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Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay said Thursday that "Jeopardy" has become popular with star candidate James Holzhauer.
"I think James is the star of the country right now," Gay said, appearing in "The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino".
"People look at it like a major player, like it a" game 7 "or something," he added, referring to the last game of several sports leagues. Earlier this week, Gay's column asked "Is this a Jeopardy! "Whiz America's best sports story?"
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Gay also congratulated Holzhauer, a professional sports bettor, for "reorganizing" "Jeopardy" in "real time".
"The way it really changes the way people play" Jeopardy "is that it has adopted a" Moneyball "approach – in much the same way that Oakland A has revolutionized the way people think about baseball, it makes "Jeopardy" It finds hidden value, it's remarkable to watch, "he said.
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After 14 games, 34-year-old Holzhauer from Las Vegas, Nevada, broke a record by earning more than $ 1 million in record time. Holzhauer told animator Alex Trebek that he would like to donate some of his money to children's charities located in the Las Vegas area.
Holzhauer also broke the one-day winning record with "Jeopardy", beating competitor Roger Craig, who had won $ 77,000 in a single game in 2010. "I've always said I wanted to break the record of A match from Roger Craig and that, he says.
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