Jeopardy is rigged, right?
>Holzhauer is about to take first place in winnings
>Other two competitors are better than almost anyone else
>Gets beaten
I'm not saying that the whole thing is necessarily fake, but maybe Jeopardy deliberately put their best people on this particular episode, in order to beat Holzhauer.
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more likely they saw the broad areas where he was weaker and then just found contestants who were better at those things
James would have won if he didn't immediately get the first-round Daily Double.
>day he'll break the record
>against a person who memorized the trivial pursuit deck and another who wrote their master's thesis on jeopardy
>highest combined coryat of all time
I'm actually not that disappointed desu because I expect this chick will be at least a 5-time winner
He wasn't wrong its just he didn't bet enough. That's why he went over there and hi fived her because he respected her betting high.
The girl under-bet her second daily double. If she had been losing, she could have bet more, gotten it right, and passed James.
Number one reason the woman won was because she hit both daily doubles in the second round. Also he was getting beat to the buzzer on a number of questions, so either he was choking or perhaps it was the last match at the end of a long day and he was fatigued
She bet enough, that if she got it right, it wouldn't matter whether James got it right.
James probably made the right bet.
Of course they did. Geico can't just shill out 80k per episode.
So wait how much money did he leave with?
only $2,000 :(
Like $2.4 million.
The players were nothing special, it was just pure bad luck on the daily doubles. If James had gotten that first one later and could have built more money, or if she missed one of hers, he would have won.
He'll get his revenge in the ToC
After paying all the horseshit taxes he'll be responsible for in California and Nevada, he'll be lucky to have 1-1.5 mil and he's donating it all anyway.
>nothing special
>the girl literally wrote her master's thesis on jeopardy
>the guy literally memorized the trivial pursuit game
No, they were obviously exceptional people.
It's totally rigged. Guy who normally goes all in suddenly only bets $1200 in final jeopardy while losing, when going all in would have put him $400 over other person?
Just as bullshit as Trebeks Stage 4 cancer, which only 3 months later is suddenly going into remission. Excuse me? As someone who has dealt with cancer second hand, Stage 4 doesnt just go into remission after 3 months of treatments.
james was the fastest ever on the buzzer but he was consistently beaten by a woman and she got both daily doubles in double jeopardy. they gave him a bad buzzer
So he still had what he had the other day
Or what this morons saying
you're stupid, stop posting
And yet James still had a higher coryat score than both. They were solid but would have been crushed by James under different circumstances.
Nope.
He was behind her. Given her bet of $20,000, if she got the right answer, she was going to win, regardless of whether James got the right answer.
Given the bets, if she missed the question, James would have won. Even if James also got the question wrong.
James made the correct bet, as usual. He was just in a difficult situation against a good opponent.
actually it seems you are the retarded one.
have sex
all in would have put him 1 dollar below the winner
I'm not saying that the game is totally rigged. James probably had a chance. But I think they put their best candidates in this game, in order to defeat him.
The other thing they could possibly do is rig the game, so that she definitely got the daily doubles, and James didn't.
Based Emma did the same grad program that I'm in
And people say its not scripted lmao
>all the brainlets who dont understand how final jeopardy wagering works
She specifically bet in a way that made that happen.
>rigged
No, he just played against a player who wasn't a pussy (yet ironically had a pussy). How do you beat a guy who tries to maximize his gains and minimize his losses? Go full retard and bet high every single chance.
High-stakes Chads beat Bean Counters, Bean Counters beat Big Brains, Big Brains beat High-stakes Chads
Yeah, but it's still dumb, he was way behind and the other two are more likely to get the question right than wrong. He knows that he also is likely to get it correct so should have bet everything.
She didn't bet high every time. She only bet 5k on her second daily double.
She just played the game well (essentially like James did). She bet a lot when behind James, and bet a reasonable amount when ahead of him.
She was a genuinely good player, with a lot of skill in trivia. The other guy had a lot of trivia skill, too. Jeopardy definitely put their best people in this episode.
For what reason? It is in the networks interest to keep people like Holzhauer going. He brings in much more money for the show than he uses.
Nonsense. If he bet everything, he would have still lost.
With his current bet, if Emma had gotten it wrong, or both of them had gotten it wrong, James would have won. He made the right bet, but he was against a solid opponent, who had the lead (and thus a huge advantage), he was in a bad situation.
its just incels mad that their king lost
WHY WOULD HE BET ONLY 1399 IT'S NOT EVEN ENOUGH TO BEAT THE HIGHEST PERSON IF THEY BET 0
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Literally the only way he could've won is if the girl got the question wrong. He made the only bet that could've MAYBE saved him since having a cash lead in Jeopardy puts you at a massive disadvantage if the final question is easy
They're going to bring him back for the Tournament of Champions. They're certainly not done with him.
