'Jeopardy!' superstar testing his gambling skills in the World Series of Poker

Fox News ^ | 23 June 2019 | David Aaro

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"Jeopardy!" star James Holzhauer may have put down the buzzer, but now he's picking up his poker chips and heading to the Rio Convention Center in Las Vegas to test his luck in the World Series of Poker.

Holzhauer, 34, will participate in two events on Monday, the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'Em Super Turbo Bounty tournament and the $1,000 buy-in Tag Team No-Limit Hold’Em.

Poker isn't anything new to Holzhauer, who joked that he majored in the sport while enrolled at the University of Illinois, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. Holzhauer says he was convinced to enter by Hall of Fame poker player and commentator, Mike Sexton.

“I decided to enter because Mike Sexton contacted me and offered to sponsor my buy-ins. I don’t have any plans to enter another WSOP event beyond those two,” Holzhauer told the Review-Journal in an email. “I played online poker semi-professionally in the early 2000s, but I don’t intend to make a career of it now, as I’m sure I wouldn’t be good enough at it to justify forgoing other opportunities.”

Holzhauer says he stopped playing online poker due to a government crackdown in 2011 and hasn't played in eight years.

[Garth Tater]

I don't think it's so much the aggression that has changed the game as it is the advancement of gaming theory. If you are sitting at poker table these days don't know what GTO means there are plenty of young players that will explain the concepts to you while they are taking your chips.

There are still plenty of older pros in the mid-stakes no-limit hold'em games (5-10, 10-20 and 25-50) that are making a good living but it's a hard game to stay current in and takes a different mind set than it used to - twenty years ago no one studied poker, they played poker. Those days are long gone.

[Home-of-the-lazy-dog]

It’s all good ‘til Johnny Lee Walker, “Card Mechanic” comes stollin’ in. He’ll take your money like Grant took Richmond!”

With regards to Charley Daniels and “Trudy”.

[WASCWatch]

What amazes me is that Daniel Negraneu can figure out exactly what his opponent has as his hole cards on a regularly basis.

[oust the louse]

Or if you look around the table and you don’t see a donk...that donk might be you. LOL