I haven't watched any of it, but I read it was either yesterday or the day before, he just won over 50k on one show, but only beat the second place finisher by $18, to keep the streak going.
Good skill mixed with good luck is a winning combination.
@stevek said:
I haven't watched any of it, but I read it was either yesterday or the day before, he just won over 50k on one show, but only beat the second place finisher by $18, to keep the streak going.
Good skill mixed with good luck is a winning combination.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind man. Translation:Long as you win by a dollar is as good as a thousand.
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@stevek said:
I haven't watched any of it, but I read it was either yesterday or the day before, he just won over 50k on one show, but only beat the second place finisher by $18, to keep the streak going.
Good skill mixed with good luck is a winning combination.
Side note on this particular show. The second place finisher with I think it was $53,999 was the highest losing total in show history.
This win wasn't luck. James led the entire game and only had to get the final jeopardy question correct to win. The size of the win was of no consequence. You or anyone who has any interest in the game Jeopardy or trivia games in general should tune in. His knowledge and speed on the signaling button are phenomenal. Of course, I'm sure youtube is probably full of video clips by now.
@stevek said:
I haven't watched any of it, but I read it was either yesterday or the day before, he just won over 50k on one show, but only beat the second place finisher by $18, to keep the streak going.
Good skill mixed with good luck is a winning combination.
Side note on this particular show. The second place finisher with I think it was $53,999 was the highest losing total in show history.
This win wasn't luck. James led the entire game and only had to get the final jeopardy question correct to win. The size of the win was of no consequence. You or anyone who has any interest in the game Jeopardy or trivia games in general should tune in. His knowledge and speed on the signaling button are phenomenal. Of course, I'm sure youtube is probably full of video clips by now.
Good luck in that situation was getting the right "answer" at the right time. If on that final Jeopardy answer, the sports gambler didn't know the "question" and his opponent did, then that would have been the end of the streak. There is some good luck involved in that.
@45isodd said:
By that logic, if you don’t know the answer to a question, you’re just “unlucky”, and not uninformed.
SteveK explained to all of us how this guy was never going to amount to anything ...... weeks ago. 21 days 1.6 million dollars later it turns out he is just lucky
@45isodd said:
By that logic, if you don’t know the answer to a question, you’re just “unlucky”, and not uninformed.
SteveK explained to all of us how this guy was never going to amount to anything ...... weeks ago. 21 days 1.6 million dollars later it turns out he is just lucky
Never amount to anything from sports gambling, in which he never did amount to anything with that.
His skill at Jeopardy is obvious. However to get a nice streak going such as this, there is without question a factor of good luck involved.
@stevek said:
I haven't watched any of it, but I read it was either yesterday or the day before, he just won over 50k on one show, but only beat the second place finisher by $18, to keep the streak going.
Good skill mixed with good luck is a winning combination.
Side note on this particular show. The second place finisher with I think it was $53,999 was the highest losing total in show history.
This is the unfortunate result of Holzhauer's aggressive/successful style of play. Several of his competitors have had remarkable scores of their own, scores that would have wiped the floor with any other field at any other time period in the game, and yet these players get unnoticed/unrewarded due to Holzhauer's accomplishments.
@stevek said:
I haven't watched any of it, but I read it was either yesterday or the day before, he just won over 50k on one show, but only beat the second place finisher by $18, to keep the streak going.
Good skill mixed with good luck is a winning combination.
Side note on this particular show. The second place finisher with I think it was $53,999 was the highest losing total in show history.
This is the unfortunate result of Holzhauer's aggressive/successful style of play. Several of his competitors have had remarkable scores of their own, scores that would have wiped the floor with any other field at any other time period in the game, and yet these players get unnoticed/unrewarded due to Holzhauer's accomplishments.
I haven't watched any of it. But let's say in one of the closer contests, with his aggressive style, I've read where he bets heavy on the daily doubles...if he misses just one of these in one of those close contests, his streak ends. Perhaps it could have been early.
So while it's obvious that he's got tremendous skill at the game, it's also obvious that he's been lucky as well.
It's a different venue and everything, but it reminds me a little bit of the World Series of Poker, main event. Whereby the players who win the "races", the "coin flips", getting the right cards at the right time throughout the tournament, are the ones who get to the final table, and one of them ends up winning.
