I'd bet he's focused upon timing the buzzer....the answer is easy? I can "speed read".... do they see the question also? Well....that's how I'd win a million $ for playing a game for less than 7 hours....ea$y pea$y ;)....

Dude is $PECIAL....

As I posted earlier, I'm beginning to think that's part of his strategy too. His confidence is so high that he feels the odds of knowing the correct response are overwhelmingly in his favor. He's a pro gambler after all...it's all about the odds.

The players see the clues same as we do. And they do try to quickly pick out some key word(s) as Alex reads them before turning their attention to the lights signaling that the 'buzzers' are active. I think James must be totally focused on the lights and only listens to the clues being read instead of trying to read them himself.

Sorry 'bout that....Funny that I came up with that too....

You, me, and Jim....great minds thinkin' alike I suppose...good thing he doesn't have us to compete with....cause we're on to him now ;)

:D:D Funny but sort of sad. Also true.

Close one tonight. Kind of a weak FJ clue I thought.

I thought it odd James wasn't going for the 1K and 2k clues as much.

Toying with his prey?

I thought it was cool that he twice calculated his winnings to match his wedding day or something like that.

Guys a freak.

It was a really weak FJ clue. I still got it wrong.

Finally had comoetition that was fast on the button. Good show today.


Maybe it was weak to help the competition.

Some little know facts about Jeopardy........

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/television/jeopardy-bans-wagers-referencing-sex-nazis-and-satan

That was the best anyone's ever done against James by far. Not only was that guy quick on the button, he also had the balls to bet big on DJs and he risked over $30K on FJ.

That is the only way anyone will beat him... go big or go home !!
Seeing contestants hitting DJ and then betting the usual $2K when playing him just makes me think WTF are you doing, playing to be the $2000 2nd place winner cause you aren't going to beat him doing that ??

It looked to me like James was sandbagging just to make things interesting.

Oops.

Then he got serious and walked away again. His FJ wager was exactly just enough to win.

James did applaud the guy’s pluck earlier, though.

"False Flag" was the DJ clue he got right earlier that got him into position to compete at the end.

I think the whole world was pulling for him to get that one right....lol.....

:D:D I wonder if he is getting bored ?? Even winning gets old. Probably not.

So is he still standing?

Around $92k today.

Yep...won over $90K today. Opponents both struck out on FJ and were crushed once again.

I noticed that in the first round of both today's and yesterday's matches, the single DD was in one of the $1000 squares. Coincidence? Or is the show trying to mess with James' strategy of going for the high-dollar picks first? Forcing him to play the DD so early in the round keeps his score from going off the charts early on and could maybe give the other players a little hope.

Could be but it does not matter. He is going to have to have a really bad day for someone to beat him.

That's for sure, although he bested Adam Levin in Monday's game by only $18. Won his 18th match by $18...deliberate, or just an odd coincidence? Not only is he absolutely thrashing the other players, he also plays games with the numbers...like using significant dates for his DD bets. This guy has almost superhuman recall of the most obscure trivia...he's like a human Wikipedia.


From James Holzhauer's hometown newspaper, The Naperville Sun:

"According to Andy Saunders on The Jeopardy Fan, Levin’s $53,999 was the highest-ever regular-play, non-winning score in the history of the show, and is the 21st-highest final score of all time. Holzhauer’s $54,017 is 20th.
The previous record was held by Michael Cudahy, who won $44,400 on June 25, 2004. Ironically, it was the same day “Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings had his 18th win toward his streak that would end at 74 games.
Saunders also mentioned that Monday’s game was the first time Holzhauer bet $10,117 on a Daily Double, making sure to say “Vegas Strong” in reference to the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017."

Another $100k day. Now over $1.5 million.

Usually, people with his kind of mind don’t have a sense of humor, which he, of course does have.
It’s actually scary to think somebody can have such a memory, such lightening calculation speed AND a sense of humor.

I hope he doesn’t crash and burn like a lotta beautiful minds seem to.

I wonder what a usual day for him is like.