Responsible gambling for Lizaro players: set a weekly budget, then know how to stop

Gambling can be addictive. Play only if you are at least 18, which is Lizaro’s rule and the minimum gambling age in Great Britain, and only with money you can afford to lose. This page starts from a weekly budget, shows what it means against Lizaro’s own numbers, and ends with the ways to stop at Lizaro and the UK services that help.

Start with a weekly amount, decided before you open the site

A weekly budget is an amount you fix when you are calm and treat as spent the moment it is deposited. Choose it from what is left after rent, bills and savings, not from what a bonus allows.

At €140 (about £118.67) a day of stakes, a €35 weekly budget is turned over four times a day. Put into the welcome package, that budget carries a requirement of €1,400 of stakes within 10 days, forty times the deposit. The requirement promises nothing; it is only the amount of play the bonus asks of you, and play is how a budget gets used up.

Warning signs, matched to what you will see at Lizaro

The usual signs are easy to list and harder to notice in yourself: playing for longer than planned, depositing again to win back a loss, hiding the amount from people close to you, borrowing to gamble and feeling irritable when you stop. A few of them have a Lizaro form.
If you catch yourself raising a stake towards the €100 (about £84.76) limit that applies while a casino bonus is active, the stake has stopped being a plan. And if an account sits unopened for 180 days and then gets a €5 (about £4.24) monthly fee, treat that as a prompt to decide whether you want the account at all.

Stopping rules to write down in advance

Three rules work better when they are written before the session. First, a stop-loss: when the weekly budget is gone, the week is over, with no top-up. Second, a stop-win: when the balance reaches an amount you chose, you withdraw. At Level 1 Lizaro allows €500 (about £423.82) a day, so a decision to withdraw a €1,400 (about £1,187) balance takes three days of that ceiling, which is a useful reminder to decide early. Third, a time limit: pick the end of the session first.
Bonuses can pull against all three. A bonus with a 10-day clock rewards a steady daily turnover, and that rhythm is the opposite of stopping. If the choice is between honouring the bonus and honouring the budget, the budget wins.

One week on a €150 budget, with the stopping points marked

Split the €150 (about £127.14) into three sessions of €50 (about £42.38). After the first session, check what is left; if the €50 is gone, the session is over and the other two stay as they are. If the week ends with a balance, withdrawing it is a decision, not a reflex: at Level 1 a payout of up to €500 (about £423.82) fits into one day of the ceiling, and Lizaro processes requests within 3 business days.
The moment of greatest risk is the evening the budget runs out. Three actions help: close the session, move on to something unrelated, and leave the next deposit until the next week begins. If the urge to top up outweighs the plan, that is the moment to ask for a time-out.

Taking a break with Lizaro: time-out and self-exclusion

There are two routes. For a break, you contact the support team, who set up a time-out. For a longer step, you can ask for self-exclusion by e-mail to Lizaro support, and the account is then closed as soon as practicable.
Opening another account afterwards is not a loophole: it remains the player’s sole responsibility to make sure no further accounts are opened. A break only works if you stay away from every account.

Barriers Lizaro enforces, and what each means for a stop-win

Winnings go back by the funding method wherever possible, so decide a stop-win with that route in mind. At Level 1 the daily ceiling is €500 (about £423.82), which means a stop-win of €1,400 (about £1,187) leaves over three days, not at once. At most three withdrawals can be pending, so a balance split into €500 pieces fills the queue after €1,500 (about £1,271) and the fourth piece waits. None of these barriers is a limit you set; they are fixed, and a stop-win that respects them is one you can actually carry out.

If gambling is no longer fun: who to call in the UK

Call 0808 8020 133 or use live chat to reach the National Gambling Helpline (GamCare), which costs nothing and answers around the clock. In Wales there is also 0808 2819 265.
A call made before the weekly budget is gone is easier than one made after a bad month.

Minors and shared devices

Registration by anyone under 18 is prohibited, and all winnings gained by underage players are cancelled. Keep your login details private and do not leave a device with a saved session where a young person can reach it.

Privacy when you ask for help

If you write to this site, the contact address is [email protected]; please do not send account details or documents, and read the privacy page for how a message is handled.