And I'm sure that this Emma person will get them a lot of attention, too.
The network just wanted him done before the season ended. They're going to have a big "Ken Jennings vs. James Holzhauer" showdown in some future show.
You want rigged? There's this tv quiz where you combine answers from a given list to questions asked asap. Guy stays in for a long time hauling in what could've been top tier cash. He picks the category sports as his final round and ends up with; people who performed at the super bowl and had to link it to sound bits. Now many europoor countries do not watch the superbowl and this guy was too autistic in everything else to know who went where and he lost. To music performances stashed under a sport category of questions.
Ebin :^)
imagine if emma uses his strategy next game, would be pretty epic
Imagine if she goes on to beat his streak
If James had bet everything, he would have ended with $46,800 to her $46,801.
Julia Collins had a 19,400 average coryat and won 20 games, Emma had 18,800 while having to play against James. it's not impossible (very unlikely though)
>I don't know how betting works
There are so many other angles you could take in claiming that the game was rigged, yet you take this angle for some retarded reason.
Hope she beats his single day record
i don’t believe it bros, he was the chosen one
>pride month
>a literal dyke wins
>not rigged at all
i was rooting for trebek to beat his cancer but not after this
Nevada doesn't have state income tax. Show is filmed in CA though so he's gonna get buttfucked, CA doesn't care what your resident states rules are, if you made it there the money is theirs.
>filmed perfectly in line for it to air right as pride month begins
STRANGE COINCIDENCES EVERYWHERE THESE DAYS
I feel like I was lied to. All this hype and he doesn't even get HALF of Ken's winnings. Honestly now I just wish Nate beat him last week because at least then he wouldn't be near $2.5 million
This just proves that Ken was the true master all along.
According to my friends on reddit Emma wrote her master's thesis on jeopardy
Is she actually a lesbo? Or is that just because she has shot hair?
You should stay there
guaranteed this is what happened.
What's this about Emma beating James? Are the rumors true?
She says it in the episode
lets just say, james cried like a bitch after jemma dabbed on his sorry ass.
He secured his second place by betting small. If you come in second or third you only get $2k or $1k respectively. Not that the extra $1k matters to him at that point, but you might as well play smart.
The woman who beat Ken Jennings lost on her second appearance. People sometimes just get lucky, I don't think this broad is gonna last long
>and bet a reasonable amount when ahead of him
Which was a big mistake and she was lucky James didn't catch her. Two other people previously would have beat him if they hadn't made safe bets.
IT'S ALL ON THE FINAL JEOPARDY
JAMESCHADS NOT LIKE THIS
She played very well. I bet she'll make it 3-10 episodes.
Wtf happened in final jeopardy? Why did James bet almost nothing? That’s not like his play style at all. Was this an inside job? Did they offer him a set amount of money to throw the game?
Absolutely based.
Because she was obviously going to bet big to guarantee her win if she got it right. So right away, James's betting strategy is relying on her being wrong. So he bet just enough, that if he had been wrong, he'd still beat the other guy even if the other guy double his money.
The Price Is Right documentary on Netflix is the most useless fucking movie I've ever seen.
I kept waiting for something interesting or cool to happen, but it was just nothing. I even had someone recommend it to me, although they did say it was much longer than it needed to be. which it clearly was.
This was the board, and their money position after her last daily double bet. James was very unlikely to pass her, before the end. He would have had to get almost all of the answers, and she would have had to get almost none.
Watch the episode; James hit the Daily Double with the opening question in round one (thus he could only bet 2k) and the woman got the other two. And both of the other contestants were strong players. No conspiracy, he was just outplayed and was unlucky
>James not already going for the $2000
Seems fishy
He had to use the restroom.
if he bet everything and got it correct, she would still have more money if she got it right. his only chance was for her to miss it so he bet small to ensure he would beat the other guy and hope she got it wrong, it was his only chance. jesus half of Yea Forums are legit retards
If he bet more, he still would have lost.
If the leader in final jeopardy bets enough to stay ahead of the 2nd place maximum bet, and gets the answer right, they will win. No matter what.
James was just hoping that she'd miss the question. (And if she did, James would have won, even if they both missed the question).
Plus James was trying to stay ahead of the guy in 3rd place.
Yeah, that is weird. Of course, maybe he sometimes avoids categories he considers difficult, so it isn't entirely new.
That's not what OP was saying. He was saying that the candidates were abnormally skilled.
>One wrote a master's thesis on jeopardy
>Other memorized trivial pursuit
I'm sure they started putting the A team in, yeah. I don't think that means it's "rigged"
What do they stand to gain by rigging it?
