High-risk, high reward.

That's been James Holzhauer's strategy during his impressive run on the trivia show "Jeopardy!" The professional gambler has won 32 straight games, with $2,462,216 in prize money to show for it during his time on the show.

So is it really over?

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A video clip leaked online shows what claims to be the "Final Jeopardy" segment in the show's upcoming episode Monday. The question was:

The line “a great reckoning in a little room” in “As You Like It” is usually taken to refer to this author's premature death.

Before the answers are revealed, we see Holzhauer's score. With $23,400, he was ahead of one contestant by more than double that contestant's score but was behind another contestant by $3,200.

Holzhauer answered correctly with "Who is Kit Marlowe?" but he bet just $1,399. That moved his total to $24,799, still $1,801 behind the leader, Emma Boettcher. That number is less than a third of his average winnings per game. Host Alex Trebeck noted Holzhauer's small bet as being out of character.

"A modest one for the first time," Trebeck is heard saying off camera.

Boettcher answered correctly with "Who is Marlowe?" She wagered $20,000, blowing the 32-time champion out of the water.

"What a game. Oh my gosh," Trebeck says.

Who is Emma Boettcher?

If the video is accurate — and an employee of an Alabama affiliate that airs the show weekday mornings says it is — Boettcher is the new "Jeopardy!" champion. She's a librarian at the University of Chicago. Prior to that, she received her master's degree in Information Science at the University of North Carolina, according to her LinkedIn page.

On Monday's show, she told Trebeck that she did her master's paper on his show. Boettcher said she did "text mining experiments" to determine the difficulty of a clue.

"And what did you discover?" Trebeck asked.

"That it's very hard to do," Boettcher responded.

Before that research, Boettcher earned a degree in English Language and Literature from Princeton Unversity. She attended Conestoga High School in Berwyn, a suburb of Philadelphia, earning achievement as a National Merit Semifinalist and working on the sound team for a high school musical.

How close was James Holzhauer to beating Ken Jennings' record?

Holzhauer had been sprinting closer and closer to the legendary "Jeopardy!" contestant's record, but with Boettcher's win, it means he falls just short.

Should he have won Monday's contest, he would have had a total prize amount of $2,487,015. That's just $33,685 away from Ken Jennings' record of earnings of $2,520,700.

At the pace that Holzhauer had been earning winnings, he likely would have needed just one more game to come close or overtake that record. Jennings won the record-setting amount of prize money over 74 games in 2004. That's more than double the appearances Holzhauer made on the show.

USA TODAY contributed to this report.

Nate Chute is a producer with the USA Today Network. Follow him on Twitter at @nchute.