How James Holzhauer Broke Jeopardy - Cheddar Explains

James Holzhauer is on track to be the highest winning Jeopardy contestant of all time. How is he doing this? James is professional gambler and his game-play strategy proves it. Cheddar explains how James is controlling the Jeopardy board.

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[manickn]

All technique aside he has to be exceptionally knowledgeable for it to work out.

[greenleafwater]

James must be from the generation that played jeopardy in school.
You _always_ start from the bottom.

[amberagain]

He’s been donating money to charities in Nevada left and right. Great guy

[Spoon]

Imagine studying for months only to get in the same game as this guy

[FFCloud]

Dear god, the fact that Alex is a factor, by how he speaks...

That's some meta level game design right there

[cyrilio]

I don't even watch jeapardy but this was very interessting

[Saiyza]

Usual contestant: "It's already an honor just to be here. I'll go with the motions"
James: "I want...MONEY"

[mattbarker]

That last sentence was prophetic. He truly did change the game - about 50% of players hunt for daily doubles now, and we've had an enormous stretch of super champions just in the last year alone. James really changed jeopardy from a game show to a sport, almost singlehandedly.

[AvailableUsernameTed]

Pick two Mongolian Yak herders as opponents. Make all questions about herding Yaks.

[Call-me-Al]

The name of the game is Jeopardy, not Trivia Relaxation Hour. An aggressive play style sounds pretty natural for a game like that.

[concars]

This is why Vegas kicks out card-counters. James is too smart for the game, what a tank, I hope he keeps it rolling for a long time

[StewartUSAF]

He has a math degree. He's ruthlessly applying game theory and probability to Jeopardy. It's beautiful.

[Matoro-wphy]

I saw him at about 900k, just watching him, thinking "wtf?"

[StoryOfSam]

They should have a month where they only bring on contestants who lost to James

[burgos]

Imagine signing up for jeopardy and then ending up going against James

[zacknimkoff]

I remember in high school how everyone always started at the bottom, idk how it took people this long to figure that out in the real thing

[vigneshrk]

how to be james holzhouer:


step 1. know the answer
step 2. all this other stuff.

[PillowEgg]

He simply discovered the metagame behind it all.

[greaty]

The people going against him had to watch him win for like 20 days, knowing they have no chance lmao

[derbyjr]

“Working from the bottom of the board up”
High School Student: Could this man be one of my people?