Tips for Safer Gambling

A Guide to help you to prevent losing control in the casinos or online poker rooms.

Time Limits:
Before you start gambling you should decide on a time to stop gambling and set your watch or cell phone to alert you at that time. When that time comes no matter if you are winning or losing will stop gambling and at least for a few hours leave the casino or log off the online casino and do some non gambling activity, even if it is just eat shower and take a nap. This will help stop you from loosing track of time and eventually all your money as well.

Cut Off Point:
To help make sure you do not give in to the gambling gods and fork over all your savings to the casino I recommend setting a cut off point. This means that once you hit you set amount you push yourself away from the table and leave the casino. It does not matter if you go to the bar, have some food or take a shower and a nap. Just getting out of the casino will help you regain your attachment to reality. Then after an hour or so you can go back to the casino and start over in a better state of mind then when you walked away before.

Casino Buddies:
This does not mean that you should gamble together, this means that you always make sure to only log into an online casino or visit a casino with a friend and you both agree to look out for the other one. Once one of you hit a predetermined loss limit or time limit you are responsible to get the other away from the casino floor. Loosing control in the casino and having no one to get you out of there is a sure way to lose everything you have and get yourself into thousands of dollars in debt.

Internet Cafe:
The good thing about gambling in an online casino at an internet café terminal is that you have to pay by the hour to play on the computer so you can play for an hour or 2 then when your time is up the computer will log you off and you are done gambling. Another good thing about an internet café is that you can not get overly comfortable there. At home you can continue to play and play but in a café you will eventually get tired of sitting there and will leave.

Mobile Gambling:
If you are going to be doing your gambling on your phone I recommend using a prepaid phone. This will act like the time limit at the online casino. When the time is up on your phone you will not be allowed to play any more until you purchase more time.

The goal is to try and find a way to limit your time gambling so that you can stop your gambling if you start to lose all your money and keep yourself in control at all times. If more people used these methods there would be less cases of gambling addiction.