>Nothing.
James is going to lose!
Watching it live rn
I don't wanna see James lose :(
Jeopardy would prefer to have James on, he was ratings gold. Also it's hardly rigged, there is just an ebb and flow to these things.
>against a person who memorized the trivial pursuit deck and another who wrote their master's thesis on jeopardy
Fucking rigged
JAMES WHAT ARE YOU DOING
>Gets Double Jeopardy on the first clue
Doing a big hmm
He’s just being a fag because she has short hair. There’s nothing that suggests what her sexual preference is.
>claims players are 'abnormally' skilled
>keep repeating single factoids about them instead of looking at how they actually performed in the game
James wasn't outplayed. His base score was almost two times bulldyke's. Close to half her total before final jeopardy was from wagering. If James had better luck with the daily doubles it would have been a typical slaughtering. It was pure bad luck.
JAMES LOSES??!?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WTF FUCK
James a shit
Should have spent less time mugging for the camera and more time paying attention
>getting btfo by jontron and louis ck
wew
Cope harder Jamescel
had that sinking feeling when he landed first round dd as the first pick
James was great. He held up well from over 30 games and made almost 2.5 million dollars. It's a numbers game and he would lose eventually but he did great.
james is such a fucking dweeb haha holy shit
Could she beat James?
They performed abnormally well, as a group they got every single clue with no mistakes, except that cigarette tax one. they set a new record for combined coryat (53,200 of possible 54,000)
I don’t see why. He was on top for 1 month straight, we don’t need any more of him.
>Dealt with cancer second hand
So you donated to your neighbor's Kickstarter when they got cancer and posted about it on Facebook? So brave
>keep repeating single factoids about them instead of looking at how they actually performed in the game
They both did much, much better than the average player. Nobody missed a single question in the first round.
I'm not arguing they were more skilled than him. Obviously, Jeopardy results are a mixture of luck and skill, and James was bound to eventually have some rotten luck, and lose.
Finally the QAB has been slain
Did James lose on purpose?
No, but she can beat me, if you understand the sexual undertones of that type of statement.
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH
>bet $1,131
he threw that shit
>incel doesn't understand betting
he still would've lost by a dollar, cuck.
>half of all these threads are retards who don't understand FJ betting
I don't know how anyone could not possibly call this rigged. They found some guy with Korean level APM and a woman who was an encyclopaedia. Watch, the next episode the studio bought ringers will lose and normal service will be resumed.
>Alex announces cancer diagnosis
>James appears
>Alex announces cancer has enter remission
>James loses
she literally mentions her girlfriend
The dyke seemed like controlled opposition from the very start. The anecdote about her studying jeopardy. She seemed to act unsure when the answer was obvious or a guess wasn't appropriate like on the stalin question or on her daily doubles. Not saying she didn't know the answer, just that it seemed like she was performing to an extent
his pancreatic cancer went into remission? God must literally love him.
>implying he didn't bet against himself for a huge payout in Vegas
I refuse to believe he didn't take a dive, just look at his final score. It would have been cool to see Ken Jennings dethroned though.
Lil Jimbo BTFO
/ourguy/ Ken reigns supreme
Where?
proof James is satan desu. even comes from Vegas
He threw just like Jennings did, it's probably in the clause somewhere along with the NDA. So Jeopardy isn't rigged, up to a point. I'd still call this an overall win though, Holzhauer is probanly gonna become some kinda ESPN correspondent so he's more than set, and future Jeopardy competitors are gonna crib his strategy to try and build up huge wagers. It'll be a hell of a sendoff for Trebek assuming he can hold out more than a year.
James is a cute desu
Once again BASED WOMEN bringing down the patriarchy. Sorry white men, time's up.
This would be the greatest move ever.
>You know you're going to lose eventually
>They'll give you excellent odds that you'll pass Ken Jenning's total
>You bet $100k or so, and win $1 mil
>Don't even have to pay California taxes on that win, like you do with Jeopardy
God, I hope that's what happened. Hopefully the bet is in a friend's name.
James’ bet was correct. How fuckin dumb are you
DDs are more likely to be found in the $1200 and $1600 clues during DJ, and you can usually tell what categories won't have the DJ.
I'm guessing they didn't want Ken's record to be beaten, since Alex will retire soon and they will probably replace him with Ken.
JUST
he was fine in the first round. didn't miss any questions, but got unlucky hitting the daily double on the first pick of the game.
Producers were probably well aware of James' capabilities and brought him on as a "sendoff" to Alex. Considering Alex got better they probably calculated the numbers and figured it'd be more profitable to have him take a dive instead of letting him play for the rest of Alex's term.
