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Deadspin was much, much less circumspect about it so don't go there (or to any GMG sites, really).
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I don't mind the spoilers, the process is always as interesting as the outcome.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz16ngdsG0 As much as I might have gotten tired of him I can't wait for the inevitable showdown between him, Ken, and Brad.
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Jun 4, 2019 00:54
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Iron Crowned posted:Anyone else hootin and hollerin? every day of my life
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Iron Crowned posted:Anyone else hootin and hollerin? Yeah this lady seems pretty cool too
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Jun 4, 2019 00:58
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lol yeah the internet is going to be broken until james explains his FJ wager.
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Jun 4, 2019 00:59
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Was that the only time in Jeopary history that one 1 question was answered wrong across all players and both boards. I wish be bet it all so he would have lost by 1 dollar exactly after winning 2.4m.
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Jun 4, 2019 01:07
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compared to how ken went out that felt anticlimatic e: https://twitter.com/James_Holzhauer/status/1135700075173146624 https://twitter.com/James_Holzhauer/status/1135700077173854208
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:lol yeah the internet is going to be broken until james explains his FJ wager. It was more of a bet that Emma would assume he would bet big, and she would accordingly bet big and lose. I'm pretty sure that was the first time he didn't enter Final Jeopardy in the lead.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:lol yeah the internet is going to be broken until james explains his FJ wager. Emma's bet was basically preordained -- the only rational bet for her was $20,201. 3rd place had 11,000, meaning he could have doubled up to 22,000. if james got his FJ wrong he would have been left with $22,001 it was the correct bet for James. he knew the only way he was going to win was for Emma to get it wrong anyway, and it was the bet that protected him from Louis CK But Handsome coming from 3rd to snipe his victory.
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Jun 4, 2019 01:13
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The coolest part is that the episode was filmed before James's streak began airing, meaning she didn't even have a chance to study his strategy. She didn't target her strategy to take him down, she didn't even have a clue how he played going in.
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Soothing Vapors posted:Emma's bet was basically preordained -- the only rational bet for her was $20,201. i should have clarified that i myself understood the wager, and should have also posted tweets https://twitter.com/hbtc23/status/1135690964872421381 https://twitter.com/halflife0/status/1135697634386153472 https://twitter.com/Shackelford1055/status/1135698938294689793 https://twitter.com/MattDamsel/status/1135699338452242433 etc. We are we living in the age of the conspiracy. It's all too appropriate that "Deep State" was the answer to a clue tonight.
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Jun 4, 2019 01:26
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Daily doubles did determine the outcome, albeit not by his missing one. He effectively got no daily doubles this game, and conversely Emma bet big and nailed it. And it's hard to get daily doubles without being on a roll, which she was with excellent buzzer reflexes and knowledge. It wouldn't surprise me if she wins at least a few more games.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:We are we living in the age of the conspiracy. It's all too appropriate that "Deep State" was the answer to a clue tonight. If you wanna go that route, I say swing for the fences: Emma, having written her Master's thesis on Jeopardy, was brought in as a ringer to make sure James lost before he broke Ken's record. Obviously, this was all orchestrated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:If you wanna go that route, I say swing for the fences: And the other contestant just happened to memorize the entire 1st edition of Trivial Pursuit? We're through the looking glass, people.
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Jun 4, 2019 01:45
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I blame the Illuminati. They have their hands in *everything*
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:If you wanna go that route, I say swing for the fences: That's exactly what the Area 51 Lizard People want you to believe.
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It's actually pretty cool that James' loss was due to an incredibly loving strong player beating him, and not an error on his part. And James' daughter's card for Alex was touching, you could tell Alex was trying pretty hard to keep it together there.
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Also, I fully encourage the producers to not only bring in ringers to take down long-running champs, but go full "Gladiator"-style with hidden tigers and the like as part of the stage.
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I had been wondering if it would be more helpful for the third-place contestant to be relevant if not in it to the end, effectively shrinking the board and compressing the gap between James and the challenger; or out of it, not wasting any money that could have gone to the challenger. Looks like the former worked out.
