Playing Safe at Online Poker Sites

19:38 24 February 2021

As many people now find themselves being forced to stay at home for months on end and only venture outside when they need to and have a legal excuse to go outdoors, many people are now turning to the internet to allow their lives to continue as normal, or as near to normal as possible.

 

Take for example poker players, there was a time when they would actively make a point of visiting land based poker rooms to play their favourite cash ring games or would make a date in their diary for a major poker tournament held anywhere in the world and would attend those events in the hope of winning big.

 

Those times have of course changed, and many people are now choosing to play poker online from the relative safety and comfort of their own home, and an increasing number of poker players are now using their mobile devices to play poker and enter poker tournaments too.

 

The UK Gambling Commission are aware though that due to that simple fact, there is always the risk of some people getting caried away and spending a lot of money playing poker in those two environments and have introduced new rules on how they regulate such sites and apps.

 

Therefore, the next time you log into any UK licensed poker site or poker app you will be urged to set yourself a deposit limit, a time limit and also a loss limit, and by making use of those responsible gambling settings you can reduce the risk of you losing too much money when playing.

 

Do You Have a Gambling Problem?

 

It can be an addition with some devasting consequences, however if you have finally come to the conclusion that you do have problems with gambling and want to get them sorted out and give up gambling with some help and support that is exactly what you are going to be able to do.

 

It may not be an easy thing to do, but once you make that commitment to give up gambling in any shape or form and then reach out for help and support that help and support will be forthcoming and very quickly too.

 

There are many such organisations out there that can and quickly offer you some practical help and advice to give up gambling and some organisations additionally offer a very hand way to stop gambling quickly from lots of gambling sites.

 

Take for example the service that is offered by GamStop, they operate a UK wide self-exclusion register that anybody with a gambling problem is invited to sign up to and join and by doing so your accounts at each and every single UK licensed gambling site will be closed down and you will also be banned from opening a new account at a later day at any of those sites too.

 

Therefore, I would suggest you sign up to GamStop sooner rather than later to help remove the temptation to gamble.

 

Using a Gambling Site Blocker

 

You really are going to be amazed at just how much help and support is always going to be on offer to you when you take the bold initial step of reaching out for such help with any gambling problems you may be experiencing.

 

But it is of course true to say that you are going to have to do a number of things yourself to ensure the temptation to gamble is removed form you complete or at the very least as removed from you as you can make it.

 

With that in mind I would also suggest sooner rather than later you look into getting a gambling website blocker installed on each device that you use to go online with, there are a number of different ones available, but they all do the same thing.

 

By installing one on each device that you do connect to the internet by, you are simply going to find that when you open any web browser on those devices any websites that are gambling related such as poker sites not on GamStop are going to be blocked, and therefore you will not be able to visit those websites at any time on your devices.

 

That one simple measure with then ensure you cannot gamble on your smart phone, or laptop or computer as long as you do have such a tool installed upon them, so that is why I always advise everyone who wants to give up gambling to get a blocker installed on each of their devices and quickly too.