Of his 32 wins, 29 were “runaway games,” meaning it was over before Final Jeopardy. Heading into Final Jeopardy on Monday, Holzhauer was in a rare spot: second place. For starters, asked the conspiracy theorists, why did Holzhauer not bet enough to cover the spread heading into Final Jeopardy? And why was the Final Jeopardy category Shakespeare, which Boettcher wrote her undergraduate thesis about? Yes, it seems odd that Holzhauer ended Monday’s game with $24,799, his lowest total ever and more than $50,000 off his daily average.

Source: thestar June 04, 2019 19:15 UTC