James Holzhauer won another game on Thursday night’s Jeopardy! broadcast, his 11th in a row, although he “only” won $74,133, a relatively low total for the professional sports gambler from Las Vegas during his jaw-dropping run.
His strategy — starting off with the more expensive clues first, betting extremely high amounts on Daily Doubles and also being right a lot — has led him to break the record for single-day winnings, to then break his own record and to shoot up to second on the all-time money list behind the legendary Ken Jennings.
So how does Jennings — who won 74 straight games and won $2,520,700 in the process — feel about the player who’s creating the buzz only matched by Jennings himself?
He also made a really good point about betting on Holzhauer:
It really is “absolutely insane” what Holzhauer is doing, and if you watch the episodes, you can see how it throws off opponents who have to go for the big money clues and watch as Holzhauer nails the answers. Before they can blink, he’s got too much money for them to catch up.