Often at this poker main event the players at the final table aren't the best poker players. Yes, they are good players, but for sure they have been lucky players with this particular tourney. I recall some years back one of these players, who wound up finishing second, said that he was only the fourth best player just in his home poker game with friends - LOL.
@stevek said:
I've read where he bets heavy on the daily doubles...if he misses just one of these in one of those close contests, his streak ends. Perhaps it could have been early.
So while it's obvious that he's got tremendous skill at the game, it's also obvious that he's been lucky as well.
Agreed. He has been lucky that all of the daily doubles have ended in his favor. He seems to succeed on all of the hard questions. Not to jinx him, but perhaps he will slip up on an easy question someday.
Ken Jennings was dethroned when he missed a question about H&R Block (answer was: Most of this firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year).
So it is lucky that he knows the answers to the questions. I guess it was lucky that Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs, and Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941 because you know there was good luck involved that the pitchers they faced threw the ball where they could hit it. With your definition of "good luck involved" basically any accomplishment has an element of good luck involved. In which case you are simply pointing out the obvious, it would be like saying "and his heart was beating when he hit that home run, or answered that question". By adding a qualifier that is present in every activity, you are not making an observation but simply trying to denigrate the accomplishment.
@fergie23 said:
So it is lucky that he knows the answers to the questions. I guess it was lucky that Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs, and Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941 because you know there was good luck involved that the pitchers they faced threw the ball where they could hit it. With your definition of "good luck involved" basically any accomplishment has an element of good luck involved. In which case you are simply pointing out the obvious, it would be like saying "and his heart was beating when he hit that home run, or answered that question". By adding a qualifier that is present in every activity, you are not making an observation but simply trying to denigrate the accomplishment.
Robb
I understand what you are saying. I guess I was just venting because Adam Levin racked up almost $54k, and what does he have to show for it? A few minutes of fame and $2k. That makes it seem that his accomplishment was denigrated. I'm stuck on the fact that he could have bought a 1952 Mantle PSA 5 had he won the $54k, assuming that he would be a card collector .
@fergie23 said:
So it is lucky that he knows the answers to the questions. I guess it was lucky that Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs, and Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941 because you know there was good luck involved that the pitchers they faced threw the ball where they could hit it. With your definition of "good luck involved" basically any accomplishment has an element of good luck involved. In which case you are simply pointing out the obvious, it would be like saying "and his heart was beating when he hit that home run, or answered that question". By adding a qualifier that is present in every activity, you are not making an observation but simply trying to denigrate the accomplishment.
Robb
Just steveK going down in flames on his original take , he packs a parachute when he flies but he won't jump , he just stays in that flaming airplane as it augers straight into the ground. .
Sure it would be much simpler for him to just say "whoops , I guess I was wrong about that guy " but for the rest of us its would be less entertaining .
@stevek said:
I've read where he bets heavy on the daily doubles...if he misses just one of these in one of those close contests, his streak ends. Perhaps it could have been early.
So while it's obvious that he's got tremendous skill at the game, it's also obvious that he's been lucky as well.
Agreed. He has been lucky that all of the daily doubles have ended in his favor. He seems to succeed on all of the hard questions. Not to jinx him, but perhaps he will slip up on an easy question someday.
Ken Jennings was dethroned when he missed a question about H&R Block (answer was: Most of this firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year).
I didn't realize that about Ken Jennings, Sort of like that Jackie Gleason video as far as missing the easy one.
I was curious as to the losing response from Ken Jennings.
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In the end, after all the mind-bendingly tough answers like Leif Ericson, Johannes Kepler, George III and Ecuador (the clue: "a Spanish dictionary defines it as 'Circulo maximo que equidista de los polos de la Tierra,"') it was a plain old accounting firm that finally brought down Ken Jennings, the "Jeopardy!" champion, ending the longest winning streak in game show history.
Answer: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year.
On last night's show Mr. Jennings responded, "What is Fed Ex?," while his opponent Nancy Zerg, a Realtor from Ventura, Calif., answered correctly, "What is H&R Block?" And so, after 75 shows, 2,700 correct responses and more than $2.5 million in winnings, Mr. Jennings -- a software engineer from Salt Lake City who became a smiling, brainy pop-culture hero during his winning streak -- finally put down his buzzer.