Ultimately Jeopardy is going to go the way of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire once Alex dies or his contract is up, whichever comes first. Makes sense to milk the shit out of it before they roll out Jeopardy: Dead Husk Edition.
>Trebek brings up James' daughter at the beginning of the show
>he throws the game
Based Jeopardy execs kidnapping James' children to force him off the show.
The Limits are probably so low that it wouldn't be worth it for him to bother. You'd be better off just winning on the show.
well, at least I don't have to watch jeopardy anymore
Haven't they been grooming Dan Patrick to take over Jeopardy once Alex retires, though?
RIP Millionaire
>Producers were probably well aware of James' capabilities and brought him on as a "sendoff" to Alex.
This makes sense. They were going to have Alex quit/die at the end of the season, and introduce someone new in the fall. The goal was to attract a lot of attention, in Alex's last days, and hope that people kept watching in the fall, to see James.
Apparently Holzhauer quit his job for a year, practicing for jeopardy. Unless the producers were ignorant of this, they definitely knew that James was going to whupp everyone.
They'll pull some other stunt, before Alex actually dies.
>I expect this chick will be at least a 5-time winner
History is against you, there. Most of the people who take down a long-running champ end up being one-and-done themselves.
He's going to lose!
chick was lucky to get both daily doubles in 2nd round. iron jaw out-scored her, otherwise.
>second hand
Yeah, but she shows a lot of competence.
Plus, we don't exactly have a large sample size for people taking down a long-running champ. I mean, aside from Zerg, who is there?
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i'm glad holzauer lost, fuck that autistic son of a bitch
>Just as bullshit as Trebeks Stage 4 cancer, which only 3 months later is suddenly going into remission. Excuse me? As someone who has dealt with cancer second hand, Stage 4 doesnt just go into remission after 3 months of treatments.
He probably was getting treatments before he announced it.
lol at all the conspiracy coping
HOLY SHIT HE TACKLED HER TO THE GROUND
HE'S GONE ROUGE
Why the fuck would he only bet $1,399?
Did he throw the fucking match?!
AHHHHHHHH
PLEASE GOD
GIVE ME A CUTE GF
IM SO FUCKING LONELY
And he's probably still going to die of pancreatic cancer. It might take a year or two, but it usually comes back.
Think he threw the game? Had enough, wanted to get back to his family. He's forever changed jeopardy though, people wont be too hesitant on starting from the bottom anymore
SeeApparently a lot of people in this thread don't understand final jeopardy betting.
Why would they make Danica Patrick the next host of Jeopardy?
I was thinking of pretty much anyone who won who won four (one short of the old limit) or more.
I believe the language they've used is "near" remission.
Because he couldn't catch her if she got it right, anyway (she had more than him going into Final). So he made a wager predicated on the chance that she got it wrong. It was the right bet, she just made it irrelevant by getting it right.
Unless he also changes his name to "Alex Trebek" I doubt most people will care about the show at that point.
Though to be honest I wouldn't be surprised if another long running "champion" appeared during Don's (or whoever replaces Alex) first few weeks/months hosting the show. It would be their best, and probably only, chance to retain peak viewership once the torch is passed.
all of the posts and articles you see where people don't understand this are a good filter for pleb-tier intellects... .but i'll help you, anyway.
the girl was ahead. if James bet everything he had and got it right - he could only end up with 46800... the girl made sure she bet enough to end up with 46801.
the ONLY way he could win was if she got it wrong.
also... he looked at the guy in last place and figured how much that guy could make it he happened to be the only one to get it right.
the middle guy could get to 22000, if he got it right and doubled... so James made sure he bet a small enough amount so that if the girl got it wrong.. and he got it wrong.. .but the middle guy got it wright, James would still win.
his betting was perfect.
mad lad has fallen
>can't enjoy this episode without all the drama surrounding it
I just want jeopardy to be comfy again
>Apparently a lot of people in this thread don't understand final jeopardy betting.
He didn't even bet more than what she had to begin Final Jeopardy. If what you and the user you quoted is true, why the fuck would he choose an out? Especially given his style of play to date. There was no Shakespeare prior to Final Jeopardy so he had nothing to go on in re: to prior history of answers.
It would have been the right bet had it been just enough to get over the total amount she had. It makes absolutely no sense.
>his betting was perfect.
Read everything I've typed out above. Had she got it wrong and bet nothing, he'd still lose. His better against the third guy is nonsensical and only makes sense assuming she's going to bet everything she has. The pseudo-intellectual here is either you and/or James and it was out of character in re: to previous games he's played.
*with
>trebek croaks at 13:00 on September 9th
>james reveals he was a time traveler just looking for cheap thrills before getting into his time machine and blasting off to 1929 to short the stock market
Nobody has enough making money that easily. He just lost.
