After spending some time away from poker and dedicating more time to the other beautiful things in life, Lady Luck brought me back on track. Together with my father and brother I filled out a lottery ticket and won. My share was 1,485 marks. As a result of this I picked up cards as I felt that this was the beginning of a run of good luck. Every now and then my life has become involved with things that I cannot explain and at that time it was the matter of the run of luck. Whether you believe it not I went a number of months without losing. It’s hardly surprising that at this time I developed a certain kind of superstition that remains with me to this day.