Jeopardy! champion James Holzhauer has been added to the speaker lineup or this week’s 17th annual International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The UNLV International Gaming Institute, which is producing the four-day conference at Caesars Palace, added Holzhauer to a panel discussion on Thursday, May 30 with Andy Bloch, a professional poker player.
Bloch, who also lives in Las Vegas, was part of the MIT card-counting team in the 1990s, made famous in the book Bringing Down the House.
Holzhauer, who has won 23 straight matches and more than $1.7 million going into last week’s Jeopardy! show, will discuss how he attributes much of his game show success to sports betting.
Holzhauer’s emergence coincided with the first anniversary of the Supreme Court decision allowing widespread sports gambling outside Nevada. “That face happens to be clean-shaven and accompanied by tasteful button-down shirts and a math degree from the University of Illinois,” according to the Washington Post.
The panel will focus on the real-world applications of research and how experiences and knowledge in sports, sports betting, the game show, poker, and blackjack overlap with each other and with the world outside of gaming.
