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Holzhauer and his wife Melissa have given $10,000 to Communities in Schools of Nevada, and another $10,000 to Project 150 \u2013 a nonprofit that helps homeless and displaced high school students obtain food, clothing, hygienic necessities, and school supplies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Jeopardy! <\/i>host Alex Trebek says Holzhauer additionally gave $1,100 to a pancreatic cancer walk. The 78-year-old longtime host is currently battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He said last month that he’s in “near remission.”<\/p>\n
Holzhauer’s streak on Jeopardy! <\/i>helped give some credence to the notion that successful sports bettors aren’t simply gamblers \u2013 but educated individuals who can identify attractive odds.<\/p>\n
DraftKings analyst Adam Levitan tweeted earlier this month, “Mainstream world now understands professional gambler isn’t code for scum. Can be humble, gracious, family-oriented, honorable and wicked smart. Great run.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Professional sports bettor James Holzhauer, the man who went on a Jeopardy! run this year by winning 32 straight games and $2,464,216, didn’t find the same success this week at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Holzhauer played in the $1,500 buy-in Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em event yesterday. After a strong start, the Jeopardy! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":107746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
'Jeopardy!' James Holzhauer Unsuccessful in WSOP Tournaments<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n