Ordered chapter overview “Calculating luck – from the life of a player”.
General chapters:
1) Preface
2) Introduction
3) Sport Game Tension
4) The unloved child of the unloved child
5) Bankruptcies
6) The goat problem
7) Insurances
8) The hierarchy of games
9) The payment morale
10) Betting games
11) Game developments
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Philosophical Chapters
13) My chaos theory
14) Murphies law
15) The event space
16) The meaning of luck and bad luck
17) More about luck and bad luck
18) Paradoxes
19) Swings
20) Simulations
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Mathematical chapters
24) Ratio of probability of occurrence to odds
25) The LaPlace Experiment
26) How often does a double occur?
27) The Betting Market
28) Own estimations
29) The goat problem
30) A few number games
31) Expected value and equity
32) Approach to the problem of testing forecast quality
33) The perfect betting game
34) Lucky (mushrooms) and unlucky (birds)
35) The Elosystem or better: The Paul System
36) Tennis
Narrative section
37) First steps (1978-82)
38) The early days of backgammon (1983)
39) Permanences and the consequences (1991)
40) Me on the wrong side (1985)
41) Woman in Paris (1985)
42) “I make doubles in 5 throws” (1985)
43) The Harley Man (1985)
44) How do you get chance on your side? (1986, 1989)
45) Black Jack and the Final End (1985-1996)
46) Sports Betting Salzburg (May 1991)
47) Synonym – in another sense (1993)
48) Own swings (1989-1998), several examples
49) Black Jack, until the end in Scheveningen (1985 – 1996)
50) My outing as a professional gambler (1990-2008)
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The games themselves
52) Chess
53) Roulette
54) Black Jack
55) Backgammon
56) Poker
57) Lotto
58) Horse betting – totalisator principle
59) Toto
60) The stock exchange
61) Betting
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