He bested Ken Jennings' one-day record by raking in $77,000 in a single game of Jeopardy! But don't call his success "luck." He trained to win.
Roger Craig, who recently wowed on a Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions game by betting everything on two back-to-back Daily Doubles, took his game-show training seriously. As a result, he went from $9,000 to $18,000 to $36,000 in two turns.
"No one has hit both Daily Doubles, on back-to-back selections, for all-in bets. And $18,000, as far as anyone can remember, is the biggest single Daily Double, ever," Esquire's Chris Jones writes of Craig's incredible win.
Watch the history-making moment here.
The superstar contestant's trivia skills, Jones writes, were honed "by following a rigorous course of self-analysis and study, focusing his energies on the blind spots in his knowledge and training his brain to think quickly."
This computer scientist from Delaware developed a web tool to help him track and analyze his practice-question performances. His training app took him through thousands of archived questions and answers.
Watch Craig explain his knowledge tracking tool below.
Luck comes when preparation meets opportunity. Craig and his game-show fortune prove that yet again.
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