Tips for Playing Responsibly

 

• Play for fun and entertainment.
• Only spend what you can afford to lose.
• Use your entertainment budget to play – not money needed for daily living expenses.
• Set a spending limit.  Once you reach your limit, stop playing.
• Set a time limit.  Once you reach your limit, stop playing.
• Understand that winning and losing are both a part of gambling.
• Never borrow money to gamble.
• Never gamble to win back losses.
• Don't let gambling interfere with family, friends or work.
• Don't use gambling as a way to cope with emotional or physical pain.
• Know the warning signs of problem gambling.

Warning signs of problem gambling.

 

• A preoccupation or uncontrollable urge to gamble.
• Increasing bets to sustain a thrill.
• Agitation when attempting to cut back.
• Lying to conceal gambling activity.
• Financing bets through illegal activity.
• Chasing one's losses.
• Gambling as an escape.
• Jeopardizing significant relationships.
• Relying on a financial bailout.
• Failing in an effort to control or stop betting.
  (adapted from American Psychiatric Association DSM-IV)
   

  If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call the toll-free Gambling Helpline at 1-888-781-HELP.

 

GAMES GALORE  

Our games are not all about gambling…we offer lots of optional games for your fun and entertainment.  We have a pool table, a Dart Board, a Mega-touch game, a pin ball game, and will soon be getting a Big Buck Hunter Game.  We have variety of table games in our Safe, located by the ATM machine—you will find cribbage boards and cards, Shut-The-Box, Yatzee, Trivial Pursuit, and others—just take them to your table and enjoy! (Please don’t put the small pieces in your mouth, or we’ll have to report you to the FDA) All this plus 18 Video Lottery games-play for nickels or quarters, makes for good fun any time at the Skyline.