Responsible play
Telly is built around a few refusals. This page says what they are
and why they are there.
Telly will never tell you what to bet. Not as a hedge, not as a hint,
not if you ask it directly. It explains what a price means and what it costs.
What you do with that is yours.
What Telly refuses to do
- Recommend a position. No picks, no leans, no “value here”.
- Call a price wrong. Telly has no view on whether a market is
mispriced, and it has been tested specifically to make sure it does not
imply one.
- Tell you what you are owed. It will do arithmetic on a record you
show it — and it will also tell you when that record is too short to mean
anything, which is most of the time.
- Make the next bet feel close. There are no streaks, no nudges, no
notifications designed to bring you back.
What a small sample actually tells you
This is the thing most tools get wrong, so it is worth saying plainly. A record
of a few hundred bets usually cannot distinguish skill from luck. The swing you
would expect from chance alone is wider than almost any real edge. If Telly
works out your return, it will also tell you how uncertain that number is — and
the honest answer is often “this does not yet mean anything.”
Telly does not hide that to make you feel better about a run.
The house edge is in the price
Every quoted price contains the margin the venue takes. Telly will show you
exactly how much — that is most of what it is for. Knowing the margin does not
remove it. Over enough bets, it is the thing that decides the outcome.
If it has stopped being fun
Betting more than you can lose, chasing what you have lost, hiding it, or
feeling that you cannot stop are all worth taking seriously, and help is free
and confidential.
Most venues also offer deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion from inside
your own account settings. Those work whether or not Telly is installed.
Turning Telly off
Remove it from Chrome and it is gone, along with everything it kept. If you have
self-excluded somewhere, Telly will keep reading that page like any other — it
is not a block, and it is not a substitute for one.
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