We at MyBettingSites.co.uk want everyone who uses this site to enjoy their gambling. Safer Gambling is for everyone and using these tools will help to ensure that your gambling remains a harmless leisure activity.
Deposit limits
Since 31 October 2025, every UK-licensed betting site has had to ask you to set a financial limit before you make your first deposit, and make it easy to change that limit afterwards. You are not obliged to set one, but it is one of the most effective things you can do. You can set limits daily, weekly or monthly. A request to lower your limit takes effect immediately; a request to raise it takes 24 hours.
Cool-off periods
A cool-off lets you step away from gambling entirely, from a single day up to 30 days, and six weeks with some operators. Your account reopens once the period ends. If you want something longer or permanent, use GAMSTOP instead.
Profit and loss
Shows what you have actually won or lost over a period you choose. Worth checking even if you think you know the answer – most people’s estimate is wrong.
Reality check
Gambling costs time as well as money, sometimes a lot of it. A reality check interrupts you after a period you set – 20 minutes, an hour, whatever you choose and prompts you to log out, review your activity or carry on.
Is gambling becoming a problem?
It can be hard to judge from the inside. These questions are a starting point:
- Is your gambling affecting your own or your family’s wellbeing?
- Are you betting more than you can afford to lose?
- Are you chasing losses?
- Are you prioritising gambling over other hobbies and interests?
If you answered yes to any of these, it is worth reaching out. The National Gambling Helpline is free and confidential, and you do not need to have made up your mind about anything before you call.
Get help now
National Gambling Helpline: 0808 8020 133
This helpline provides free, confidential advice 24 hours a day for anyone affected by gambling.
But maybe you don’t want to talk to someone on the phone, and that’s totally understandable. GamCare also offers free, confidential support through its online Live Chat service, available 24/7.
Three tools to help you stop gambling
These three tools can stop you from gambling today, which gives you the time and headspace to plan your recovery and get the support you need. TalkBanStop can guide you through all three.
2. Register with GAMSTOP
GAMSTOP is the national self-exclusion scheme. One registration covers every UK-licensed gambling site.
Where else to get support
- GambleAware – information, self-assessment and routes into free treatment
- GAMSTOP – the national online self-exclusion scheme
- Gambling Therapy – advice on problem gambling in multiple languages
- The UK Gambling Commission’s safer gambling advice covers how to check a business is licensed and how to use the tools above to manage your activity.
Safer gambling guides
- How to spot a person with a gambling disorder, and how to help
- Time management
- Recovering from gambling addiction: an interview with Steve Girling
- When gambling becomes a coping strategy
- Your gambling behaviour: a reflection exercise
- Understanding the brain mechanisms of problem gambling
- How do I limit my risk of experiencing negative consequences due to gambling?
This page was last reviewed on 21 October 2026 4:08 PM. Gambling is for over-18s only.