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Jun 4, 2019 01:53
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:i should have clarified that i myself understood the wager, and should have also posted tweets Like James betting big just to get to showboat if his flawless opponent somehow hosed up FJ would have been incredibly out of character.
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Wouldn't every jeopardy ringer already be signed up to play the game for 50k a half hour?
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James made the right bet and it was an incredibly bright bet. The only way he could win is if Final Jeopardy was a tough question that stumped everyone and that's how he bet. He even protected himself in case Emma and he missed and the third guy got it right.
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Darth Brooks posted:James made the right bet and it was an incredibly bright bet. The only way he could win is if Final Jeopardy was a tough question that stumped everyone and that's how he bet. He even protected himself in case Emma and he missed and the third guy got it right. As much as I don't like James, it was really was a good strategy. His entire run has been predicated on having a large enough lead that no one else could match him (barring a couple close calls). Without that advantage because someone was actually ahead of him for once, instead of betting on himself, he bet against the other players, and Emma was just too strong.
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Jun 4, 2019 02:42
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lovely timing, sucks for him that with one game left he fell just short of the Ken Jennings dollar record
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I think it's extremely funny that he lost the day he was set to eclipse Jennings's record, but also I hope that he plays in the 2019 Tournament of Champions and wins enough to knock that fraud Kravis out of the three-spot, and have the match between him, Brad, and Ken advertised as the meeting of the undisputed three greatest game show contestants in American history.
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PowerBuilder3 posted:Was that the only time in Jeopary history that one 1 question was answered wrong across all players and both boards. There was a Tournament of Champions game eons ago where no one missed anything. SpiderHyphenMan posted:I think it's extremely funny that he lost the day he was set to eclipse Jennings's record, but also I hope that he plays in the 2019 Tournament of Champions and wins enough to knock that fraud Kravis out of the three-spot, and have the match between him, Brad, and Ken advertised as the meeting of the undisputed three greatest game show contestants in American history. Brad made mincemeat out of Ken. I'd love to see him against James.
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I love Ken but unfortunately Brad is the GOAT which sucks because he seems like such a dickhead. I kind of want James to humble him.
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Anne Whateley posted:The coolest part is that the episode was filmed before James's streak began airing, meaning she didn't even have a chance to study his strategy. She didn't target her strategy to take him down, she didn't even have a clue how he played going in. I don't think this is accurate but I'm not sure. My coworker's sister was on a couple games ago and said coworker went to the taping, and I vaguely remember that James Hype had already started and we were all like "What if he's still there for her game?!"
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Darth Brooks posted:James made the right bet and it was an incredibly bright bet. The only way he could win is if Final Jeopardy was a tough question that stumped everyone and that's how he bet. He even protected himself in case Emma and he missed and the third guy got it right. Yeah, the only thing his bet didn’t really protect him from was Emma betting 0 or some incredibly low amount, when all signs would indicate the bet that she made
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West coast + 7:30 PM airtime + in a market where it airs on NBC so hockey happens to delay it = I was never going to avoid learning the outcome ahead of time. Still over 30 minutes til airtime for me as I post this lmao. But NOW I'm ready to get the news that I've been selected for season 36.
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Same here, normally airs at 7 and is scheduled for 9 so I have my DVR set to record from now until like 11 whee. It was pretty funny not seeing today's episode in the Recorded Episodes list, though. Would've been a hilarious way to go out!
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mennoknight posted:it actually rules extremely hard that he lost
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Poque posted:I don't think this is accurate but I'm not sure. My coworker's sister was on a couple games ago and said coworker went to the taping, and I vaguely remember that James Hype had already started and we were all like "What if he's still there for her game?!" quote:Holzhauer’s episodes began airing in April. Boettcher said she taped Monday’s episode in March, and she didn’t know that Holzhauer was a 32-day champion until that information was revealed as contestants gathered before taping got underway.
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I also didn't know this https://twitter.com/buzztronics/status/1135701418575138816
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