@fergie23 said:
So it is lucky that he knows the answers to the questions. I guess it was lucky that Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs, and Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941 because you know there was good luck involved that the pitchers they faced threw the ball where they could hit it. With your definition of "good luck involved" basically any accomplishment has an element of good luck involved. In which case you are simply pointing out the obvious, it would be like saying "and his heart was beating when he hit that home run, or answered that question". By adding a qualifier that is present in every activity, you are not making an observation but simply trying to denigrate the accomplishment.
Robb
Just steveK going down in flames on his original take , he packs a parachute when he flies but he won't jump , he just stays in that flaming airplane as it augers straight into the ground. .
Sure it would be much simpler for him to just say "whoops , I guess I was wrong about that guy " but for the rest of us its would be less entertaining .
Bronco - Nobody can top you being entertaining on Sports Talk.
@stevek said:
I was curious as to the losing response from Ken Jennings.
(pasted)
In the end, after all the mind-bendingly tough answers like Leif Ericson, Johannes Kepler, George III and Ecuador (the clue: "a Spanish dictionary defines it as 'Circulo maximo que equidista de los polos de la Tierra,"') it was a plain old accounting firm that finally brought down Ken Jennings, the "Jeopardy!" champion, ending the longest winning streak in game show history.
Answer: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year.
On last night's show Mr. Jennings responded, "What is Fed Ex?," while his opponent Nancy Zerg, a Realtor from Ventura, Calif., answered correctly, "What is H&R Block?" And so, after 75 shows, 2,700 correct responses and more than $2.5 million in winnings, Mr. Jennings -- a software engineer from Salt Lake City who became a smiling, brainy pop-culture hero during his winning streak -- finally put down his buzzer.
H&R Block contacted Jennings shortly after this episode and offered him free tax service for life, apparently so he would never forget their name again.
Is 'Jeopardy' prodigy James Holzhauer drawing interest from MLB front offices?
James Holzhauer has a unique set of skills.
The professional sports gambler — who’s so good he’s been blackballed from betting at some Las Vegas casinos — has rewritten the “Jeopardy!” playbook with an aggressive, analytical style that’s earned him more than $1.582 million over 20 shows.
That adds up to $79,100 per episode, or $158,200 per hour if we’re considering the full 30-minute air time of an episode of the game show.
Not a bad way to make a living.
Holzhauer’s baseball dreams
It turns out that gambling wasn’t his first career choice. As he relayed to Marc Carig of The Athletic, Holzhauer, like many young sports fans, had dreams of working in an MLB front office when he pursued a degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois.
When the low pay and entry-point into that world proved to be an obstacle, Holzhauer looked to gambling and has apparently done well for himself.
He’s definitely done well for himself on the game-show circuit, and continues to do so.
“Baseball was my goal from a young age, but gambling had significantly fewer barriers to entry,” Holzhauer told The Athletic. ... When I discovered I could make real money by applying the same statistical techniques, I knew it was the life for me.”
It’s not the first time Holzhauer has mentioned his baseball dreams.
I'd say he is successful because he is employing all of the following tactics:
1) Starting out with the higher dollar questions
2) Having perfect timing buzzing in
3) Constantly jumping to other categories (I think that throws off other contestants)
4) Answering quickly and moving to the next question quickly (I think the shows he has been on the board is cleared almost every time and more questions = more money)
5) Wagering very high on daily doubles (sometimes within 10 minutes he is out of reach)
6) Wagering very high on final jeopardy
7) Staying very calm (his voice doesn't vary much)
And obviously knowing the answers to a very broad range of topics.
He came back yesterday and won again. Wagered 40k on Final Jep. He jokingly said to Alex he majored in poker in college. Alex has only touched upon James gambling ways very few times in his meet/greet sessions during the break in the game. I don't think Alex wants to glorify that aspect of James life.
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@BLUEJAYWAY said:
He came back yesterday and won again. Wagered 40k on Final Jep. He jokingly said to Alex he majored in poker in college. Alex has only touched upon James gambling ways very few times in his meet/greet sessions during the break in the game. I don't think Alex wants to glorify that aspect of James life.
Yes, Alex may not wish to glorify it, but others will.
I think the reason Holzhauer may be "drawing interest from MLB front offices" is because of his sports gambling combined with his now fame from Jeopardy.
As sports gambling becomes legal in more and more states, one way or the other, MLB will be getting a piece of that pie. A MLB team would likely use him as a spokesman of some sort for their gambling interests.
