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General casino guides
The broad explainers: how games, bonuses and payments work, written for someone reading about it for the first time.
Casino Guru · Content Writer · Brno
Nela Malikova
Nela writes Casino Guru's general guides and the responsible gambling content behind them: clear explanations of how gambling works, and of the signs that it has stopped being a game. She studied psychology at Masaryk University and has written about risk for six years.
- 6 years in responsible gambling content
- Psychology, Masaryk University
- Author of three books
What she writes
Three signals, one clear voice
Most of her work sits on the same scale: from how a game works, to checking your own play, to where to turn when it stops being fun.
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Risk-assessment tools
Self-tests and checklists that help readers look honestly at their own play, explained without jargon or judgement.
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Responsible gambling content
Warning signs, limits, self-exclusion and where to find help, written for someone who might need it today.
Know the signs
A simple scale for an honest check
The idea behind her first book, Know Your Risk: most people can place their own play on a scale, once someone shows them the scale.
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Playing for fun
You set a budget and a time limit before you start, and you keep to them. Losing is the cost of the evening, not a problem to fix.
- 02
Watch the signs
You play longer than planned, chase losses or feel restless when you try to cut down. A good moment for firmer limits or a break.
- 03
Time to get help
You borrow to gamble, hide it from people close to you or feel you cannot stop. Talk to a support service in your country: help is free and confidential.
This scale is for information, not a diagnosis.
Books
Three books, written plainly
On gambling risk, on writing about health and wellbeing, and a small book about yoga, writing and quiet. All three are written in English.
Know Your Risk
A Practical Guide to Gambling, Warning Signs and Staying in Control
Writing for Health
A Guide to Clear, Kind and Responsible Health and Wellbeing Content
The Quiet Page
Notes on Yoga, Writing and Making Space for the Mind
Outside work
The mat and the notebook
Most mornings Nela unrolls a yoga mat on the floor of her flat in Brno, and most evenings she opens a notebook. She writes short fiction and poetry in Czech and English, usually in one of the city's cafés. Her book The Quiet Page is about both habits.
At a glance
- Title
- Content Writer, Casino Guru
- Experience
- 6 years writing general guides and responsible gambling content
- Before Casino Guru
- Writer at a digital public health publisher; teacher of English as a foreign language
- Education
- Bachelor's in Psychology, Masaryk University, Brno (2015–2019)
- Languages
- Czech (native), Slovak and English
- Born and based in
- Brno, Czech Republic
- Outside work
- Yoga, creative writing