Responsible gambling
Gambling is for adults over 18 and can cause harm. Support in Great Britain is free and available at any hour.
Warning signs
Signals worth taking seriously: staking more than was planned, chasing a loss with a larger stake, borrowing in any form to fund a session, playing to escape stress or low mood, losing time to it, or keeping it from the people around you.
A refused credit card is itself a signal. The condition exists because gambling on borrowed money is the pattern most strongly associated with harm.
Tools that work
Deposit limits and time-outs at licensed operators, GAMSTOP self-exclusion across all Great Britain online licensees, and gambling blocks offered by most UK banks. All are free, and the bank-side block reaches permitted payment routes that the licence condition does not.
Where to get help
National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133, free and confidential, open at any hour. BeGambleAware.org and GamCare provide advice, self-assessment and treatment referrals. GAMSTOP handles online self-exclusion.
Credit and gambling
Licence condition 6.1.2 prohibits credit card payments for gambling in Great Britain. Borrowing to gamble in any other form — a cash advance, buy now pay later, an overdraft — carries the same risk the condition was written to remove, and none of those routes is closed by it.
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