Frankly, i think a sports gambling site may offer Holzhauer more money than a MLB team might. It's not hard to envision Holzhauer doing game picks for the site, and gamblers tuning in to bet his picks at the gambling website.
Perhaps the gambling website will also offer Holzhauer an affiliate commission position whereby he gets a direct piece of the action off the gamblers wagers.
However it all plays out, the financial future is certainly bright for James Holzhauer.
@VikingDude said:
I'd say he is successful because he is employing all of the following tactics:
3) Constantly jumping to other categories (I think that throws off other contestants)
5) Wagering very high on daily doubles (sometimes within 10 minutes he is out of reach)
6) Wagering very high on final jeopardy
And obviously knowing the answers to a very broad range of topics.
These are his most successful strategies IMO. It is very true that 10 minutes into the game, he is already out of reach by the other contestants.
It's also true that others are copying his tactics. His closest opponent was consistently correct, wagered big on final Jeopardy, won $54k, but still lost. He could go on for quite a while. It will take a perfect storm to defeat him.
I haven't watched any of it, but while surfing Youtube in the other selections area to the right of the screen when you're watching a video, for the past few days they are sometimes showing the final Jeopardy portion of the show, so I clicked it.
Two days ago was a very easy movie answer, and yesterday was ridiculously easy. The answer (paraphrase) This state which was against abolition in 1863, became divided into two states because of that. I mean if you can't write "What is Virginia" on that one, you probably haven't been living in this country very long.
So it seems as if Jeopardy may feel it's in their best interest for ratings to keep Holzhauer's streak going and helping him win big jackpots, by perhaps dumbing down the final Jeopardy answers? That is unless he winds up missing a relatively easy one like Ken Jennings did.
Maybe the next final Jeopardy answer should be, "He is pictured on a Topps 1962 baseball card which illustrates his feat in the 1961 season of breaking Babe Ruth's single season home run record." Would Holzhauer write, "Who is Mickey Mantle?" LOL
So it seems as if Jeopardy may feel it's in their best interest for ratings to keep Holzhauer's streak going and helping him win big jackpots, by perhaps dumbing down the final Jeopardy answers? That is unless he winds up missing a relatively easy one like Ken Jennings did.
I was thinking the same thing. The final jeopardy questions the last 2 nights just seemed too easy/common sense.
Just my opinion, I think he might get bored/unchallenged after a while and either tank the game or just withdraw from competition, say, at his 100th win or so.
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@stevek said:
I haven't watched any of it, but while surfing Youtube in the other selections area to the right of the screen when you're watching a video, for the past few days they are sometimes showing the final Jeopardy portion of the show, so I clicked it.
Two days ago was a very easy movie answer, and yesterday was ridiculously easy. The answer (paraphrase) This state which was against abolition in 1863, became divided into two states because of that. I mean if you can't write "What is Virginia" on that one, you probably haven't been living in this country very long.
So it seems as if Jeopardy may feel it's in their best interest for ratings to keep Holzhauer's streak going and helping him win big jackpots, by perhaps dumbing down the final Jeopardy answers? That is unless he winds up missing a relatively easy one like Ken Jennings did.
Maybe the next final Jeopardy answer should be, "He is pictured on a Topps 1962 baseball card which illustrates his feat in the 1961 season of breaking Babe Ruth's single season home run record." Would Holzhauer write, "Who is Mickey Mantle?" LOL
The thing is....it's just as easy for the rest of them also!
They say that all good things must come to an end. Holzhauer sure had a helluva run.
Interesting that Holzhauer got timid with his Final Jeopardy wager. He got the answer correct. But as it turned out, the size of his wager didn't even matter.
If Holzhauer would have bet it all, his total would have been $46,800. However the winner knows the Final Jeopardy math strategy. Since she also got the answer correct, it brought her total to $46,801. Holzhauer would have still lost by one dollar.
I had hoped he would of eclipsed Ken Jennings record total. Came w/in $60k. I remarked to my girlfriend 2 1/2 weeks ago that when he loses it will be to a woman. Guess his ending is my fault. Sorry James.
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@BLUEJAYWAY said:
I had hoped he would of eclipsed Ken Jennings record total. Came w/in $60k. I remarked to my girlfriend 2 1/2 weeks ago that when he loses it will be to a woman. Guess his ending is my fault. Sorry James.
