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Set a deposit limit before you start

The single most useful tool we offer is the deposit limit. Set a daily, weekly or monthly cap in the Responsible Gaming tab in your account, and the cashier physically cannot accept a deposit above that figure until the period resets.

Lowering a limit takes effect instantly. Raising a limit takes 24 hours to come into effect. That gap is deliberate and gives you a quiet moment to decide whether you really want to put more on the table.

Loss limits and session timers

Loss limits work like deposit limits but track your net losses across the period. Once you hit the cap, real-money play is paused until it resets. Bonus play continues so you don't lose unspent wager credit.

Session timers pause the game every 30 or 60 minutes for a quick reality check. The screen shows your time on, your net result for the session, and the option to keep playing or close the table.

Cool-offs and self-exclusion

A cool-off lets you take a break from 24 hours up to 6 weeks. During a cool-off, deposits and play are blocked but withdrawals still work normally and your account remains open.

Self-exclusion is more permanent. Choose a 6-month, 12-month or indefinite exclusion. During the period, the account is fully locked, marketing emails stop, and you can't reopen the account or create a new one with us.

Free, confidential Canadian support

ConnexOntario is free, confidential and open 24/7 on 1-866-531-2600 for Ontario players. Equivalent provincial services include the Responsible Gambling Council nationally, AGLC's GameSense in Alberta, and the Quebec helpline on 1-800-461-0140.

Spotting the warning signs early

Healthy play is play you can leave behind when you close the tab. Warning signs include chasing losses, hiding play from family or partners, borrowing money to deposit, lying about how much you've staked, or feeling restless when you're not gambling.

If two or three of those resonate, take it seriously. Set a deposit limit lower than your usual, or trigger a cool-off while you decide. Talking to ConnexOntario on 1-866-531-2600 is free and they don't judge.

Family and friend support

If you're worried about someone else's gambling, the same helplines support family members. You can also use our Affected Other contact form to flag concern about a player on our platform. We treat those reports confidentially and may use them to trigger a welfare check or temporary account hold.

Conversations with loved ones about gambling are hard. Helpline counsellors can walk you through how to start one without it becoming a fight.

Practical limits we recommend for new players

There's no universal right number for a deposit cap, but a useful rule of thumb is to set a weekly limit at no more than 1% of your monthly take-home pay. If you wouldn't be comfortable losing the whole amount, lower the cap until you would.

Pair the deposit cap with a session timer set to 30 minutes. Even on a great run, the timer breaks the trance and gives you a moment to choose whether to keep going.

Track your play monthly. The Account Activity tab in your Royal Vegas dashboard shows total deposits, total withdrawals and net result for any window you pick.

Building a personal play plan that lasts

A play plan that holds up over six months usually has three pieces. A weekly deposit budget you have stress-tested against a tough month at work. A short list of games you actually enjoy rather than a habit of opening whatever sits at the top of the lobby. And a non-negotiable cut-off time on evenings before a workday or a family commitment you cannot move.

Write the plan down somewhere you can see it. The Notes app on your phone is enough. Players who keep a written plan stick to deposit caps roughly twice as often as players who set the cap once and never look at it again, in our internal welfare-team data over the last three years.

Review the plan once a month. If the cap felt easy and you closed every session in profit or close to it, leave it alone. If you have maxed it out three weeks running, the cap is doing its job and the honest response is to lower the cap, not raise it.

If life circumstances change, change the plan with them. A new mortgage, a new baby, a job change or a serious illness in the family are all reasons to lower the cap proactively rather than waiting to see what happens.

Recognising harm in someone you live with

The signs in a partner, parent or adult child usually show up around money first. Bills paid late, transfers between accounts you cannot explain, fresh credit-card balances that do not match a purchase you remember, or savings that never grow even though household income is steady.

Mood patterns come next. Defensiveness about phone or screen time, sleep that slides later and later, irritability the morning after a long evening, and a tendency to disappear into a different room as soon as evenings get quiet.

If two or three of those resonate, call ConnexOntario on 1-866-531-2600. Counsellors there spend a large share of their time supporting affected family members, not gamblers themselves. The conversation is confidential and the counsellor will help you decide whether and how to raise it directly at home, what tone tends to work, and what tone almost always backfires.

Why deposit limits work better than willpower

Willpower is a finite resource and it runs out faster after a hard day at work, a difficult conversation at home, or a bad night of sleep. Deposit limits are an environmental change, which means they keep working when willpower has nothing left in the tank. That is why the limit you set on a calm Tuesday morning is the limit you will thank yourself for at 11pm on a Friday.

The 24-hour delay on raising a limit is built specifically to protect that late-Friday moment. It is the single most useful safety feature on the platform and we keep it deliberately impossible to override, even on a phone call to our most senior support staff. If the delay feels frustrating, that is the delay working exactly as intended.

Pair the cap with a session timer at 30 minutes and the chance of a session running off the rails drops sharply. Both tools are free, both take ten seconds to set, and neither requires anyone else in the household to know you have set them.

Healthy gambling is boring gambling

The healthiest play patterns we see across the platform are the dullest ones to describe. A consistent weekly budget, a small number of favourite games, sessions that end on a timer rather than on a result, and a calm acceptance that the long-run expected outcome of casino play is a small net loss in exchange for entertainment.

If your sessions feel like a movie with twists and revelations, you are probably playing too long or staking too high for the budget. The fix is rarely the next spin. It is usually the timer, the cap or the cool-off.

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