>Thinking that the producers would throwaway James who has been causing the most media attention to jeopardy in years.
If anything they put her and the other dude in thinking it would be a more entertaining game but James would still win
HE GOT BEAT BY ASHLY BURCH
He lost it all dude. You only get your final day winnings when you lose.
>won four (one short of the old limit) or more
You don't have to be good to win four. A lot of people will get there, just by chance.
If you have a 1/3 chance of winning each game, you'll have a 1/81 chance of winning four straight games. If you're a little more skilled than the average player, that changes to a 1/2 chance, and you'll have a 1/16 chance of winning four straight games.
Since they have 2 new people on each show, and over a hundred episodes per year, you're going to get a lot of four-game winners, who have modest skill, and good luck.
James and Ken had actual skill, which was on an entirely different level than most four-game winners. It's virtually impossible to win 30 games straight, without having more than a ~85% chance of winning each game.
Have you seriously never watched the show? You keep what you earned in previous wins.
If you lose, only on THAT DAY you get $2,000 for second place or $1,000 for third place.
So does this bitch get destroyed in tomorrow's episode?
He had to account for the guy in third, too. If James had wagered enough to exceed her pre-Final total, he risked ending up in third place if he got it wrong. Sure, second vs. third is only a thousand dollar difference, but he was trying to maximize his winnings.
And her pre-Final total was pretty much irrelevant because she had to wager enough to beat James if James had bet everything.
>Had she got it wrong and bet nothing
But she wasn't ever going to bet nothing. That would make no sense.
>only makes sense assuming she's going to bet everything she has
Not everything, just enough to beat James if he maxed his own wager. Which is literally what people always do in the lead unless they have no confidence whatsoever in the category.
She only had four wins, and not an impressive total. She got lucky a couple times as well.
This is my head canon now
>He didn't even bet more than what she had to begin Final Jeopardy. If what you and the user you quoted is true, why the fuck would he choose an out? Especially given his style of play to date. There was no Shakespeare prior to Final Jeopardy so he had nothing to go on in re: to prior history of answers.
You don't get it.
If she bet it all, and got the answer right, he'd lose. No matter what. So James can only win, if
1) She bets less than 20k
2) She does bet >20k, and she misses the question
Given James' bet, he would have won, in possibility 2, regardless of whether he got the question right. And given her play history (big bets), it seemed very likely that she was going to bet >20k, and thus possibility (1) is unlikely. And given her bet size, James seemed to correctly guess what she was going to bet.
And if James bet more, and they both missed the question, he could possibly lose to the third place player, if the third place player got the question correct.
>It would have been the right bet had it been just enough to get over the total amount she had. It makes absolutely no sense.
Based James knew she was going to bet big for the win, which she did. That would have been his strategy in a winning position. Had she got it wrong, she would have lost. Even James betting it all wouldn't have been enough for the win. Betting 0 in a position guaranteed to win with a correct answer is stupid. He wouldn't do it and knew she wouldn't either. He made the correct bet.
nope
>b-but if she bet zero he would've lost! conspiracy!
She'll win between 2 and 10 episodes. She's good, but not Holzhauer or Jennings good.
Were you not listening to today's winner talk about her thesis? None of this stuff can be reliably predicted mathematically.
And historically, four-game champs have been rare enough that it's usually been a near guarantee of getting into the TOC. In fact, about 20% of the time, the TOC has even included some three-game champs.
But I included four-game champs mostly because until relatively recently five-game champs were automatically retired. Even leaving them aside, we have a fair number of people since the limit was removed who have won between six and twenty, and in almost every case, the person who ultimately knocked them off didn't win more than two games, and more often than not, just the one. No one remembers who beat Julia, or Austin, or Buzzy. It's an historical fact that you just don't see four-plus-game runs back-to-back.
Watched his entire streak since first day, he obviously quit. The guy avoids prestige in all conversation but clearly likes money, so second place is fine in his book. He was just giving away questions by not buzzing in when he clearly showed mastery of the buzzer system long ago.
My wife's theory after watching was that his wife must call the shots and got bored hanging out in LA so long and told him to throw in the towel.
Retard. Why the fuck would Emma have bet on James missing final jeopardy?
Yeah right, he threw and left potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table because his wife got bored? Gimme a break
This. The dude missed like one Final in his entire run.
>literally me reading this thread
the part I don't get is how two new players were beating him on the buzzer despite James always being lightning quick every other show and having like a month's practice with the signal device.
he's never been that slow.
new contestants are usually notoriously bad with the signal.
>literally me
you're gonna have to go back
>he's donating it all anyway.
Based.
If I won two million dollars I'd donate half a million to the church, half a million to charities and hospitals for the mentally ill, half a million to the local homeless shelter, and half a million to my family and close friends.