The women always take down the giants. Nancy Zerg defeated Ken Jennings.
@stevek said:
They say that all good things must come to an end. Holzhauer sure had a helluva run.
Interesting that Holzhauer got timid with his Final Jeopardy wager. He got the answer correct. But as it turned out, the size of his wager didn't even matter.
He wasn't timid. He actually bet perfectly.
If the leader gets the question right, she wins, so his bet amount doesn't matter.
If she gets it wrong, there are a couple scenarios:
1) He gets it right. In that case, he wins, since she will surely have bet enough to fall behind him. In this scenario, what the 3rd place guy answers doesn't matter.
Here's the important one:
2) He gets it wrong but the 3rd place guy gets it right. Holzhauer bet the maximum possible ($1399) to still win under this scenario. In this scenario, the 3rd place guy doubles up but Holzhauer would still have $1 more. This is also the only scenario where the amount he bet could impact the outcome of the game.
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I haven't watched any of it, but I read it was either yesterday or the day before, he just won over 50k on one show, but only beat the second place finisher by $18, to keep the streak going.
Good skill mixed with good luck is a winning combination.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind man. Translation:Long as you win by a dollar is as good as a thousand.
100k win tonight.
Side note on this particular show. The second place finisher with I think it was $53,999 was the highest losing total in show history.
This win wasn't luck. James led the entire game and only had to get the final jeopardy question correct to win. The size of the win was of no consequence. You or anyone who has any interest in the game Jeopardy or trivia games in general should tune in. His knowledge and speed on the signaling button are phenomenal. Of course, I'm sure youtube is probably full of video clips by now.
Good luck in that situation was getting the right "answer" at the right time. If on that final Jeopardy answer, the sports gambler didn't know the "question" and his opponent did, then that would have been the end of the streak. There is some good luck involved in that.
By that logic, if you don’t know the answer to a question, you’re just “unlucky”, and not uninformed.
Ralph Kramden wasn't unlucky, just uninformed, right? 🙄
SteveK explained to all of us how this guy was never going to amount to anything ...... weeks ago. 21 days 1.6 million dollars later it turns out he is just lucky
Never amount to anything from sports gambling, in which he never did amount to anything with that.
His skill at Jeopardy is obvious. However to get a nice streak going such as this, there is without question a factor of good luck involved.
This is the unfortunate result of Holzhauer's aggressive/successful style of play. Several of his competitors have had remarkable scores of their own, scores that would have wiped the floor with any other field at any other time period in the game, and yet these players get unnoticed/unrewarded due to Holzhauer's accomplishments.
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I haven't watched any of it. But let's say in one of the closer contests, with his aggressive style, I've read where he bets heavy on the daily doubles...if he misses just one of these in one of those close contests, his streak ends. Perhaps it could have been early.
So while it's obvious that he's got tremendous skill at the game, it's also obvious that he's been lucky as well.
It's a different venue and everything, but it reminds me a little bit of the World Series of Poker, main event. Whereby the players who win the "races", the "coin flips", getting the right cards at the right time throughout the tournament, are the ones who get to the final table, and one of them ends up winning.
Often at this poker main event the players at the final table aren't the best poker players. Yes, they are good players, but for sure they have been lucky players with this particular tourney. I recall some years back one of these players, who wound up finishing second, said that he was only the fourth best player just in his home poker game with friends - LOL.
Agreed. He has been lucky that all of the daily doubles have ended in his favor. He seems to succeed on all of the hard questions. Not to jinx him, but perhaps he will slip up on an easy question someday.
Ken Jennings was dethroned when he missed a question about H&R Block (answer was: Most of this firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year).
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So it is lucky that he knows the answers to the questions. I guess it was lucky that Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs, and Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941 because you know there was good luck involved that the pitchers they faced threw the ball where they could hit it. With your definition of "good luck involved" basically any accomplishment has an element of good luck involved. In which case you are simply pointing out the obvious, it would be like saying "and his heart was beating when he hit that home run, or answered that question". By adding a qualifier that is present in every activity, you are not making an observation but simply trying to denigrate the accomplishment.
Robb
I understand what you are saying. I guess I was just venting because Adam Levin racked up almost $54k, and what does he have to show for it? A few minutes of fame and $2k. That makes it seem that his accomplishment was denigrated. I'm stuck on the fact that he could have bought a 1952 Mantle PSA 5 had he won the $54k, assuming that he would be a card collector
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Just steveK going down in flames on his original take , he packs a parachute when he flies but he won't jump , he just stays in that flaming airplane as it augers straight into the ground.
