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Former poker player and now quiz showchampion Alex Jacob has shown his abilities on the quiz show Jeopardy! Ona couple of occasions. He is the 2015 Tournament of Champions victor – in whichhe took down a cool $250,000 (along with his $151,802 for originally winning onthe show) – and was one of the leaders of the Team Tournament this year on theshow. It seems that Jacob likes to keep his skills honed as, most recently, hetargeted another online trivia show and came out a big winner.
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Taking Down the HQ Jackpot
So I play as my bankroll combined is 1500€ together. Anyway I have never been more than€20 net negative in poker overall at the beginning. My goal is reaching NL100 in 6-12 months investing 4-6 hours a day. 50% time invested in studying (right now watching video courses in poker and studying my HUD database).
For a little over a year, the onlinetrivia game HQ has been growing its audience by leaps and bounds. With thisgrowth has come an increase in the prizes that the site gives away, loads ofcash and sometimes even other prizes for their competitors. Literally hundredsof thousands of people come together online daily and battle it out for theseprizes.
Of late, HQ has been awarding some of thebiggest prizes in its existence. Called “Jackpot” games, the players have theoption to resign from the game at a certain point – and are awarded a smallcash prize for their efforts – or they can continue onward to reach a bigger prize.The prize on Monday night was $125,000 and the players had to answer 25straight questions to be able to grab a piece of the pie.
- Im 30 years old semi pro poker player ( still have my office job for now). No need to say i need to stay focus for extended period of time and able to deal with anxiety / stress. I workout 4-5 times a week. I started to take cold shower. I still cant form the habit of meditate but i will get to it eventually.
- A semi-professional player who makes a living out of playing poker. An inside straight draw. An example of a gutshot straight draw (also known as belly buster straight draw) is to have 4578, in an attempt to draw a 6. To enter the pot cheaply by just calling the blind rather than raising. Also called limp.
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At the end of the questions on Monday night, six players remained in the game and were awarded prizes of just over $20,000. While this wasn’t the largest prize ever given to a single player on the site (earlier this year a singular player earned a $100,000 payday), the $20K was a pretty nice chunk of change. But, since everyone in HQ uses on-screen nicknames, the winners weren’t known…unless you happened on a Twitter conversation later that evening.
Fellow Jeopardy Champion Outs Jacob
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Jacob was asked over his Twitter feed by afellow Jeopardy! Champion, Jackie Fuchs (also known to many as JackieFox, the former bassist for the groundbreaking 70s all-female band TheRunaways), whether he was the one who had earned the prize on HQ. As you cansee, Jacob was coy about the answer but then almost all but confirmed it:
Jacob has been very open about how his formerlife as a poker professional prepared him for the travails of Jeopardy! and,perhaps, dealing with the rapid-fire questions on HQ. “Themost challenging aspect was probably just dealing mentally with the high stakesand the knowledge that I could win the tournament if I played well,” he statedto Variety after winning the Tournament of Champions in 2015. “The onething I had going for me is that I’ve played for a lot of money on national TVbefore. The thing that makes ‘Jeopardy’ different than poker, though, is thatthere’s always another poker tournament, but you only get one Tournament ofChampions.”
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While Jacob has been notable for his performances in the trivia arena, his achievements arguably paled in comparison to another Jeopardy! alum and a Las Vegas denizen, sports bettor James Holzhauer. Holzhauer went on a 33-game run this summer on the popular syndicated show, earning $2,464,216. It was Holzhauer’s aggressive approach to the game that has had many people reexamining the strategies and philosophies of Jeopardy! and whether players with a little less concern for risk have an advantage on the program.
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While many might not think $20,000 is all that much, in the world of HQ it is a sizeable chunk of money. Jacob has also shown that he’s still got the skills that carried him to the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions victory. How long might it be until Jacob takes on Holzhauer – and, of course, other champions – in a solo match?