site, including this one, carries links to three independent gambling-help organisations: GambleAware NSW, Gambling Help Online, and Responsible Gambling. These are the only outbound links on the site that carry no sponsored marking; they are set to nofollow and open in a separate tab on the organisations' own websites, and this site receives nothing when a reader follows them.
Involving someone else early, before gambling stops feeling like entertainment, is worth doing precisely because an outside view catches what is hard to see from inside a losing run. The links to those three organisations sit on every page for that reason.