Which fourteen operators are meant here at all, with the licence number and the place it was found beside each one, is set out on the operator page.
The list itself, with a licence number and a date behind each name, sits on the front page: fourteen operators, read in four places.
Gambling costs money on average. That is not a warning, it is the construction: the house edge bites on every stake, and over many stakes the outcome is predictable even though a single evening is not. What the arithmetic looks like. How deeply a given operator buries these settings is a point of its own among the new casinos.
The four settings
| Deposit limit | per day, week or month — the most effective of the four |
|---|---|
| Loss limit | caps the net loss over the period |
| Session length | ends the session after a time you set |
| Break or self-exclusion | from 24 hours to open-ended |
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They sit in the account settings, usually under “responsible play” or “limits”, and they are two clicks away. Tightening takes effect immediately, loosening only after a waiting period — that asymmetry is deliberate.
The right moment is before the first stake
At sign-up a limit is a sober piece of arithmetic. In the middle of a session it is an argument with yourself, and that one is lost more often. How to set them.
Five sentences worth stopping at
- “I'll win that back in a minute.” — Past rounds do not influence future ones.
- “Just one more deposit.” — The deposit limit answers that sentence in advance.
- “The balance doesn't count.” — It does. It is money until it has been paid out.
- “I'm playing to make something up.” — The point at which play stops being a pastime.
- “Nobody knows about it.” — The point at which a conversation is overdue.
A break and a self-exclusion
A twenty-four hour break costs nothing and ends any session that is getting away from you. A self-exclusion running over months usually cannot be lifted before it expires — that is its purpose. The balance is paid out beforehand. The three steps.
A register that covers more than one account
Beyond the single account there is a central self-exclusion register in Germany. What it holds, how to ask what is recorded about you and how a request to lift an entry works is set out on a page of its own. OASIS, plainly explained.
Where help is
Advice is free, confidential and anonymous if you want it to be. It is there for family members too. BZgA – Spielsucht-Hilfe carries information, a self-test and ways to reach a counselling service.