.
Sure it would be much simpler for him to just say "whoops , I guess I was wrong about that guy " but for the rest of us its would be less entertaining .
I didn't realize that about Ken Jennings, Sort of like that Jackie Gleason video as far as missing the easy one.
I was curious as to the losing response from Ken Jennings.
(pasted)
In the end, after all the mind-bendingly tough answers like Leif Ericson, Johannes Kepler, George III and Ecuador (the clue: "a Spanish dictionary defines it as 'Circulo maximo que equidista de los polos de la Tierra,"') it was a plain old accounting firm that finally brought down Ken Jennings, the "Jeopardy!" champion, ending the longest winning streak in game show history.
Answer: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year.
On last night's show Mr. Jennings responded, "What is Fed Ex?," while his opponent Nancy Zerg, a Realtor from Ventura, Calif., answered correctly, "What is H&R Block?" And so, after 75 shows, 2,700 correct responses and more than $2.5 million in winnings, Mr. Jennings -- a software engineer from Salt Lake City who became a smiling, brainy pop-culture hero during his winning streak -- finally put down his buzzer.
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H&R Block contacted Jennings shortly after this episode and offered him free tax service for life, apparently so he would never forget their name again.
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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/is-jeopardy-prodigy-james-holzhauer-drawing-interest-from-mlb-front-offices-225444205.html
Is 'Jeopardy' prodigy James Holzhauer drawing interest from MLB front offices?
James Holzhauer has a unique set of skills.
The professional sports gambler — who’s so good he’s been blackballed from betting at some Las Vegas casinos — has rewritten the “Jeopardy!” playbook with an aggressive, analytical style that’s earned him more than $1.582 million over 20 shows.
That adds up to $79,100 per episode, or $158,200 per hour if we’re considering the full 30-minute air time of an episode of the game show.
Not a bad way to make a living.
Holzhauer’s baseball dreams
It turns out that gambling wasn’t his first career choice. As he relayed to Marc Carig of The Athletic, Holzhauer, like many young sports fans, had dreams of working in an MLB front office when he pursued a degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois.
When the low pay and entry-point into that world proved to be an obstacle, Holzhauer looked to gambling and has apparently done well for himself.
He’s definitely done well for himself on the game-show circuit, and continues to do so.
“Baseball was my goal from a young age, but gambling had significantly fewer barriers to entry,” Holzhauer told The Athletic. ... When I discovered I could make real money by applying the same statistical techniques, I knew it was the life for me.”
It’s not the first time Holzhauer has mentioned his baseball dreams.
James got “lucky” again with another rout, over $82,000 tonight and almost $1.7 million so far.
He will be off for 2 weeks. Teachers Tourney for those 2 weeks.
I don't seem him losing.
Alec Trebek is likely retiring after one more season, and this guy could run the season...he's that good!
Erik
Alex has cancer I heard
For those interested/following James returns this Monday, May 20th.
I'd say he is successful because he is employing all of the following tactics:
1) Starting out with the higher dollar questions
2) Having perfect timing buzzing in
3) Constantly jumping to other categories (I think that throws off other contestants)
4) Answering quickly and moving to the next question quickly (I think the shows he has been on the board is cleared almost every time and more questions = more money)
5) Wagering very high on daily doubles (sometimes within 10 minutes he is out of reach)
6) Wagering very high on final jeopardy
7) Staying very calm (his voice doesn't vary much)
And obviously knowing the answers to a very broad range of topics.
Like him or not, the guy is changing the game. Future winners will copy the style.
He came back yesterday and won again. Wagered 40k on Final Jep. He jokingly said to Alex he majored in poker in college. Alex has only touched upon James gambling ways very few times in his meet/greet sessions during the break in the game. I don't think Alex wants to glorify that aspect of James life.
Yes, Alex may not wish to glorify it, but others will.
I think the reason Holzhauer may be "drawing interest from MLB front offices" is because of his sports gambling combined with his now fame from Jeopardy.
As sports gambling becomes legal in more and more states, one way or the other, MLB will be getting a piece of that pie. A MLB team would likely use him as a spokesman of some sort for their gambling interests.
