Legal
Responsible Gambling
If gambling has stopped being fun, help is free and it is available right now.
Call 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537). Text 800GAM to 800522. Or chat at ncpgambling.com/chat. The National Problem Gambling Helpline is free, confidential, and open 24 hours a day, every day.
If you are in immediate crisis, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
You must be 18 or older
You must be at least 18 years old to have a Nosebleed Sports account. We do not knowingly let anyone younger in, and we close accounts we find out about.
Betting has its own age limit, and it is usually higher. In most US states you must be 21 to place a real-money sports bet. That limit is set by your state and enforced by the sportsbook, not by us. Check it before you sign up anywhere.
We do not take bets
Nosebleed Sports is not a sportsbook. We publish information and we run simulated games. We never take, place, broker, or route a real-money wager, and we never hold your money.
The in-app bet tracker is a scoring game played in units. Units cannot be bought, cashed out, or redeemed for anything. Nothing you do inside our product puts real money on a game.
Our picks are information, not advice
Everything we publish is opinion and analysis for information and entertainment. It is not betting advice, financial advice, or investment advice, and we are not licensed to give any of those.
Nobody at Nosebleed Sports knows what a game is going to do. Anyone who tells you they do is selling you something. What you bet, and whether you bet at all, is your decision and yours alone.
Past results do not predict future results
When we publish a record, it describes days that already happened. It is not a forecast. A good month does not make the next game a lock, and a hot streak is not evidence that the next one is coming.
Every game is its own event. A run of wins does not make a loss less likely, and a run of losses does not mean you are "due." That feeling has a name, the gambler's fallacy, meaning the false belief that past results change the odds of the next one. They do not.
Never bet money you need. Not rent, not groceries, not borrowed money. Set an amount you can lose without it changing your week, and stop there.
Warning signs
Any of these is worth taking seriously:
- Betting more than you planned, or more often than you planned.
- Chasing losses, meaning betting bigger to win back what you already lost.
- Borrowing money to bet, or hiding what you bet from people close to you.
- Betting to escape stress, boredom, or a bad mood rather than for fun.
- Missing work, sleep, or people you care about because of it.
If you read that list and recognised yourself, call the helpline at the top of this page. It is one phone call and it is free.
Self-exclusion and blocking tools
Self-exclusion means asking to be locked out of betting for a set period, and it is legally binding on the operators it covers. Every US state with legal sports betting runs a voluntary self-exclusion list, and every licensed sportsbook has its own deposit limits, time limits, and self-exclusion switch in its account settings. Use them. They work.
| National Council on Problem Gambling | Treatment finder, the 24/7 helpline, and the directory of state self-exclusion programs. |
| Gamblers Anonymous | Free peer support meetings, in person and online, everywhere in the US. |
| Gam-Anon | Support for the family and friends of someone who gambles. |
| GamBan | Software that blocks gambling sites and apps on your phone and computer. |
| Gamblock | Another blocking tool, if you want a second layer on your devices. |
| Responsible Play (AGA) | Plain-language guides on limits, odds, and how the games actually work. |
What we will do if you ask
We cannot self-exclude you from a sportsbook. We are not one, and we have no way to reach their systems. What we can do, we will do the same day you ask:
- Close your Nosebleed Sports account and delete your data.
- Cancel any subscription so it stops charging you.
- Take you off the newsletter and every other marketing email.
- Remove you from our Discord server if you want out of that too.
Email support@nosebleedsportsmedia.com and say what you want. You do not have to explain why, and we will not try to talk you out of it.
Sponsored links
Some links on this site are paid affiliate links to sportsbooks and social casinos. We get paid when eligible people sign up through them. Those operators set their own age limits, their own state rules, and their own offer terms.
If you are working on cutting back, do not use those links, and consider one of the blocking tools above so the choice is not in front of you every day.
Contact
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support@nosebleedsportsmedia.com
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