I've watched Jeopardy for the longest time and I've never quite gotten why people who obviously don't know the answer to the Final Jeopardy question still wager a large amount of money that they're obviously gonna lose. I get if its a blow out the runner ups don't really care but you'll see people well into the lead who don't know the answer betting like $10000 or up and actually end up losing altogether after their bet tanks their overall score enough to let someone else win who just happened to end up having a higher total after the fact. Why do people do this?
