{"id":24746,"date":"2019-06-03T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T00:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1046610"},"modified":"2019-06-03T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T00:03:13","slug":"jeopardy-champ-james-holzhauer-ends-winning-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/jeopardy-champ-james-holzhauer-ends-winning-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeopardy! Champ James Holzhauer Ends Winning Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All good things come to an end, which was the case for James Holzhauer<\/strong> on Jeopardy!<\/em> tonight. <\/p>\n

After 32 wins and $2,462,216 in prize money, the professional sports gambler lost on Monday to Emma Boettcher, just $60,000 short of Ken Jennings’ record. <\/p>\n

“Emma dominated her warmup games that day, and I knew she would make an extremely tough challenger,” Holzhauer said in a statement. “I was still incredibly impressed by her courage on that ‘True Daily Double.’ I’m proud that it took a top-level player at her absolute best to eliminated me.” <\/p>\n

Holzhauer held on for so long due to his strategy of betting big on the higher valued clues, and he will return to Jeopardy!<\/em> in season 36 for the Tournament of Champions. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Holzhauer is now the second most winning Jeopardy! contestant of all time, behind Jennings, who won 74 games in a row and accumulated $2,520,700 in prize money. <\/p>\n

“I never really believed I could win 75 shows, but I definitely thought I had a great shot at Ken’s cash winnings record,” Holzhauer said.<\/p>\n

You can watch the Final Jeopardy that took Holzhauer out of the game below. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The new champion Emma Boettcher is a user experience librarian from Chicago, and she won the episode with $46,801 to Holzhauer’s $24,799.<\/p>\n

Holzhauer’s loss was spoiled earlier today by leaked footage, and then The New York Times<\/a> confirmed it with an interview with James. <\/p>\n

“Nobody likes to lose,” he said in the interview. “But I’m very proud of how I did, and I really exceeded my own expectations for the show. So I don’t feel bad about it.” <\/p>\n

Check your local listings for Jeopardy!<\/em> air times.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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All good things come to an end, which was the case for James Holzhauer on Jeopardy! tonight.  After 32 wins and $2,462,216 in prize money, the professional sports gambler lost on Monday to Emma Boettcher, just $60,000 short of Ken Jennings’ record.  “Emma dominated her warmup games that day, and I knew she would make an extremely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 15:18:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}