The man who made $2.4M on Jeopardy using sports betting principles | 10 People Who Got Rich On Sports Betting
1 min readNov 27, 2019
Other than the sportsbook managers in Vegas, not many people had heard of the name James Holzhauer before his incredible 32-game winning streak on Jeopardy! in 2019.
Over 33 games of Jeopardy!, Holzhauer won over $2.4 million using basic sports betting principles such as probabilities and expected value; principles he’d been using his whole life.
But before he took the Jeopardy! world by storm, James was and still is a professional sports bettor.