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As a general rule, the less time a bookmaker has to set his odds the softer the odds are going to be.

The last real job I had I was 16-years-old slinging fried chicken in my hometown of Naperville, Ill.

The aggressive betting on the daily doubles is one of my trademarks.

I think there's a mental block for betting big amounts that doesn't exist for me but it does for other people.

I was always good at video games like 'Guitar Hero,' which require the player to press buttons at precise times.

Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than 'Jeopardy!'

In gambling, you usually start to go wrong when you deviate from your pregame strategy.

Like Dave Mustaine, I ain't superstitious.

I want to not lose what makes me be me.

Getting onto 'Jeopardy!' was a pet project my whole life, so it was something I was willing to work really hard on.

I went to Illinois. Most people think I went to Princeton or something. But I was never a diligent student.

My source of income is sports betting. I have some investments also.

Nobody likes to lose.

I've found that in an adult reference book, if it's not a subject I'm interested in, I just can't get into it. I was thinking, what is the place in the library I can go to to get books tailored to make things interesting for uninterested readers? Boom. The children's section.

The fact that I win and lose money all the time helps desensitize me, so I can write down $60,000 as the Final Jeopardy wager and not be trembling at the thought of losing that money.

Jeopardy!' is a bigger deal than I realized.

Fame came at me a lot quicker and stronger than I imagined.

I've already begun giving to children's nonprofits in the Las Vegas area.

There were times in school where I would say, 'I should go to class.' But I could make $100 playing online poker if I didn't go.

Ryne Sandberg was my favorite player growing up.

I'm from Naperville.

If you believe in yourself, you don't have to do things the same way everyone else is doing it.

It was always my plan to go big on 'Jeopardy!,' and I'm glad I was able to stick to the plan under pressure.

The best bet I made that won was on the Tampa Bay Rays - who had never had a winning season in franchise history - to advance to the 2008 World Series.

Lots of people recognize me now.

I think most people who bother to study 'Jeopardy!' game theory are going to arrive at similar conclusions about how to best play the game. Not everyone is going to take that step, of course.

I often see sports teams playing to force overtime instead of trying to win in regulation, and it makes me shake my head.

I did want to lock each game up before Final Jeopardy, to avoid losing to a bad bounce in that round.

I hope that my 'Jeopardy' run helps destigmatize sports betting because I have certainly dealt with some stigmas.

There are big advantages to having a lot of chips early on in a poker tournament. You can make plays that other people can't.

There's times in a football game where a team goes for a big TD pass. If you don't take a risk like that, you're not going to win.

I've learned more about animals just by reading to my kid than I ever did studying.

The 'Classics Illustrated' series was an excellent primer in literature, and I also really enjoyed Zachary Hamby's mythology books for teens.

Easily the hardest 'Jeopardy!' categories to study in the kids' section are the so-called 'trashy' pop culture ones.

My parents read me some typical children's books: 'Green Eggs and Ham,' 'The Little Engine That Could,' 'Peter Rabbit.' But I quickly developed a preference for nonfiction books about baseball and math, by the likes of Bill James and Martin Gardner.

It's really funny seeing all these media depictions of me as an intellectual because I'm a connoisseur of low culture.

Anytime you learn something new, you're just trying to file it away - might be useful one day.

As a sports fan, I like the one-and-done playoff setups of the NFL and NCAA, but a best-of-seven gives the favorite a much better chance of prevailing in the end.

In Chicagoland, they had afternoon 'Jeopardy!' and afternoon Cubs games when they were at home, so that was basically what I would watch and it's what got me interested in Jeopardy! and sports statistics at an early age.

I kind of didn't look at anyone else's strategy for 'Jeopardy!' I thought, I'm going to build this from the ground up... If I had never seen a 'Jeopardy!' game played before, what would I have to do to play it to maximize my winnings, maximize my chances of winning?

The first bet I remember was on the Chargers in Super Bowl 29 with my classmates. I lost a lot of weeks' allowance.

It definitely helps that I can bet big with ice water in my veins.

I have doubted myself on several Daily Double answers.

I don't involve personal biases in my handicapping or wagering. I bet against the Cubs in the 2016 World Series, which tainted the victory a little. It was still incredible to watch.

I really underestimated how many people are paying attention to 'Jeopardy' and what's out there.

I figured, maybe one in five, one in 10 people would recognize me. But no, it's everywhere, especially in Las Vegas. I think the city's kind of embraced me which is good.

There's a lot of attention on me which can be good, it can be bad. Sometimes my daughter's acting up in public and I really wish I could become anonymous for a few minutes.

I'm a pro sports gambler. You have winning days and you have losing days. But you know if you've got the right strategy, you're going to get it in the end.

There are times when you'll only have one or two seconds to decide if you're going to bet on something and you need to be decisive. You need to do math quickly in your head.

I think if you're talking about 'Jeopardy' style, I'm not afraid to throw the deep ball, even if it might get picked off, so Deshaun Watson I think would be the best comparison.

When I was a kid, I would turn on the television as soon as I got home from school.

I first got into gambling because it was a way for me to leverage my love of baseball statistics. For the first few years, that's all I would focus on.

When I watched 'Jeopardy!' as a kid, I would primarily watch with my grandmother. She was the most beautiful person the world has ever seen. Her first language wasn't English, so she couldn't follow along well, but she wanted to share this experience with me since she saw it was something I really liked.

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