One of the greats! Jamie Ding set another record on Jeopardy! that tied him with James Holzhauer and Matt Amodio.
Ding, a bureaucrat from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, returned for his 22nd game on Monday, April 13. He went into it with a total of $609,000. This put him at number six for the highest winnings in regular play on the Leaderboard of Legends.
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