Parimatch responsible gaming: how to stop

It means betting only money you can lose, for a fixed time, and stopping the day it stops being a pastime.

The short version of this whole page fits in three lines.

• Betting costs money over time, because the house margin is built into every price and every game.
• A limit only works if you set it before you start and somebody or something other than you enforces it.
• If you cannot stop by yourself, that is common and help exists. Entry 18 has three numbers to call.

Online money gaming is also prohibited in India (entry 25), so the most responsible choice available is not to play at all.

Answer these ten questions about the last three months, with a plain yes or no.

1. Have you bet more money than you had planned to?
2. Have you gone back to win a loss back, the same day or the next?
3. Have you borrowed, used a credit card or sold something in order to bet?
4. Have you hidden your betting, or lied about it, to someone at home?
5. Have you bet with money meant for rent, fees, groceries or an EMI?
6. Have you felt restless or irritable when you tried to cut down?
7. Have you bet to escape stress, loneliness or a bad day?
8. Have you missed work, study or sleep because of betting?
9. Have you needed bigger stakes to feel the same excitement?
10. Has anyone told you they are worried about your betting?

This is a list for thinking with, not a medical test. One yes is worth an honest conversation. Several, or a yes to question 3 or 5, is a reason to call a helpline today.

The signs show up in three places: your money, your time and your mood.

People close to you usually see the right-hand column before you do. If someone at home has raised it, take that seriously.

Because a loss feels like a debt the next bet can repay, and it cannot.

After losing, the mind sets a new target: getting back to zero. Stakes rise to reach it faster, and a bigger stake at the same odds loses faster too. Each result is independent, so a run of losses does not make a win “due”. The margin on every bet is still against you, which means the average outcome of chasing is a larger loss than the one you started with.

The rule that works is mechanical. When your loss limit for the session is reached, you log out, and the money is treated as spent, like a cinema ticket.

No, never. Borrowed money turns a loss you could absorb into one that grows with interest.

This covers every form of borrowing: a loan app, a credit card, a friend, a relative, an advance on your salary, and “credit” offered by an agent. An agent who lets you play now and pay later is not doing you a favour. You would owe money to a private person, for a prohibited activity, with no paperwork and no limit on how they collect.

If you have already borrowed in order to bet, stop depositing today and go to entry 23 before the next due date.

Three: a money limit for the month, a time limit for the session and a loss limit that ends the session.

• Money. One fixed amount per month, taken from what is left after every bill and saving. Winnings do not raise it.
• Time. A set length for each session, with an alarm on your phone. When it rings, you log out even if you are ahead.
• Loss. A figure at which the session is over. Reaching it is the plan working, and it is no reason to deposit again.

Write the three numbers down, or send them to a person you trust. A limit kept only in your head tends to move.

Only a part of what remains after rent, bills, food, savings and family money. For many people the honest figure is zero.

In this example ₹2,000 a month is ₹500 a week over four weeks. With two sessions a week, the loss limit is ₹250 a session. The figures are an illustration of the method and not a recommendation to bet.

Five things, and a no to any one of them means you do not log in today.

1. Is there money left in this month’s limit?
2. Are you calm and sober, and not angry, low or drunk?
3. Is every bill for this month already paid?
4. Is your alarm set for the end of the session?
5. Are you playing for the match, and not to recover yesterday’s loss?

We cannot confirm what it offers, because we have opened no account. Do not build your plan on a tool you have not seen.

That is why this page relies on controls you hold yourself: your bank, your phone and the people around you.

No. No staking plan changes the margin, and the margin is what decides the long-run result.

Doubling after each loss is the commonest plan. Starting at ₹100, six losses in a row cost ₹100, ₹200, ₹400, ₹800, ₹1,600 and ₹3,200, which is ₹6,300 gone, and at even money the seventh bet has to be ₹6,400 to end ₹100 ahead. Long losing runs are ordinary, and limits or an empty balance end the plan before the win arrives.

Paid “fixed match” channels and prediction groups are a separate trap. Nobody holding a sure result would sell it to strangers for a few hundred rupees.

Remove the access, then the money, then the secrecy, in that order and on the same day if you can.

1. Withdraw whatever balance you can and close the account, or ask the agent to close the ID (entry 12).
2. Uninstall every betting app and delete the saved logins and bookmarks.
3. Block betting sites on your phone (entries 13 and 14).
4. Block the agent’s number and leave every tips or betting group.
5. Ask your bank to lower your UPI limit (entry 15).
6. Give one person control of your spare money for a while (entry 16).
7. Call a helpline and tell them what you have just done (entry 18).

Willpower is the weakest of these tools. Each step is there so that a bad evening cannot undo your decision in two minutes.

Ask in writing, and say that you want it closed for good and not paused.

Do not wait for a stuck balance before you stop. A small amount left behind costs less than another month of betting to “clear” it.

Remove the apps, put a timer on the browser and add a filter that blocks gambling as a category.

