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Originally Posted by JustSomeJackass
The lady that won this game did make a pretty poor daily double wager on the last daily double in Double Jeopardy. There were only a handful of questions left, and she had 7,800 compared to the leader's 26,000. She wagered 4,800.
Yeah, don't even try to get your score to more than half of your opponent with basically one category left. Keep that extra 3K just in case you get the question wrong...that will do you a lot of good. (the 2 categories with questions left were baseball and B-17 related, obv not strong categories for her as she clearly avoided them to that point.)
She did get the DD correct, and then luckboxed a baseball question (guessed Kenny Rogers due to obv. clue) and got to within striking distance and closed the deal in FJ...but still bad DD wager imo.
Yeah, the biggest errors are clearly in the DD wagers.
It's amazing that people use the anti-Bill Belichick logic to make such poor choices. Basically, they don't want to do anything to completely eliminate themselves from contention before the end, even if it meant giving yourself a much better chance to win.
The Air Force dude was very good at betting a lot when he needed to get ahead, and stayed on the show 5 days because of it. So many horrible errors when it comes to DD, where they bet so much it hurts them bad if they miss, but not enough to actually get an advantage from it.