Content biographical
1) Children’s games
a. Name: “Kinderspiele.doc
b. Period: 1961-1977
c. Content: My 5 favourite children’s games, up to and including chess. Emphasis of course on playing and the intensity and perfection of it.
d. Assessment: It can be interesting, also psychologically, to look for (and possibly find) a prehistory in childhood for my later path in life.
2) Dortmund-London
a. Name: “Dortmund-London.doc
b. Period: Summer 1980
c. Contents: Chess tournaments in Dortmund, Biel, Badalona, London. Travelogue.
d. Assessment: Exciting and interesting. A lot has happened. Readable.
3) Nothing Summer 1980-82
a. Name: “NonSummer80-82.doc”.
b. Period: 1980-82
c. Content: Part-time student and frequent chess player on (tramp) trips.
d. Assessment: Also interesting, easy to read.
4) BielbisGraz
a. Name: “BielbisGraz.doc”.
b. Period: Summer trip 1981
c. Content: Campsite in Biel, chess tournament there, Interrail with Angie through Europe, money ran out, off to Vejle (Dk) to raise new money at the chess tournament.
d. Assessment: Quite interesting, especially fitting: money runs out in the south of France, how does the player help himself? Play a tournament in Denmark! Cash in hand and a night in a hotel.
5) Graz 1981
a. Name: “Graz1981.doc
b. Period: 1981
c. Content: The World Junior Team Championships in Graz. Me as a national player.
d. Evaluation: Quite interesting story. Enough personal, but too much about chess (positions).
6) Krosno 1981
a. Name: “Krosno 1981.doc”.
b. Period: 1981
c. Content: Chess tournament in Krosno. Meeting with Kasparov.
d. Assessment: Also quite interesting story due to the special situation (embargo of the Soviet Union) in Poland. Special feature, of course, the chance meeting of Kasparov.
7) First steps
a. Name: “First Steps. doc”
b. Period: 1982
c. Contents: only the San Bernardino story is still in it, where C. and I offered bets.
d. Assessment: The story is actually pretty. Klausen 1982 is part of it, but if so, urgently revise.
8) Klausen 1982
a. Name: “Klausen82.doc
b. Period: 1982
c. Content: Chess trip to Klausen, in all details.
d. Assessment: Crazy but exciting story. Already one of the highlights of the texts. Also due to the first introduction of betting.
9) Backgammon beginning
a. Name: “Backgammonanfang.doc”.
b. Period: 1983-1984
c. Content: Moving to Freiburg, learning some games instead of studying, in the end backgammon, literature and winning tournaments.
d. Assessment: That’s just how it was, my life. Always only playing. But backgammon had a very high aptitude value for my skills.
10) First visits to the game bank
a. Name: “ErsteSpielbankbesuche.doc”.
b. Period: End of 1983 to beginning of 1984
c. Content: Small stupidities are simply part of the game. And: the law that you don’t think about the cause when you win also applies to me. Reality caught up with me, I reacted (sensibly).
d. Assessment: simply has to be told. Also makes me more human, not just the always rational player. Also authentic, brings credibility by admitting stupidity.
11) Chequers and calculators
a. Name: “ChequersCalculator”.
b. Period: End of 1983 – October 1984
c. Content: Calculation of the Black Jack, by hand, with check blocks and pocket calculator
d. Assessment: Not so exciting. Entry into the world of gambling, first money games, moves, Freiburg, own calculations.
12) Payment practice
a. Name: “PraxisZahlungsmoral.doc”.
b. Period: 1984
c. Content: only one or two tiny stories, whether you get money or not
d. Assessment: if you want it to go in, you have to go for it. Tell a few more stories about how and whether you get money.
13) Golden dice
a. Name: “GoldeneWürfel.doc” (Golden Dice)
b. Period: 1984
c. Content: The first backgammon tournament in Germany (Hamburg). The winner? Dirk Paulsen!
d. Assessment: Nix. Told elsewhere?
14) Practice of the doubling system
a. Name: “PracticeDoublingSystem.doc”.
b. Period: 1985
c. Content: Found backer who wanted to play blackjack with me. He plays roulette out of boredom and starts winning. I join in and we both won for 14 days. I quit, he went broke.
d. Evaluation: Really nice story. And authentic. Even with a small share of women.
