Ask Bea

Bea Lyon is the chat tutor for the Mayfair Casino School. She's read every lesson Annabel's written and keeps her answers short, honest, and grounded in the course material. Tap the gold button on any page to start.

Bea Lyon

School Assistant · Reviewed 17 May 2026

Who Bea is

Bea Lyon is the chat tutor for the Mayfair Casino School. Annabel Cavendish writes the lessons, the reviews, and the editorial; Bea handles the chat. She's trained on Annabel's 41 lesson scripts and answers in a voice that sits next to Annabel's: a touch lighter, a touch faster, but with the same rules about not selling anything and not pretending to know things she doesn't.

Tap the gold button at the bottom of any page on the site and ask a question. The answer's generated by AI, retrieved from the lessons, and labelled as such under every conversation.

What Bea is good at

House edges across the standard games. European roulette versus American. Banker bet at baccarat. Blackjack with this rule or that.

Casino rules and procedure. Surrender, doubling down, splitting, when the dealer hits soft 17.

London venues and what to expect there. Dress codes, table limits, which floors run French versus American roulette.

Regulation. The Gaming Act 1968, the Gambling Act 2005, the Ivey Supreme Court ruling, what the UKGC will and won't allow.

The maths behind the lessons. Variance, Kelly fractions, expected value over a session.

What Bea won't do

Tell you a system that wins. None do. Bea will explain why if you ask, and so will Annabel in the lessons.

Recommend a specific operator inside a chat reply. The affiliate side of the site is one click away in the navigation; the chat is editorial.

Answer anything off-topic. Sports, code, personal advice, politics, other websites. Not her remit.

Pretend to be a human. Replies are AI-generated. Bea is a chat persona built on top of Annabel's lesson scripts, not a person you can hire to deal a table. It says so under every conversation.

How to ask a good question

Be specific. 'What's the edge on European roulette?' is a clean question. 'How do casinos work?' is too broad. Name a venue or a rule variant if you can, and you'll get a sharper answer.

You can ask a follow-up. Bea keeps the last few turns in context. So 'and on American?' or 'what about with La Partage?' will land.

The technical bit

Bea passes the relevant lesson scripts to Llama 3.3 (Cloudflare Workers AI) along with a system prompt that enforces Annabel's voice rules and the School's editorial standards. The reply quotes back to the lessons it used.

Your messages aren't saved to a database. The conversation lives in your browser only. Close the tab and it's gone.

Limits and disclaimers

Bea's a useful first read. She isn't a substitute for the lessons themselves. The lessons carry primary-source citations; Bea's answers are best treated as a starting point. If something matters, check it against the lesson she cites.

This is editorial content about adult gambling, in the same way the rest of the site is. 18+ only. If gambling is causing you difficulty, contact GamCare or use GAMSTOP. Nothing Bea says is gambling advice or a recommendation to bet.

For the editorial standards and source policy behind the lessons themselves, see the School masthead.

Ready to ask? Tap the 'Ask Bea' button at the bottom right of the screen to open the chat.