Turns out Ken Jennings was wrong about one thing: himself.
"I actually told 'Jeopardy!' I did not want to do it. They were very persistent. They did not want the empty podium," Jennings tells USA TODAY."I was 15 years on ; I can kind of feel that I'm not longer as sharp as I used to be. And clearly James is. I've seen him plenty on TV looking younger and better at 'Jeopardy!' than me" during his 32-game streak last year.
Having beloved host Trebek, who is fighting stage 4 pancreatic cancer, present the GOAT trophy made the experience even more special, Jennings says. "It's hard to think of a likable, relatable way to say it, but yeah, all three of us are pretty well set up when it comes to game show money. It really was all about the bragging rights, the thing that can't be bought," he said."There's so much luck in the game categories: who finds the Daily Doubles, who can find their buzzer finger early, who misses a fluky, unusually hard Final Jeopardy! or Daily Double.
He also got increasingly comfortable with employing an aggressive, all-in betting strategy that is a Holzhauer signature.
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