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09-24-2010 , 11:05 PM

#501

JustSomeJackass

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The female sportswriter wrote a decent article about her Jeopardy experience here:

http://outofbounds.nbcsports.com/201....html.php#more

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09-24-2010 , 11:23 PM

#502

mc4chess

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Originally Posted by stinkypete

her bet is optimal if she thinks she's <50% to get it right

wrong because shes gonna have to get it right to win anyways

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09-24-2010 , 11:33 PM

#503

stinkypete

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hmmm didnt realize they dont keep the monies if they dont win. nm.

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09-24-2010 , 11:39 PM

#504

Nucleon

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I would be super pissed off if I lost by a dollar! If I was the woman who was the champion going into it I would have bet all my money to try to get to first place.

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09-25-2010 , 12:08 AM

#505

g-bebe

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Originally Posted by JustSomeJackass

The female sportswriter wrote a decent article about her Jeopardy experience here:

http://outofbounds.nbcsports.com/201....html.php#more

bah. I hate watching multiple-day champions get beaten by some fishcake who gets slaughtered in their second show.

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09-25-2010 , 01:52 AM

#506

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The female sportswriter wrote a decent article about her Jeopardy experience here:

http://outofbounds.nbcsports.com/201....html.php#more

Wow, she's a helluva writer. Thanks for posting that, I enjoyed it so much, I'm thinking about checking out her other links at the bottom of the page. Seriously.

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Scott Wells, a medievalist and opera fan who had to be hoping for a category about loneliness,

Quote from me ITT:

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Originally Posted by youtalkfunny

BTW, after watching the clip again, I was reminded that the, um, "fem" guy in the middle found a last-second DD. He couldn't take the lead, but at least he made a big enough bet to get within reach if he got it right. Unfortunately for him, he was asked to name the Russian guy who invented the helicopter. Luckily for me, I read all the macho Tom Clancy books during the cold war, and I was quite familiar with the Sikorski helicopter. This guy on Jeopardy, however, clearly had no idea, and I remember thinking, "Too bad--that's way too manly a question for this fruit." Losing that big bet crippled him, and just his luck, FJ category was Musical Theater (which he got right, only he didn't have any chips left to bet).

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09-27-2010 , 10:05 AM

#507

youtalkfunny

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I got a Tweet from Roger Craig today. Seriously.

I saw his Twitter only had about 100 followers, so I took a shot and sent him an "Atta boy!" I also asked where I could find his blog, as he had promised to blog about why he screwed up his FJ question.

He wrote back this morning:

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@youtalkfunny thanks bobby, you can find it here: http://rogcraig.com/blog

Cliff Notes from Blog post:

Spoiler:

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09-29-2010 , 07:52 PM

#508

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Hot chick on jeopardy tonight, game was particularly bad. She also made a pointless bet on the last daily double.

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09-29-2010 , 09:30 PM

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Hot chick on jeopardy tonight, game was particularly bad. She also made a pointless bet on the last daily double.

thanks for posting pics and describing the pointless bet

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09-30-2010 , 11:07 AM

#510

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Yeah that DD bet was pretty awful. Leader had about 12K, woman who got the DD had 2800, she bet 1000. Was really weird, with just about a minute to play, you have to go all in there and hope to hit a 2K question to pull you within half of the leader.

Was the leaders FJ wager because she was thinking she was terrible at the category? If she knew anything about the category, she could have made a much better score with a good wager, but I guess considering her answer it turned out for the best.

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09-30-2010 , 11:16 AM

#511

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thanks for posting pics and describing the pointless bet

seriously could that post have been any worse

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09-30-2010 , 11:21 AM

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Wow, she's a helluva writer. Thanks for posting that, I enjoyed it so much, I'm thinking about checking out her other links at the bottom of the page. Seriously.

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Scott Wells, a medievalist and opera fan who had to be hoping for a category about loneliness

I was about to post almost exactly the same thing, with the exact same quote.

I also liked this one:

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the only "Famous Poet" I'm familiar with frequently uses phrase like "There once was a man from Enis"

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09-30-2010 , 11:52 AM

#513

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seriously could that post have been any worse

Yes, it was more an alert if you can catch this episode thing. Here is the girl.

http://jeopardy.com/showguide/thisweek/

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09-30-2010 , 12:40 PM

#514

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Yes, it was more an alert if you can catch this episode thing. Here is the girl.

http://jeopardy.com/showguide/thisweek/

And name? They're all pretty miserable in the headshots.

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09-30-2010 , 07:52 PM

#515

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hoping the old guy today was roger 2.0 because he ****ed the 2nd round.

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09-30-2010 , 09:37 PM

#516

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And name? They're all pretty miserable in the headshots.

We are talking about Jeopardy contestants here, not Ms. Universe.

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09-30-2010 , 10:47 PM

#517

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Originally Posted by cookieb

We are talking about Jeopardy contestants here, not Ms. Universe.

He's asking you who you're talking about. So were all the other responses to your earlier post.

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10-01-2010 , 03:21 PM

#518

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hoping the old guy today was roger 2.0 because he ****ed the 2nd round.

quite an epic DJ round. Curious whether he got a lot of good categories or he can keep this up, cause he was pretty miserable in the jeopardy round.

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10-01-2010 , 03:33 PM

#519

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quite an epic DJ round. Curious whether he got a lot of good categories or he can keep this up, cause he was pretty miserable in the jeopardy round.

i think it takes a bit for people to get used to the signaling. as for his double jeopardy stomping, it seemed like he hit a cliff claven-esque round, got lucky that his opponents were dumb, and was able to master the signaling. i think he's an average champion and is probably a dog to win tonight.

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10-07-2010 , 06:05 PM

#520

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omfg todays jeopardy put me on legit tilt.

Stacks going into final jeopardy 11.4k, 10.4k and 2800 or something.

First bet like enough to cover 2nd by 1 or whatever which is fine, and 3rd bet something that shouldn't matter like 700. And now 2nd place bet 10.4k!!!!

Results: Everyone missed and the 2800 ended up winning. 2nd has to bet somewhere between like 0-4799 anything else is just pretty awful

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10-07-2010 , 06:50 PM

#521

Jim14Qc

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your post puts me on tilt imo.

Didn't see it, but you imply that player #1 will bet exactly the way he did when deciding what #2 should bet. #2 did not have that info.

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10-08-2010 , 01:57 AM

#522

Nucleon

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A contestant the other night put Animal Planet down for her answer on the final question, when the question asked for the title of a show! lol

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10-08-2010 , 03:54 AM

#523

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Originally Posted by Jim14Qc

your post puts me on tilt imo.

Didn't see it, but you imply that player #1 will bet exactly the way he did when deciding what #2 should bet. #2 did not have that info.

you act like its a mystery what the leader will bet. do you really think the leader is going to bet an amout that will leave his with less than twice second place's total?

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10-08-2010 , 03:59 AM

#524

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A contestant the other night put Animal Planet down for her answer on the final question, when the question asked for the title of a show! lol

who cares? i prefer when someone gives an answer that is moronic than when they give no answer at all, because no answer is the most moronic response possible. the only reason not to respond when you have no idea what the answer is is the denigration from people like you who go, "durr, cleveland wasnt a 20th century president--what an idiot!" but you would never say anything about someone who says "i dont know."

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10-08-2010 , 11:32 AM

#525

youtalkfunny

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That Animal Planet question was BS, any way. No wonder no contestant got it right.

The subject was "Prime Time TV", and the answer was "Cops", a syndicated show which has never aired in prime time in the three different tv markets where I have lived.

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