Responsible Gambling

 Taking part in a lottery to win a big prize is a form of gambling. You must therefore be careful to ensure that you are in control of your financial and emotional position when buying tickets.

When a gambler loses the sense of fun that casual gambling is meant to generate, or in the case of a lottery an opportunity to win big whilst his risk is low, it means that he has a problem.

He may begin to look at gambling as a way to make money, or worse still, he keeps on gambling to try and win the big prize, or change his luck. When you gamble not just for that rush or opportunity to win big whilst only betting low, and you find yourself chasing losses and betting more, the result is a vicious circle of increasing losses and increased betting to recover the losses.

Responsible Gambling Tips

For many people gambling is exciting and entertaining. They make careful decisions about how to spend their time and money, where to go and how to have fun.

Here is how you can control your gambling:

• Decide on a loss limit ahead of time and stick to it
• Low-risk gambling is a way of playing with very little chance of losing control. The key to low-risk gambling is to realize that "it's only a game."
• Never borrow money to gamble
• Set a time limit
• Take frequent breaks
• Balance gambling with other activities
• Don't gamble when highly stressed, depressed, intoxicated or troubled in some other way
• Only gamble with money set aside for entertainment, never with money for everyday expenses

You can realize you have a problem.

• If you are leaving your family alone for long periods of time, in order to gamble
• If you arguing frequently with your partner about spending too much time and money on gambling and find that you cannot stop or limit yourself.
• If you are gambling family money needed for rent/mortgage, schooling, medical purposes, groceries, clothes, or heat.
• If you feel you have to gamble to get to spend time with people you understand?
• When you are with your family, at work or at social events, you find that your are constantly thinking about your next bet
• If you look at gambling as a way of making money fast.

If your answer to any of the above is “YES” then we suggest that you take action immediately BEFORE it becomes a worse problem. There are many organizations that may help you to control your problem. For example look at http://www.spielsucht-forum.de/spielsucht-selbsthilfegruppen/ or www.gluecksspielsucht.de or http://www.responsiblegambling.org/en/help/tips.cfm or www.gamcare.org. You may also control yourself by taking immediate action and put limits on what you can do with your account with us.

Actions to take

If you think you have a serious gambling problem you should take the necessary steps to temporarily suspend your account until you resolve your issues. Full details of how to get in touch with us can be found on our contact page. Alternatively you may login to your account and through the MyXXLWinners function change your settings in the Player Protection area.

Should you not wish to suspend your account but just better control your spending you may choose to place limits on your deposits or bet amounts. You can do this by logging into your account and through the MyXXLWinners limits as required in the player protection area.

For your benefit you will not be allowed remove any restrictions placed on your account or bets until a minimum period of seven days has elapsed from when you created the limitation.

Version 1.0

August, 2009