A New York City bartender’s on-screen antics and big bets while competing on ‘Jeopardy!’ are winning him cash to go along with his cult following.
By the end of Thursday’s show, Austin Rogers became the first ‘streaker’ of the season and had won nine nights in a row and $332,400.
‘Jeopardy!’ said that total put him at fifth on the show’s list of all-time regular season money winners.
New York City bartender, Austin Rogers, has scores a legion of fans after he won nine days in a row and more than $300,000 on Jeopardy!
By day 6, Rogers had racked up $257,700. ‘Jeopardy!’ said that total put him at fifth on the show’s list of all-time regular season money winners
By the end of Thursday’s show, Rogers (pictured) became the first ‘streaker’ of the season and had won nine nights in a row and $332,400
Fans are singing his praises on Twitter by using the hashtag #AustinOnJeopardy
Rogers has done it while sporting wild hair and a bushy beard and making animated gestures after correct answers.
He’s also making big wagers. Rogers won a whopping $34,000 bet on the show’s ‘Final Jeopardy’ segment Tuesday.
‘When I won my first match for $36,000, or 33, I can’t quite remember, I figured every game after this is just gravy,’ Rogers told ABC 7.
‘Bet big because I already felt I had finished what I had set out to do.’
By day 6, Rogers had racked up $257,700.
Fans are singing his praises on Twitter by using the hashtag #AustinOnJeopardy. Rogers also posted an impromptu video on his Twitter ahead of last Monday night’s show.
He told Good Morning America that the secret to his success is uncovering patterns in clues by watching hundreds of ‘Jeopardy!’ episodes.
Rogers is originally from Pound Ridge in Westchester County, New York. He has a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College in Minnesota.
Another Twitter user wrote that ‘there are two types of people in this world: people that #austinonjeopardy and people that don’t matter’
Rogers (pictured) also posted an impromptu video on his Twitter ahead of last Monday night’s show
He told Good Morning America that the secret to his success is uncovering patterns in clues by watching hundreds of ‘Jeopardy!’ episodes