The 670 Score: James participates in a quiz show game on this Chicago sports radio podcast Vulture Interview: Jeopardy James Holzhauer on Strategy, Alex Trebek… Here are a few links where James has actually interacted: ![]() There are well over a million and a half results for a google search on “James Holzhauer Jeopardy” so you’ll find plenty to read about him. On Facebook, “Jeopardy James” is dedicated to his appearances. James said he’s not sure the Las Vegas bookies will be so happy to accept his action anymore, but he’ll cross that bridge when he comes to it. During the chat on, Trebek told James he’s a celebrity now and asked how he would handle it. Media Coverage: Of course, James is now the hot topic in game show news. James has his own statistics page on now! James Holzhauer Tracker These are his scores in his last game: No He came in second and got the $2,000 consolation prize. But it was not to be: James lost to Emma Boettcher. James was only $58,484 away from surpassing Ken Jennings’ 74-game winnings of $2,520,700 when he played Game 33 on Monday, June 3rd. The last week of May turned out to be James’ last stand with 5 runaway games and $396,681 to show for it: No He went over the $2 million mark on Friday, May 24th. ![]() In his 6th week, James didn’t have a runaway in his 26th game when he ran into a tough challenge from Nate Scheffey, but James prevailed and added $374,527 more to his winnings. James added $415,421 to his winnings by the end of the week. James couldn’t make it a runaway but managed to win by $18. In his 5th week, Adam Levin gave James a run for the money. James wrote down his last shoutout (Hi Tuesday) on Friday, the 26th and the “no shoutouts” rule went into effect on April 29th. He went over the $1 million mark on April 23rd. Indeed, on the previous day, when he beat his own one-day record with that $60,013 bet in Final Jeopardy!, he wrote “This is for you Granny □” under his FJ! response. When he bet the $6,013 in second Daily Double on April 18th, he looked upwards and touched his heart, leading me to think it was his beloved grandmother’s birthday. James called it a long climb to beat Ken Jennings 74-game run and $2.5M+ winnings, and it’s an even longer climb to beat Brad Rutter’s all time $4.6M+ winnings.Ī quick look at the Games of James: James likes to bet numbers that are special to him and you can see his favorite bets are his wedding anniversary (9/8/12) and his daughter’s birthday (11/9/14). In his 12th game, he topped Dave Madden’s All-Time Winnings including Tournaments (without ever having been in one!!). He surpassed Dave Madden and Julia Collins in highest total winnings for regular season wins and broke too many other records to enumerate here. In Week 3 (Apr 15-19), James broke his own highest payday on Wednesday and by the end of the week, he had 5 of the 10 spots in highest one-day winnings. He achieved all that in 7 games! The (R) after the winnings signifies a runaway going into Final Jeopardy! No 4 in Jeopardy’s Hall of Fame for Highest Winnings (Regular Season Play). By the end of the week, at $415,035 he was No. The next day, he smashed Roger Craig’s longstanding $77,000 record for highest one-day winnings. In Week 2 (Apr 8-12, 2019), James exceeded Eric’s S35 record with a $50K+ payday on Monday. ![]() Was he really the next big champion teased by a Jeopardy commercial that said “records are made to be broken”?Īlex Trebek often says he likes to see the players win big and both of those wins exceeded $35,000, although neither surpassed Eric R. The next day, James did not have a runaway and doubts crept in. When James Holzhauer appeared on the Jeopardy stage for his first game on Thursday, April 4, 2019, some viewers already knew him as a formidable player from his appearance on The Chase and were not surprised by his runaway winnings.
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