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The seemingly unbeatable “Jeopardy!” champion pulled off yet another win.
James Holzhauer emerged victorious once again during Thursday night’s episode of the storied game show.
The professional sports gambler from Las Vegas ended the Final Jeopardy of his 31st straight game with $58,612.
That sum brings his total earnings to a whopping $2,382,583 — but he’s still a runner-up in the record books.
In 2004, “Jeopardy!” legend Ken Jennings’ racked up a historic — and unprecedented, until now — $2,520,700 during 74 straight regular-season matches.
Thursday night’s game puts Holzhauer within S138,117 of Jennings’ record. Given his current average of $77,501 in winnings per match, experts expect the 34-year-old to knock Jennings out of the top spot on Monday.
His win streak has drawn critics, who say his aggressive playing style is boring or, worse, mean. On his podcast released Thursday, former NFL pro Pat McAfee asked Holzhauer how he felt that some contestants think he’s “rigging the game.”
“I don’t think it’s a problem, but I’m not a traditionalist,” Holzhauer responded. “I’m not doing anything that’s outside the rules of “Jeopardy!” Maybe you could argue it’s outside the spirit, I guess. But they’ve laid out the rules. They know that people can come in and do things like this. And they decided it’s a more fun game this way. And really, you know, there are plenty of haters, but viewership is still way up.”
Even Jennings, widely considered the No. 1 player of all time, is rooting for him. But he said he’s “astounded” at Holzhauer’s money-accruing speed.
“For 15 years, I have thought somebody was going to make a run at this record, because I always knew it could be done,” Jennings told “Good Morning America” earlier this week. “I was there. I saw it happen. What I did not expect was somebody could make a run at the cash record in, like, a third the time.”
Last week, a technology consultant from Manhattan, Nate Scheffey, almost beat Holzhauer — and observed firsthand his bottom-of-the-board clue selection, aggressive wagers and his flawless buzzer timing.
He thinks Holzhauer will rack up the cash to beat Jennings but ultimately fall short of the Seattle-based author’s game count.
“I definitely think he’s going to beat Ken’s money total, because he’s pretty close already,” Scheffey tells The Post. “But that 74-game record is truly incredible. It’s one of those things that happens in sports where it’s like, almost unbelievable that it happened. And it couldn’t happen again.”