>4 wins
>barely won any money
>no chance to see her again on tournament of champions
COCK TEASE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER
James was using amphetamine to improve his reaction time. They told him he had to stop or they'd kick him off the show.
>Were you not listening to today's winner talk about her thesis? None of this stuff can be reliably predicted mathematically.
She was talking about question difficulty. Totally different subject. I don't think you paid attention.
I don't know the statistics on 6-20 game winners. You may be correct.
>It's an historical fact that you just don't see four-plus-game runs back-to-back.
As I pointed out, winning four games will involve a lot of luck. In fact, it's expected that you'll have like 4-5 a year, if everyone had an exactly equal chance of winning each game.
The most games you win, the more likely it is that skill is the primary component in your winning streak.
your timeline's all fucked up
>James appears
>Alex announces cancer diagnosis (march 6th)
>James loses (march 12th)
>Alex announces cancer has enter remission (may 29th)
People saying Emma was somehow better than average are retarded. Without wagering she had about the same amount of money as the other guy. James beat both of their asses in terms of number of clues and clue values. She got lucky with the daily doubles and probably won't last another game.
>*most
Scratch that last line:
>The more games you win, the more likely it is that skill is the primary component in your winning streak.
>Without wagering she had about the same amount of money as the other guy.
Which is considerably more than most people battles James got. Usually, it's a blowout.
She's certainly not as good as James, but she's certainly quite a lot above-average.
>probably won't last another game.
She'll probably win one more, and is unlikely to pass 7 wins.
And this stupid cunt is just going to lose tomorrow
Based white woman dabbing on the hapa menace
It is interesting to note that James in the same position consistently bet the same sum whether he was winning or losing. That could be a game altering lapse in strategy.
What if James had his third cousin take on a million doller bet with a Chinese bookmaker that he would fail to break Ken's record by less than 100k?
>Without wagering
But that's literally what made her and James special--they had the balls to risk crazy amounts of money and the brains to back it up.
People keep track of score without betting, it's the coryat score. They were
James: 23,400
Emma: 18,800
Other Guy: 11,000
Considering the average winner only has about 15,500, and Emma had to face James, she's definitely better than average and will probably win a few games at least
She literally wagered big ONE (1) time. Nothing special.
his betting strategy will become normal, same as everyone started hunting for daily doubles bottom-up after Arthur Chu did it
Not the games I saw. If he didn't have much, and there was a lot of game to play, he'd bet it all.
Later in the game, I saw him vary bet size, depending on how difficult the category was. He even explicitly stated it, a couple times.
do we know about the future episodes?
Agree. She’s smart but James would likely beat her 9/10 times. She got lucky and is good. I bet she wins 2-4 more. Betting on the low end.
Do you know how rare it is for someone to make it 10 episodes? James is a complete outlier. The game will drift now back to what it was, when 4 game champions were impressive and a 6-7 day champ is a once in a year thing.
I think she’s sharp but she’ll get 2 more wins and lose a high scoring game.
She basically used "his" strategy today, aside from being too conservative on her post-lead DD.
definitely lucky, but one difference is that Ken basically beat himself by losing on both DDs and FJ, against below-average Zerg and another guy who was a complete nonfactor. In this case, she actively (compared to Zerg) won it against James and the third guy who seemed above average too.
The third place person had literally zero effect on his wager. You are a fucking retard
yeah, but a bunch of people have during the streak, not so much in betting but a lot of people went straight to the big clues. It'll be interesting to see if she'll start at the $200 clues tomorrow or decide to just keep rolling and start at the $1000s
>bet so if he was wrong he'd have 22,001
>third place would have 22,000 if doubled
gee what a coincidence!!
james strategy isnt unique, a few guys did it back in the 90s but arthur cho popularized it a few years ago. all the champion players do it. what set james apart was his speed on the buzzer, most of the contestants know most of the answers
You’re missing the point. He could’ve bet zero. The point was that’s he was only playing for her to miss, regardless of his answer. The wager was fun money.
fuck off /pol/ the jews didn't have anything to do with this
Also it wasn’t as you explained that he was worried about getting second vs third place. James doesn’t give a fuck about that you retard. James was betting that she’d miss and bet it all, and just in case the other dude was right he couldn’t win.
What does the one homo say to the other homo before he finds out he loses?
i agree with all this, I was calling the guy a retard for saying the "third place person had zero effect on his wager"
that's true, but the third place guy put him in a suboptimal spot because he had to stay above him and he couldn't bet enough to cover her in case she did bet zero (which she would only do if she 100% knew she wouldn't get the clue, or if she somehow knew he would do that)
I set 10 as a maximum. That indicates I doubt that she'll make it 10 episodes.
