on his first appearance<\/a>, “He is a professional sports gambler. What does that mean, exactly?” James answered, “Oh, I’ll bet on anything.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAlong with the “Forrest Bounce,” Holzhauer reveals another key way he’s finding success on the television show. He says uninteresting topics are often made exciting in children’s books.<\/p>\n
“They are chock-full of infographics, pictures, and all kinds of stuff to keep the reader engaged,” he told The Washington Post<\/i>. “I couldn’t make it through a chapter of an actual Dickens novel without falling asleep.”<\/p>\nSports Betting Proliferation<\/b><\/h2>\n
The highly publicized run of Holzhauer on “Jeopardy!” is the latest mainstream media event for sports betting. The US Supreme Court ruled in May 2018 that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) ran afoul of the Constitution and its anti-commandeering interpretations.<\/p>\n
As a result, seven states \u2013 Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, New Mexico, and Mississippi \u2013 have joined Nevada in permitting full-scale sports gambling. Numerous other states are moving towards legalization.<\/strong><\/p>\nHowever, in California where “Jeopardy!” is taped on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, the odds of sports betting being legalized seem long. Competing interests between card clubs, tribal casinos, and state politicians have the process at a standstill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Jeopardy!” player James Holzhauer \u2013 a self-described professional sports bettor in Las Vegas \u2013 has now won more than $460,000 in just eight games, which makes him the gameshow’s second all-time winningest player. Holzhauer’s historic streak has been unlike anything ever seen on the long-running syndicated trivia TV program. On April 9, he set the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":103049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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