Even when James Holzhauer’s record, jaw-dropping run on “Jeopardy!” ended sooner than anyone expected, we knew it wouldn’t be the last we see of the player on the iconic show.
There was still the Tournament of Champions, and, wouldn’t you know it, Holzhauer is in the finals after another set of dominant performances. As luck would have it, a chance to avenge his loss to the woman who ended his original run awaits him.
That woman is a librarian named Emma Boettcher, who took down Holzhauer, a Las Vegas-based professional sports gambler, right before he was set to surpass Ken Jennings for the all-time winnings record on the regular iteration of the show.