15) Beaver-Dirk
a. Name: “BiberDirk.doc”
b. Period: 1985
c. Content: A day with two bankruptcies and embarrassments, but exciting
d. Assessment: Readable, pretty, entertaining.
16) A streak
a. Name: “A streak.doc”.
b. Period: Summer 1985
c. Content: trip to the World Backgammon Championships in Monte Carlo and all the experiences there and afterwards, 6 weeks there, blackjack winnings, running away from winning, Paris, silliness, women, it’s all there.
d. Assessment: Still the cream of the crop.
17) The Harley Man
a. Name: “The Harley Man.doc”
b. Period: 1985
c. Content: Encounter with the Harley man through backgammon. Reunion at the casino. He finances his losses by robbing banks, it turns out.
d. Assessment: Quite interesting and entertaining. Little danger of gambling?
18) Zurich – Cologne – Frankfurt
a. Name: “ZurichCologneFrankfurt.doc
b. Period: turn of the year 1985/86
c. Contents: Backgammon in Zurich, eventful trip to Cologne, chess in Cologne, plane to Frankfurt, backgammon tournament there.
d. Assessment: Worth reading.
19) On the Kiez
a. Name: “Auf dem Kiez.doc” (On the neighbourhood)
b. Period: 1985-86
c. Content: A few stories of neighbourhood games, including cheating and beating instead of money.
d. Assessment: Also a part of the gambler’s life. A weighty argument why parents want to keep their children away from gambling. There is a gambling-gambling-red-light-crime relationship.
20) Pasch-Jürgen
a. Name: “Paschjürgen.doc”
b. Period: 1986
c. Content: Very short story of the man who wanted to make a double in 5 throws and took bets on it.
d. Assessment: Every person who was not directly from the field usually slips out a most blatant misjudgement about it. As an example that calculating is worthwhile, so to speak ideal.
21) The football programme biographically
a. Name: “FootballProgramBiography.doc
b. Period: 1985-1990
c. Content: from the first steps of the programme to the final implementation and algorithms.
d. Assessment: This needs to be told. Incomplete! Also not that exciting.
22) EM 1988
a. Name: “EM 1988.doc
b. Period: Summer 1988
c. Contents: Betting on the 1988 European Championship, first bets.
d. Assessment: That’s how it was, the gambler’s life. Always looking for good opportunities to earn money. Preliminary thoughts on professional football betting.
23) Jackpot Pauli
a. Name: “JackpotPauli.doc”.
b. Period: 1988
c. Content: The backgammon tournaments in Berlin, Hamburg, St.Tropez, San Remo and Monte Carlo with plenty of success for me.
d. Assessment: It was like that. Whether luck or simply well played?! Who knows. In any case exciting. Quite many and long digressions. Backgammon games explained. Useful??
24) Jumping on the bandwagon
a. Name: “DemZufallaufdieSprünge.doc”.
b. Period: 1988 World Backgammon Championship
c. Content: Just a little story of possible dice cheating
d. Assessment: Although it happened and is interesting for the reader, it could well be dispensed with. Too many clichés served and danger with naming?!
25) Permanence and the consequences
a. Name: “Permanencies and the consequences.doc”.
b. Period: 1990
c. Content: Evaluation of permanences. The whole thing explained very mathematically and with graphics.
d. Assessment: The first encounter with fundamental thinking. There is no “LaPlace space” and never and nowhere an equal distribution. Even advanced students are wrong here, often even more than others.
26) My betting shop
a. Name: “My Betting Office.doc
b. Period: 1990 – ?
c. Content: Me as a betting operator, especially in the early days from 1990-1992.
d. Assessment: Well told. The explanation why a betting provider does not have it easy. In any case, I have only ever lost. Sometimes through stupidity, sometimes through enormous bad luck.
27) First real bets
a. Name: “ErsteEchteWetten.doc” (First Real Bets)
b. Period: 1990 – 1991
c. Content: Early phase of football betting. At first theoretical betting, hardly any reactions, so go for it and bet professionally.
d. Assessment: belongs to it. Especially the professional behaviour of doing everything theoretically first. That was already good of me.
