Trailing by 6000? Confusing, you're talking about how far she trailed Sam when the whole point is she essentially conceded first place to Sam by not going big on the DD. The $50,000 you're talking about is what she was thus playing Veronica for, and if she did wipe out, she would have trailed Veronica by just $3200, still had control and another DD to play, and had an $8000+ advantage over Veronica from day 1.Volante wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 11:14 amSure is easy to shoulda woulda when you know how easy the clue is once it's revealed!
In another universe she could've been trailing by 6000 with a DD still on the board. By that point there's already been 5 triple stumpers including the clue right before DD2.
I mean, if $50,000 means nothing to you, go right ahead...
The point isn't to second guess what she should have done because the clue turned out to be easy, it's that it was likely her only (or at least best) chance to win. She finished her J! career (at least for now) 18/19 on DDs and 12/13 on FJ, both incredible marks, and had she been willing to bet on herself and go all-in either in the FJ Thursday or DD2 Friday, she very likely would have been the champion. If she was happy to play for second place then that is certainly her right but kind of a bummer, as those DD and FJ numbers are simply phenomenal and she would have been quite the deserving champion.