Friday, January 23, 2015

Mild Rant: Poorest final Jeopardy bets of the year?

Amazing!

Last night on Jeopardy (1/22/2015), going into final jeopardy, the previous night's champion had accumulated $1800  while the two challengers were tied with $7400 a piece. They could not be caught by the champ if both bet nothing and became co-champions. From the title you can guess that they blew it.  Both bet everything and both got the final Jeopardy question wrong.

The champ, realizing he had nothing to lose bet $1799 and with the correct question continued as champ. With a small chance of getting the final question wrong the logical strategy would have been for both challengers to swallow their pride and bet $0. Sure they'll be second guessing their decision for a long time.

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