Thirty Days Hath Jamie Ding On Jeopardy…Barely

Jamie Ding Made History Yesterday… By The Skin Of His Teeth

The moment Jamie Ding passed Mattea Roach for fifth place on all time win list the question was whether he could make it to 30 wins a mark that only James Holzhauer, Matt Amodion, Amy Schneider and Ken Jennings himself have managed to reach. The question was could Jamie reach it and how much money he’d have when he got there?

It was a huge struggle for Jamie just to get past Cris Panullo when it came to passing him for fifth place on the all-time money list. Cris needed just 21 games to with $748,000. It took Jamie 27 wins to get up to $753,000 — and even then he had to back into it. On that day he wagered $13,000 on a Daily Double late in Double Jeopardy and got it wrong and just barely finished with the narrowest of runaways, having to guarantee it by getting the last clue of the game correct. Even then he got Final Jeopardy incorrect for the tenth time in his original run and ‘merely’ won $21,000.

For the three players other then Jennings who managed 30 wins the 28th win was a significant one for all of them. For Matt Amodio and Amy Schneider, they both crossed the $1 million threshold. For James Holzhauer, he would cross the $2 million threshold. By contrast for the first time in nine straight games Jamie Ding didn’t have a runaway victory and only…