Frankly, i think a sports gambling site may offer Holzhauer more money than a MLB team might. It's not hard to envision Holzhauer doing game picks for the site, and gamblers tuning in to bet his picks at the gambling website.
Perhaps the gambling website will also offer Holzhauer an affiliate commission position whereby he gets a direct piece of the action off the gamblers wagers.
However it all plays out, the financial future is certainly bright for James Holzhauer.
These are his most successful strategies IMO. It is very true that 10 minutes into the game, he is already out of reach by the other contestants.
It's also true that others are copying his tactics. His closest opponent was consistently correct, wagered big on final Jeopardy, won $54k, but still lost. He could go on for quite a while. It will take a perfect storm to defeat him.
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Will be going for 2 million in total winnings Thurs. or Fri.
I haven't watched any of it, but while surfing Youtube in the other selections area to the right of the screen when you're watching a video, for the past few days they are sometimes showing the final Jeopardy portion of the show, so I clicked it.
Two days ago was a very easy movie answer, and yesterday was ridiculously easy. The answer (paraphrase) This state which was against abolition in 1863, became divided into two states because of that. I mean if you can't write "What is Virginia" on that one, you probably haven't been living in this country very long.
So it seems as if Jeopardy may feel it's in their best interest for ratings to keep Holzhauer's streak going and helping him win big jackpots, by perhaps dumbing down the final Jeopardy answers? That is unless he winds up missing a relatively easy one like Ken Jennings did.
Maybe the next final Jeopardy answer should be, "He is pictured on a Topps 1962 baseball card which illustrates his feat in the 1961 season of breaking Babe Ruth's single season home run record." Would Holzhauer write, "Who is Mickey Mantle?" LOL
I was thinking the same thing. The final jeopardy questions the last 2 nights just seemed too easy/common sense.
Just my opinion, I think he might get bored/unchallenged after a while and either tank the game or just withdraw from competition, say, at his 100th win or so.
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Close one tonight. Slow start in the first half.
<<< In one account, this song began as directions written out for composer Billy Strayhorn to Duke Ellington's home in Harlem >>>
You gotta be kidding me...but Holzhauer and the second place finisher got it right.
The closest I got to the right question was that after i saw the question, I had heard of the song. LOL
That was an easy one. Take The A Train was Duke Ellington’s signature number.
The category was Jazz Classics.
Frankly, i can't stand jazz. I'd rather listen to Grote sing the Mets theme song, that's how much I hate jazz.
You mean “Meet the Mets”?
Meet the Mets is a cute theme song, it's just that anything Grote sings sounds horrible.
He broke the 2 million mark tonight.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Ho-Hum. 32 wins and $2.46 mil in winnings. He'll probably pass Jennings for high $ on Monday.
and it took Jennings how long to amass his $$$$$$, while this guy has done it in only months.
The thing is....it's just as easy for the rest of them also!
We'll see him again on all of the tournament of champions shows. It was a good run.
They say that all good things must come to an end. Holzhauer sure had a helluva run.
Interesting that Holzhauer got timid with his Final Jeopardy wager. He got the answer correct. But as it turned out, the size of his wager didn't even matter.
If Holzhauer would have bet it all, his total would have been $46,800. However the winner knows the Final Jeopardy math strategy. Since she also got the answer correct, it brought her total to $46,801. Holzhauer would have still lost by one dollar.
DAMN!! Hate to see him go.
I had hoped he would of eclipsed Ken Jennings record total. Came w/in $60k. I remarked to my girlfriend 2 1/2 weeks ago that when he loses it will be to a woman. Guess his ending is my fault.
Sorry James.
The women always take down the giants. Nancy Zerg defeated Ken Jennings.
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He wasn't timid. He actually bet perfectly.
If the leader gets the question right, she wins, so his bet amount doesn't matter.
If she gets it wrong, there are a couple scenarios:
1) He gets it right. In that case, he wins, since she will surely have bet enough to fall behind him. In this scenario, what the 3rd place guy answers doesn't matter.
Here's the important one:
2) He gets it wrong but the 3rd place guy gets it right. Holzhauer bet the maximum possible ($1399) to still win under this scenario. In this scenario, the 3rd place guy doubles up but Holzhauer would still have $1 more. This is also the only scenario where the amount he bet could impact the outcome of the game.
His bet was 100% correct.