Jeopardy = $110K in ONE DAY
 

We record and watch Jeopardy every day, have for years and have never seen anyone like him.

A professional gambler and gamble he does on Jeopardy. Doesn't seem to be any subject he doesn't know and his bets on Double and Final Jeopardy are off the charts (yesterday he had $43K and on a double jeopardy he wagered $25K of it - not unusual at all for him).

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/09/entertainment/jeopardy-contestant-new-record/index.html

The first double jeopardy early on he made a "gambler" gesture shoving both hands forward - all in!

All $11K. And he won!

Cajones!

We also record and watch every night.

He's a bit of a strange dude. His smile scares my wife. I'm thinking he's somewhere on the autism spectrum or something. He seems to have remembered every fact on every subject he's learned in his life.

He also starts by picking $1000 answers first to get a big lead early.

We'll be watching tonight.

I saw a quick biography on him, and that's not a stretch at all. One thing I will say is they talked to a couple sportsbooks guys in Vegas about him and they all said he is well respected, treats everyone kindly and is very business like (not a surprise).

On his first couple days, I thought he was trying to look crazy with his strange wagers.
Then on a later day, he explained why.
The bartender that was a recent big winner..is more crazy.

He seems to revel in crushing the opponents.

On Tuesday's 'all in' double jeopardy bet, he was behind the guy in the # 3 slot, and he was $4,000 behind him, the #3 bet a jeopardy for $4,000 , missed it, then they were almost tied. Two clues later, James found the second jeopardy question and did the 'all in' motions for his $10,000+. Alex was like.......okkkkaaaaay.

Yesterday was epic - he purposely raised the bar to an unattainable height.

Bill K

Maybe this guy is having a "Groundhog Day" experience ;)

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The last really big Jeopardy winner I remember seeing was Ken Jennings back in 2004. He won 74 consecutive games and bagged over $3M in prize money.

As an aside, Leslie Frates (the woman contestant in the Jeopardy episode that Bill Murray's watching in the movie) was the guest speaker at a gathering I recently attended. She appeared on the show 15 times with total winnings of around $100K. Her talk about what it was like to audition and actually be a contestant was really quite interesting for a Jeopardy fan like me.

i saw it yesterday. Amazing. Will watch today. 20 minutes from now.

Couple of hours away on the west coast. No spoilers here please.

I guess he could be called a savant? There's a young pool player from Germany called that. Name: Joshua Filler. Was knocking off pros at age 15. Now early 20's, not ranked the best yet, but he's coming on.

I agree with you wife on the strange toothy smile. I'm thinking he picks the biggest $ answers (hardest ones) first to either grab the big money first or at least get it off the table quickly so the others don't get it or have a chance to work up to it. Pretty cagey dude.

Fun to watch. He sort of lucked out on his first all in bet yesterday. Only lost $3000 as it was very early in the round.

His percent of correct answers to wrong answers must be 98/2. Bet he has only missed maybe 3-4 per show.

A voracious reader with a near photographic memory?

The contestants are given the subject matters/categories well before the taping.

Not trying to down-play his skills...but knowing the area to study beforehand has to help.

Yes, he has a very unorthodox style of play. It's quite rare to see a player go for all the high-dollar 'answers' first...they almost always start at the top of the columns with the easier stuff. And risking big bucks with his all-in betting on double & final Jeopardy is pretty unusual too. I noticed that in last night's game, the other players were also going for the more difficult picks early on in an effort to keep up. I wonder if this guy's style will spark a sea-change in the way Jeopardy is played from now on.

It must be quite disheartening to go thru all the preliminary steps to become a contestant, then be picked for a game against a really sharp player like the current champ.

This happened the other night. The Champ kicks butt and wins over $50k and the losers barely got on the positive side of $0. That must suck to have all you friends and family watching and be steamrolled by this guy. :mad:

Kind of like entering an open pool tournament, looking at the brackets, and realizing that your first opponent is ranked #1 in the country. But hey, you get a close up seat to watch him run racks.

I was reading that is the Jeopardy game strategy. Go big first and accumulate cash. If a DD hits, even better. This strategy is it takes the high dollar questions out of contention early on.

I see Ken at my post office frequently.

Contestants have absolutely no idea what the categories will be. This is Ken Jennings response when asked about knowing the categories before hand so you can study up:

"I don't know where people get this idea, but I get asked this all the time. No, you don't see the categories until the second the viewers at home do. And then you're like, "$#%&, 'Hockey' again?!"