Far from lucky, he has big ba!!s when he bets. His average right now is $71,000 per day, Ken Jennings was $37,000
And his last name has “Holz” in it.... but he lives in Vegas, so he probably just hoards trivia info and not so much firewood.
Coulda said that about Jennings too... Some folks are simply excellent sponges of vast amounts of facts, trivial or otherwise. Some folks are sponges for other stuff... like you and will711 ....
Zactly. Being able to quickly retrieve it is also important. I liken my memory retrieval to an old 5.5" floppy. This guy's brain is more like an NVMe SSD.
I seen an "interview" with him and Jennings. Holz said Jennings was better on the buzzer so he could not beat him, no buzzer Holz would win. Jennings said he didn't have the guts to bet like that.