In order to be able to play successfully in the betting market, it makes sense to learn the ability to make your own assessments for the games. In the classical sense, this would be making odds. However, it would be more general and better to work with probabilities. But how do you determine an odds…
1) The fair bet or a completely fair game. This is also an invention of mathematics. Finding this game in practice is equally impossible. Even the toss of a coin for equal money would not be an absolutely fair game. The coin cannot be balanced at all, one side is heavier or lighter or the…
It is already advisable to deal a little with the betting market. Namely, we should look at the following points:How has it developed?How do the prices and assessments come about?How do I position myself in the market?How do the prices develop?When should one bet?And, most helpfully, how do you arrive at your own assessments? a)…
In this chapter I would like to examine the betting market in all its particularities. There are many interesting aspects to this. First of all, there is a past and a present of the betting market. Then there are the different perspectives, that of the provider and that of the player. Then there is the…
Foreword Never, and this really applies exclusively, should one begin a text with “I”. I have taken this to heart here, even though it forced itself upon me. For the actual preface only now begins with the confession: I am a player.What did you spontaneously think? It seems so neutral, but the associations are astonishing.…
This book is about playing. “What do you mean, playing? Do you mean this gambling? Playing for money?” Yes, no, it is simply about playing. The word “play” is not the only one for which there is more than one conception. It is, so to speak, “a broad concept”. There are many types of play,…
Never, and this really applies once and only, should one begin a text with “I”. I have taken this to heart here, although it seems to me to be an imposition. For the real preface only begins now: I was never welcomed as a reader in such a friendly and original way as I was…
Biography 1) Childhood games (1964-1978)a. Memoryb. Puzzlesc. The perfect car raced. Formula 1e. Tipp Kick (football)f. Rouletteg. Footballh. Subbuteoi. Chess2) Dortmund – London (summer 1980)a. Dortmund – iron disciplineb. Depression, two friends, Bielc. Bobby Fischerd. Washed up in Spain, by chancee. Badalonaf. Across Spaing. Across the Atlantic for an Elo numberh. Londoni. Only home 3)…
The author, Dirk Paulsen, was born on 27 January 1959 in Berlin. Already in his early childhood he showed a special mathematical talent, which he himself did not attach much importance to as a child. The “arithmetic tricks” he often had to perform were more the result of a fascination with other people than of…
The Author Dirk Paulsen was born in Berlin on 27 January 1959. Two of his great-grandfathers have achieved a certain fame. Berthold-Otto founded his own school, which still exists today in Lichterfelde, while great-grandfather Friedrich Paulsen gave his name to a street in Steglitz as well as to a school there.Paulsen’s fascination with numbers began…