• Uninstall betting apps, then switch off “install unknown apps” for your browser and file manager.
• Digital Wellbeing, in Settings, can put a daily timer on any app, including your browser.
• On a child’s phone, Google’s Family Link lets a parent block named websites in Chrome.
• Many browsers and DNS services offer a family filter that blocks gambling as a category.
• Clear the browser’s history and saved passwords so that old addresses stop appearing.

Menu names differ between phone makers. No filter is perfect, and its job is to slow you down long enough to think.

Use Screen Time, and ask someone else to set its passcode.

1. Open Settings and go to Screen Time.
2. Turn on Content and Privacy Restrictions.
3. Under web content, choose the option that limits adult websites.
4. Add any betting address you have used to the “never allow” list.
5. Have a person you trust set the Screen Time passcode and keep it from you.

The exact wording changes between iOS versions. Delete any betting app and any home-screen shortcut before you start.

Yes. Ask it to lower your daily UPI and card limits, so that a bad evening has a ceiling.

Many bank apps let you set a lower per-day limit for UPI and for online card payments yourself, and a branch can do it if the app cannot. Choose a figure that covers groceries and travel and nothing more. You can also switch off international and online use on a card you do not need for shopping. Raising a limit again usually takes time or a visit, and that delay is exactly what you want.

You do not have to give the bank a reason. Saying “I want lower limits for safety” is enough.

If you have broken your own limits more than once, yes. It is a temporary tool and nothing to be ashamed of.

• Pick one adult you trust, such as a spouse, parent or sibling.
• Have your salary go to an account they can see, and take a fixed weekly amount for daily spending.
• Let them hold your credit cards, or cancel the ones you do not need.
• Agree a date, perhaps three months ahead, to review the arrangement together.

Tell them the full amount you owe before they start. They cannot protect money they do not know about.

Expect it, and plan for it in advance. An urge rises, peaks and passes, usually within the hour.

Urges tend to arrive at set moments: a big match, salary day, a quarrel, a lonely night, a message from an old agent. Decide now what you will do in each case. Call someone, leave the room where you used to bet, or watch the match with other people and without your phone in your hand. Putting the bet off by one hour is often enough for the urge to fade.

A slip is not the end of stopping. Tell someone the same day, put the blocks back and carry on. If the urge comes with thoughts of harming yourself, call Tele-MANAS on 14416 at once.

These three. None of them charges for the counselling.

These are mental health helplines and not betting-industry services. Problem gambling is a matter they deal with, and so are the stress, debt worry and low mood that come with it. iCall’s number is an ordinary mobile line, so your usual call rate may apply.

A trained person listens, asks a few questions and helps you decide on a next step. Nobody lectures you.

1. You may hear a recorded menu first, asking you to choose a language.
2. Say it simply: “I am calling because I cannot stop betting.”
3. Ask at the start whether the call is confidential and whether you need to give your name.
4. Expect questions about how long it has gone on, your money and how you are feeling.
5. Ask what follow-up or local service they can point you to, and write it down.

If a line is busy, try again after a few minutes or try the next number. The first call is the hard one, and it can be short.

Tell one person, in private, with the full figure, before they find out some other way.

Choose a calm time, not the night of a loss. Say what happened, how much is gone and how much is owed, and what you have already done to stop. Give the real number even though a smaller one is easier to say, because a second confession later does more harm than the first. Expect anger or tears, and let them happen without defending yourself.

Then ask for one specific thing, such as holding your cards or sitting with you while you call a helpline. People cope better with bad news when they are given something to do.

Protect the household’s money first, then talk. You can call the helplines for yourself as well.

You did not cause the betting and you cannot stop it for them. What you can decide is what you will and will not pay for.

Then it has to stop now, and an adult has to take charge of the phone and the money.

• This site is for adults only, and nobody should issue an ID to a minor.
• Find out how the money moved. It is often a parent’s UPI app, a saved card or a friend’s account.
• Change the UPI PIN and remove saved cards from the phone the child uses.
• Set up parental controls on the device (entries 13 and 14).
• Talk about it without punishment first. A frightened teenager hides the next loss.

A parent can call any helpline in entry 18 to ask how to handle the conversation.

Stop depositing, write down everything you owe, and speak to your bank before a payment is missed.

1. List every debt: lender, amount, interest and next due date.
2. Put rent, food and secured loans ahead of everything else.
3. Visit or call your bank early and ask what it can offer, such as a revised repayment schedule.
4. Take no new loan to repay an old one, least of all from an instant loan app.
5. Tell one family member the whole figure (entry 20).
6. Never try to win the debt back. That is how it reached this size.

Lenders are generally easier to deal with before a default than after one. If the debt is weighing on your mind, say so when you call a helpline.

It puts the risks in plain sight, and keeps this page free of any call to get an ID.

• Every page states that the site is for adults, 18 and over.
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That fee gives us an interest in your signing up. We would still prefer that a reader in trouble closes this site and makes a phone call.

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No. Betting online for money is prohibited across the country.

The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act 2025 prohibits online money gaming and its promotion in India from 1 May 2026, and several states had their own bans before that. Parimatch holds no Indian licence because none exists for this activity. If something goes wrong with your money, no regulator here will take up your complaint.

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