Responsible Gaming

This page is short and it is not decoration. Everything below is written because it comes up.

The three numbers to decide first

Live cricket removes the pause that pre-match betting gives you. Whatever discipline you have needs to exist before the toss.

• What you are prepared to lose. A figure, not a feeling. When it is gone, the session is over regardless of the match situation.
• What profit would satisfy you. The one people skip, and the one that saves the most, because without it every winning position gets held until it stops being one.
• Maximum stake per bet. Flat, ideally. The panel will happily let you triple your usual size after a loss and it will not ask whether that was the plan.

Write them down. Deciding in the sixteenth over of a close chase is not deciding, it is reacting.

Warning signs worth taking seriously

• Depositing again in the same session after telling yourself you would not.
• Betting money set aside for rent, fees, bills or a family obligation.
• Borrowing to bet, from anyone, in any form.
• Hiding how much you have deposited from people close to you.
• Betting on matches you do not care about because there is nothing else on.
• Chasing a loss with a bigger stake, specifically to get back to even.
• Feeling relief rather than enjoyment when a bet wins.
• Being unable to watch cricket without having money on it.

That last one is more common than people admit and it is a real signal. If a match is boring without a bet, the bet has stopped being the entertainment and started being the point.

Practical things that actually work

Advice that survives contact with a real evening of cricket:

• Withdraw profit regularly. Money sitting in a T20 Exchange balance gets rebet. Money in your bank does not. Take it out.
• Keep stakes flat. No doubling after a loss, no tripling after a win. The people still betting sensibly in year three all do this.
• Stay off fancy markets when tilted. They move fastest and they are where a bad night becomes a worse one in twenty minutes.
• Do not bet while half watching. On a train, in a queue, during a family function. Bad decisions cluster there.
• Check your statement weekly. Deposits total up quietly. Seeing the real number monthly is uncomfortable and useful.
• Take scheduled breaks. A week off between series. If that feels difficult, that is information.

Ask us to hold your account if you want a break. We will do it, and we will not try to talk you out of it or send you offers while it is paused.

Things that are not true

Beliefs that cost people money, stated plainly.

You are not due a win. Markets have no memory. Six losses in a row does not make the seventh more likely to land.

Nobody can guarantee a result. Anyone selling fixed-match information or guaranteed tips is taking your money with a story attached. We do not sell them and we would tell you to avoid anyone who does.

A bigger deposit does not improve your odds. Exchange prices come from matched money and are identical for every account, whatever the balance.

You cannot win it back tonight. The chase is the mechanism by which a manageable loss becomes an unmanageable one. It is the single most expensive idea in betting.

Getting help

If betting has stopped being a choice, talking to someone helps more than reading a page like this one.

• Tele-MANAS — India's national mental health helpline, free and available 24x7 in multiple languages: 14416.
• Gamblers Anonymous India runs meetings in several cities and online.
• Your own doctor is a reasonable starting point and will have heard it before.
• Bank-level blocks on gambling transactions are available from some Indian banks — ask yours.

Tell someone you trust as well. Keeping it private is what allows it to grow, and the conversation is almost always less bad than the anticipation of it.

18+ only. Online betting rules differ between Indian states and change over time. Checking what applies where you live is your responsibility.