28) Sports betting Salzburg
a. Name: “Sportwetten Salzburg.doc”.
b. Period: 1991
c. Content: Invitation to Salzburg, trip there, shop closed, broke.
d. Assessment: This is not how one would have imagined a betting office, is it?
29) A true prophet
a. Name: “A true prophet.doc”.
b. Period: 1993
c. Content: Micha, partner at the time, puts himself in a trance and guesses all the results of the evening. For me 2000 DM profit. But: never repeated.
d. Evaluation: Nice little story. Moral: our discipline as professional gamblers. World view is verified.
30) Synonym – in another sense
a. Name: “Synonym – in the other sense.doc”
b. Period: 1992
c. Content: Austria (Salzburg) played, Austria (Vienna) won, 6000 DM extra.
d. Evaluation: The moral of this is quite interesting. And also what can happen to you.
31) WORLD CUP 1994
a. Name: “WM94.doc
b. Period: 1994
c. Content: Stories and bets on the World Cup 1994
d. Assessment: As it presents a completely different perspective from that of the ordinary spectator, in any case interesting and worth reading. Partly even very emotional. I revise: Very exciting. Many digressions and details, but that does not hurt.
32) BlackJackEnd
a. Name: “BlackJackEnd.doc”
b. Period: actually 1997
c. Content: the trip to Scheveningen, blackjack played among umpteen professionals, well earned, but the final act.
d. Assessment: interesting and entertaining, but self-congratulation.
33) Outing as a professional gambler
a. Name: “Outing_as_professional_gamer.doc”.
b. Period: from 1990
c. Content: Since 1990 only professional players. But the real outing only began at the beginning of this century, around 2003 for good.
d. Assessment: Told out of injured vanity. Statement of aspiration to understand my profession. Partly background to the writing of the book, of course, so already important.
34) My twins
a. Name: “My twins.doc”.
b. Period: 2000 – 2002
c. Content: The absolutely unbelievable story of my twins
d. Assessment: Absolute must, exciting, moving, authentic, only problem: due to the extremely improbable, does it become unbelievable? Fact is: it was exactly like that. Not a word invented, added, changed to create suspense.
35) 10 January 2009
a. Name: “The 10th of January 2009
b. Period: 10.1.2009
c. Content: A day in the life of a gambler, focus on football betting, but also some poker
d. Assessment: Good, exciting, everything on it. Danger: Bad luck is emphasised but won in the end.
36) 21.2.2009
a. Name: “21.February2009.doc”
b. Period: The 21st of February 2009
c. Content: a day in the life of a gambler, mainly football betting
d. Assessment: Entertaining, readable, funny, emotional. But casts a slightly different light on the “serious gambler” who only makes rational decisions.
37) Own swings
a. Name: “OwnSwings.doc”
b. Period: timeless
c. Content: the biggest swings I have been exposed to, in profit and in loss
d. Assessment: also interesting but because chronology hurt questionable?!
38) Nicknames
a. Name: “Nicknames.doc
b. Period: from toddler, but rather timeless
c. Content: All my nicknames and a few others.
d. Assessment: Pauli narrates and gets into ramblings, as usual.
39) Coincidences and lucky numbers
a. Name: “Coincidences and lucky numbers.doc”.
b. Period: timeless
c. Content: superstitions, lucky numbers, coupled with special events that led to them.
d. Assessment: quite a few striking and also exciting stories, huge curiosities. But: huge leaps in time, no one can keep up with that?
40) From the soul life of a player
a. Name: “From the life of a selenium.doc”.
b. Period: timeless
c. Content: Just how you feel: only recognition is among players. Compensation only through sufficiently earned money. Socially worthless.
d. Assessment: Somewhat depressive. Nevertheless, certainly many interesting thoughts about the profession.
41) Chess for money
a. Name: “SchachumGeld.doc” (Chess for Money)
b. Period: timeless
c. Content: Assessment of the (in)suitability of chess as a money game. Also philosophical considerations about luck in chess.
d. Assessment: Nothing special, yet somehow interesting.
42) Practice of the event space
a. Name: “PraxisdesEreignisraum,doc”.
b. Period: timeless
c. Content: not directly biographical. Many examples about unexpected outcomes of real random experiments.
d. Assessment: Suitable for raising awareness of basic thinking.