And she already made it 1 episode. She beat James.
>cute
>chin that tells me she's born into money
>looks like she sucks at sucking dick but is fine putting it in the a
how can i bag someone like this anons
that 8k wager is the really tipped the scales
she is painfully mediocre
No, that it isn’t the point and has nothing to do with anything.
Good night sweet prince
he cute
>dude just smile more!
>Dyke will crack under pressure and won't end up anywhere near the records of James and Ken
>full episode of James losing was 'leaked'
:thunkeng:
But a big part of that is the answers and their difficulty, which can’t be predicted. If you get just 7 subjects that you are reliably good at your odds of winning go up. Then, if you can put together a string of those 4 games in a row should be no real statistical feat, and going on Jeopardy you usually prepare by going through a number of seemingly obscure topics.
>mfw she only wagered that high (8k) because she's fighting against ourguy JimmyH
>Ctrl f strategy
>8 results
>muh strategy
Is cucklover29 here? Lmfao
How did the episode leak? I knew about this on Saturday but watched today to make sure it wasn't a stunt
Niggers
I said the same thing as soon as she won. What a fucking whimper to go out on.
TV/cable stations obviously have copies and will watch them pre-airing so that they can check-see if there will be any defect/problems before they air it. Someone probably saved a copy at the station after the pre-air check and boom here we are.
>get the highest ratings in years cause of James
>deliberately try to eliminate him cause he wins an extra 50-60k an episode more than the average, which is nothing to a nationally televised tv show
Literal brainlet
>Distributed to a thousand TV stations
>One guy sends it to a friend
>Friend sends it to three friends
>One of them uploads it
>Goes viral
Stuff like GoT has all sorts of additional security measures, and even they ended up having 4 episodes leak, that one time.
Ah I see. Even my boss knew about it and was trying to bet us that James was gonna lose today. Dunno how normies learned about it but if my boss knew it must have been a big leak
He just didn’t play at the level that we were used to seeing.
>Daytime TV
>Gameshow
>50-60k per day is nothing
The whole reason it's a game show, is because regular shows cost too much to make. It's usually aired in time slots next to soap operas.
>Even my boss knew about it and was trying to bet us that James was gonna lose today
I think its time to resign and look for another job user.
There were internet news stories about the leak. I'd assume that's how normies learned about it.
>killing their golden goose
Isn't James the reason why Jeopardy!'s popular these days? Now some dyke won their viewership's gonna plummet unless she's in a 20 day streak.
Jeopardy airs in primetime 7:30pm in the united states and has for decades.
They're going to bring him back.
>James vs. Ken: the showdown for ultimate jeopardy supremacy
Ken has been back several times.
Not where I live.
>2:30
This could be. Shooting a bunch of episodes in the same day sounds clustered. I wonder what the cool down period is?
Where do you live? On the east coast, it's always been a prime time show
>he thinks jeopardy is daytime tv
>he doesn't think the producer would easily pay 60k more an episode for these insane ratings and buzz
Room temperature IQ
>I HATE YOU
Midwest
Just so you guys know, Emma doesn't lose tomorrow, so at least it wasn't a one and done thing
How do I know? I have the backhaul and also made the WEBM in OP
Jeopardy is daytime TV in part of the US.
Also, they don't make any more money from a short-term increase in viewership. Advertisers already paid them.
Fuck. I was hoping she'd be a one-shot. Can't stand looking at that awful haircut and dull demeanor.
I haven't watched Jeopardy in a very long time. When did gay purple become the backdrop?
based Ken
They just rigged the daily doubles tbqh
>Have you seriously never watched the show
only single moms and grandpas watch this boomercore
real people watch kino
Since about 2009. The background colour has been relatively the same but the set has changes minorly a few times since then. There is literally a wiki for the jeopardy sets since it's inception.
he didn't have enough to bet, even if he bet all
are you retarded? no one would be able to win over 2k if they had to lose someday to leave the show.
Obvious fuckin fix, I wonder what they gave him to bet that low in the FJ and throw it
Also, the woman who beat James has a Masters degree - for which she wrote her thesis on Joepardy - she literally knew everything about the game and how it operated, it's like she was designed to take down James as a "break glass in case of emergency" option
Most of these Champions have that kind of background. Studying jeopardy or gaming the system. Look at Roger Craig.
What if Trebek is already dead?
Who is hosting the show?
Is it Xela Kebert?
shows were taped months ago
He was just on a live morning program the other day and said that his treatment is going astonishingly well. He may get miracle-tier post-cancer longevity like Jimmy Carter.
