Gambling control. Straight answers.
B4GAMBLE (Before Gamble) is a free 10-step programme that helps adults keep online gambling under control without having to quit. It is not a casino, takes no deposits and blocks nothing. If gambling already hurts your money, your sleep or your relationships, a self-exclusion and a helpline are the right first step.
The pages below answer what people ask before they decide: how control without quitting works, which tool fits which situation, and how B4GAMBLE earns its money.
Pick your question
- How can I keep my gambling under control without quitting?Three rules you set before you play, and the ten steps that build them.
- Which gambling control tool fits you?Self-exclusion, blocking software, a bank block, limits, helplines and B4GAMBLE, side by side.
- Can you trust B4GAMBLE if it earns money from casinos?How it earns, what it does not do, when casino pages appear and what stays private.
- My self-exclusion is ending. What then?Ten steps before you lift GAMSTOP, or beside a Spelpaus or ROFUS pause, with the date your minimum period ends.
- What happens in the ten steps?Every step, what it asks of you and what you keep.
- I want to stop or pause nowSelf-exclusion and free, confidential support, with no casino links.
When it already hurts
If you want to stop, or a pause is what you need now, these services do not depend on B4GAMBLE:
- GAMSTOPFree self-exclusion from gambling websites and apps licensed in Great Britain.
- National Gambling Helpline – 0808 8020 133Free, 24 hours a day, run by GamCare. In Wales: 0808 2819 265.
- Sweden: Spelpaus.se · Stödlinjen 020-81 91 00
- Denmark: ROFUS · StopSpillet 70 22 28 25
Start with step 1
Free and private. You need no account to begin; you create one only when you want to save your Starting Point and carry on.
Start step 1 nowQuestions people ask
- What is B4GAMBLE?
- B4GAMBLE (Before Gamble) is a free 10-step programme that helps adults keep online gambling under control without having to quit. It also compares licensed casinos, and it says openly that it earns commission from them.
- Is B4GAMBLE a way to stop gambling?
- Not on its own: it blocks nothing. If you want to stop, a national self-exclusion such as GAMSTOP, Spelpaus or ROFUS stops licensed sites from letting you play, and a helpline can help you with the next step.
- Does B4GAMBLE want people to keep gambling?
- No. It helps adults who have decided to play keep to rules they set themselves, and deciding to stop or to pause is just as good an outcome. The Programme never asks anyone to deposit, claim a bonus or play.
- What does it cost?
- Nothing. The Programme, the guides and these pages are free.