Looking forward to seeing James again tomorrow night.
@bgbg4us I heard it the other day. It was very funny, and provided some interesting background on James’ shoutouts to his nephews - He is competing to be the “coolest Uncle” ! 
I also liked the way they explained James’ daily double strategy in gambling terms. If you get an even bet - ie, 50/50, you can make as much as you lose - and you have an 80% chance of winning, you go all-in every time!
Ken Jennings on James
“I also liked the way they explained James’ daily double strategy in gambling terms. If you get an even bet - ie, 50/50, you can make as much as you lose - and you have an 80% chance of winning, you go all-in every time!”
That strategy is fine when you are playing in Vegas. You can keep playing as long as you have any money left. But in Jeopardy in order to keep playing you not only need to have money but you must also finish each game with more money than all your competitors. This extra requirement makes betting big on DDs riskier. If you lose on the big bet DD you might still have enough money to keep playing but you also might open the door for one of your competitors to overtake you and put a stop to your Jeopardy dream.
@Scipio James only bets all on the first round DD. When he gets the second round DD he bets so as to be still the leader/
^^True, but even if you are still leading after losing a big late bet you might have opened the door for another strong player to catch you, especially if he/she hits the final DD.
If you live by the big bet eventually you will die by the big bet.
He is also getting something like 90% of the daily doubles right. That helps too. 
Looking forward to having James back on tonight!
Another dominating win. His daily average is now $77,401, more than the previous one-day record of $75,000. Amazing.
He seemed a little slow on the buzzer tonight, got beaten on a lot of easy questions.
James is a confluence of many factors:
–he is very smart
–he recalls info very quickly
–he’s got the clicker mastered
–he has shrewd betting and ‘board’ strategies
Everything he does is predicated upon knowing the correct answers–without the correct responses nothing else works.
Tonight Alex thought James got a question wrong; turns out Alex was mistaken. LOL
^^ Loved that.
I thought it was odd that Alex didn’t catch the woman’s wrong answer about the name of the son of Charlemagne (it should have been Pepin the Hunchback and not Pepin the Short, ha).
James wagered enough on final jeopardy that he could have lost if he hadn’t known the answer.
@calmom he wouldn’t have lost. The most Jenny could get was $9200, so if he had lost $40,000, he would have still had $9229. I would find it hard to imagine him making a math mistake.
In the local Las Vegas paper James shared his favorite kids books,most of which he used to study including many Classics Illustrated books. He also said he likes the book “Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen” And his comment about the book was “A kid gets to appear on Jeopardy! Pay no attention to the depiction of the father as a degenerate gambler.” LOL!
On Good Morning America Robin Roberts talked about her time on Celebrity Jeopardy, or as she called it “Remedial Jeopardy”.
“Tonight Alex thought James got a question wrong; turns out Alex was mistaken. LOL”
I knew they were going to give him credit for a correct answer after being on the phone with my mom for hours on Saturday trying to fix the display ratio on her TV. I had to do a lot of googling and saw both terms used (though aspect ratio was much more common.)
And oops, Alex ended the show just assuming James will win tonight again. I just don’t think he should do that.