James Holzhauer praises trans ‘Jeopardy!’ champ Amy Schneider

James Holzhauer said helium hasn’t watched “Jeopardy!” successful a while. But the Las Vegas nonrecreational sports bettor known arsenic “Jeopardy James” is good alert of Amy Schneider’s historical tally connected the fashionable quiz show.

Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California, has won 28 games and connected Friday became the archetypal pistillate successful the show’s past to gain much than $1 cardinal successful nontournament play.

Schneider besides is the archetypal transgender idiosyncratic to suffice for the show’s tourney of champions.

In a bid of tweets successful November, Schneider wrote that she “didn’t privation to marque excessively overmuch astir being trans, astatine slightest successful the discourse of the show.”

“I americium a trans woman, and I’m arrogant of that fact,” she posted. “But I’m a batch of different things, too!”

The lone different contestants to triumph much than $1 cardinal successful regular-season games are Ken Jennings, who won $2.52 cardinal during a 74-game triumph streak successful 2004; Holzhauer, who earned $2.46 cardinal during a 32-game triumph streak successful 2019; and Matt Amodio, who won $1.5 cardinal during his 38-game streak past year.

“Still not watching immoderate Jeopardy!, but Amy’s stats are unthinkable and she’d beryllium a formidable hostile for sure,” Holzhauer said successful an email to the Review-Journal.

A autochthonal of Naperville, Illinois, Holzhauer has the apical 10 spots connected the “Jeopardy!” single-game winnings list, including six wins of astatine slightest $100,000 and the grounds of $131,127.

Holzhauer is known arsenic “The High Roller” connected the crippled amusement “The Chase,” which airs Wednesdays connected ABC.

Schneider has won $1,019,001 during her winning streak.

“It feels amazing; it feels strange,” she said of reaching the milestone. “It’s not a sum of wealth I ever anticipated would beryllium associated with my name.”

“Jeopardy!” airs astatine 7 p.m. weekdays connected KLAS-TV, Channel 8.

Contact newsman Todd Dewey astatine tdewey@reviewjournal.com. Follow @tdewey33 connected Twitter.