The previous record-holder was Larissa Kelly’s who earned $655,930 in regular play. The California resident overtook the previous winnings high from a female contestant with a cool $706,800. The entire episode is streaming on Jeopardy’s YouTube channel until June 7, by the way, so that we may all relive Holzhauer’s inevitable defeat.Schneider’s latest Jeopardy! victory took place on Christmas Eve when she broke yet another record. She bet $20,201 in the last round - while Holzhauer bet a meager $1,399, uncharacteristically low for him. Perhaps more crucially, however, Boettcher was willing to make a high wager during Final Jeopardy. “I don’t need to be cautious around that.” “I knew going in that Daily Double hunting was something that I could do and feel confident doing,” Boettcher told the New York Times in a pre-air interview. She frequently beat Holzhauer to the buzzer, and sought out Daily Doubles, a true Holzhauer protégé. Combined with the fact that he rarely answered a clue incorrectly, these strategies made him seem nearly unstoppable.īut Bettcher used many of these same strategies against him in her first winning game. And Holzhauer typically placed very high bets during Final Jeopardy, the clincher round where players wage their earnings on one last response. He was also exceptionally quick at buzzing in, helping him beat his competitors to the board.
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But the pro gambler’s calculated strategy relied on hunting for Daily Doubles (which give Jeopardy contestants a chance to double their earnings) and betting big whenever he found one this approach frequently helped him establish an early and outsize lead. Just like all top Jeopardy contestants, Holzhauer had an impressive knack for trivia. It may have been Holzhauer’s own tactical methods that did him in. Jeopardy champion James Holzhauer’s phenomenal winning streak, explainedĮmma Boettcher, the Chicago-area librarian who beat Holzhauer, racked up $46,801 for the easy win. (The average Jeopardy contestant takes home $19,980 per game.) For context, his 32 victories yielded an average take home of almost $77,000 per game, and he now holds Jeopardy’s record for highest single-game total with $131,127.
In his 33rd and final game, Holzhauer emerged from the Final Jeopardy round with just $24,799 to his name - a pretty low total for Holzhauer, who’s become known for his consistently high earnings. Instead, Holzhauer leaves the show with $2,462,216 in earnings - about $60,000 shy of Jennings’s record. Many fans expected Holzhauer to unseat Jeopardy’s winningest contestant, Ken Jennings, who earned $2,522,700 in a 74-game winning streak in 2004. But it’s undoubtedly something of a disappointment to many Jeopardy viewers who were eager to see to see a long-held record finally surpassed. This news may excite the many Jeopardy competitors who suffered devastating losses to Holzhauer, or viewers who grew tired of him dominating - and potentially “ breaking” - the game.
The win went to Emma Boettcher, and Holzhauer’s loss put an end to his history-making six-week tenure, during which he became the second-highest grossing Jeopardy winner ever. Holzhauer, whose big bets and knowledge base garnered him national recognition and more than $2 million in prize money, landed in second place during the long-running game show’s June 3 episode.
After 32 consecutive victories, Jeopardy champion James Holzhauer’s record-breaking winning streak has come to an end.
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