>On the east coast, it's always been a prime time show
It's a syndicated program. Every station that carries it gets to choose where to plug it into their schedule. Most stations do put Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune in the 7:00-8:00 PM (Eastern and Pacific; 6:00-7:00 Central and Mountain) "fringe" block, as a relic of historical FCC rules, but not all do.
Also, that block is not "prime time." Prime time is the network-controlled programming block which starts at 8:00 PM and ends at 11:00 (Eastern and Pacific; 7:00-10:00 Central and Mountain), on the Big Three networks (Fox and CW end their prime time blocks an hour earlier, and PBS has no analogue, since member stations have full control of scheduling).
One of the ramifications of Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune being run in the fringe block is that if for any reason they get off-schedule, they are not allowed to run long, into prime time, because the network, not the station, owns that time. I actually saw this come up just last week, when my local station mistakenly aired the second segment of Jeopardy twice (once at the proper point, then again after the second ad break, when the Double Jeopardy round should have been shown). In order to still air Jeopardy in full, it ended up running well into Wheel's block (my station airs Jeopardy at 7, and Wheel at 7:30), and then in order to get Wheel finished by 8:00, they had to cut nearly all of the ads out of it. If this had happened with network programming, they'd have simply let it run behind all evening (with the affiliates simply shortening their late local news).
Alex said some weird stuff right at the beginning
Did he? I missed the first five minutes. What'd he say?
Ignore the television retards and autistic replies. I completely agree. You see, these fucks can't read faces and understand non-verbal communication. He was clearly underplaying and putting in an effort but just like going up against a WSP champion, he folded in deference. He wanted Jennings' record to stand and as a result has offers coming in from everywhere. He was just done and had his legacy and a ton of money.
The Beiber looking librarian type thing is gone by Friday so who cares to watch anymore.
Only real Jeopardy fans like me will keep watching because we like the game for what it is, not who the champion is.
>Who is hosting the show?
Turd Ferguson
Some weird stuff, right at the beginning apparently.
This. I didn't even notice the show until you guys started posting about him
They expected trebek to croak soon, so they need a new host, Ken Jennings. If James beat Ken's record suddenly he's a nobody.
James got bored of winning. No conspiracy.
He's a professional gambler.
If you told me he got tired of winning after beating the record twice over, I'd be more willing to believe you.
Theme of the episode
youtube.com
Just 60K away from the highest total won. Dude was a madman.
she looks like that lumpy British woman that likes to pose nude in academia
Called that shit happening from Day 1.
I don't think it was rigged or that they even intended the two challengers to beat James.
They just brought in some exceptionally good players to make it interesting for his last game before he beat Ken's record.
And James has been fucking around for a while, letting others get ahead of him in the first round and making a face like he doesn't know the answer when answering DD's and final Jeopardy. Presumably to make it more suspenseful.
James probably thought these two were going to be easy like everyone else and intentionally held back to make it a more interesting show.
i want her to beat the record
Yeah she only wins 24K though and probably would have lost to Matthew if he didn't miss his second daily double. She's nowhere near James' level.
because 1488 would have been too obvious
BASED JAMES HOWITZER
>1488
What would they do if somebody bet that.
Would they catch it? Would it get pulled from the air?
>itt: bandwagon casuals who would never win Jeopardy
It’s not allowed, heard this mentioned on a podcast recently. They banned 666, 69, and 1488
I think 1488 is a legit banned wager on Jeopardy
Get out.
im surprised they even know about it
>>Holzhauer is about to take first place in winnings
>RIGGED
what does Jeopardy get for him losing tonight?
>He loses
Nothing. He's just another guy who wasn't as good as Jennings
Maybe save 10-20k an episode because some idiot is scraping by instead of this guy
>He wins
OMG NEW KEN JENNINGS.
TUNE IN TOMORROW TO SEE HOW FAR HE GOES
Normies give a shit about jeopardy to see if he wins
News stations talk about the show which is far better than 10-20k in advertising could do.
If anything him losing tonight is the best proof that this show isn't rigged.
so the 1399 (1488 is banned on the show) bet is to confirm James is a /pol/fag right
hes a far right nazi
word needs to spread
What's going on here?
expat here. does anyone watch Jeoprady in Europe? I use to watch at least twice a week and I'm sad to have missed this guy's run.
This has been well known for a while considering his most used DD wager was 10488
You could just torrent the episodes, they come out daily
Probably no book at all, definitely no book that would could handle a $1M bet would give you action on Jeopardy airing today because the actual contest took place months ago.
>expat here. does anyone watch Jeoprady in Europe?
nobody knows this show here
Haven't torrented in ages so I didn't think of this. I will give it a go.
>If anything him losing tonight is the best proof that this show isn't rigged.
Which is exactly why they made him lose so close to tying with Jennings.