"Jeopardy!" contestant Matt Amodio has moved up to third place and will advance to the first game of the "Jeopardy! Masters" tournament semifinals on Monday, May 22. Amodio will play James Holzhauer and Andrew He, who are in first and second, respectively.

After ending Friday's game in the red, Amodio made a comeback on Monday's "Masters" game and won by less than $400.

During Game 9 of the 2023 "Jeopardy! Masters" tournament Monday, the Yale University alumnus took the lead in the Double Jeopardy round after scoring the Daily Double and finished with the highest of 16,799 points. Amy Schneider was the only player to correctly guess the Final Jeopardy answer, but she did not bet enough and ended with 16,401 points, while Mattea Roach finished with 13,599 points.

The "Jeopardy! Masters" tournament features six champions from previous seasons who face off against one other for the winning title and ranks contestants on a point system. Each game, winners receive three points, runners up get two and third-place contestants get zero.

Monday's win put Amodio in fourth place on the leaderboard with six points. Holzhauer is in first place with 12 points, He is in second with nine and Mattea Roach is in third with seven.

Amodio is two points ahead of Schneider, who was previously tied with Amodio in match points after Friday's game, and four points ahead of Sam Buttrey. In Friday's match against Holzhauer and Roach, Amodio went down to zero dollars after missing the Daily Double and ended the round with -2,000 points, evidentially failing to qualify for Final Jeopardy.

He will play Holzhauer and Schneider on Tuesday.

After Wednesday's episode, the top four players on the leaderboard will move on to the semifinals, which will air May 22 and 23, and the winner will be crowned on May 24 after the finals.

Amodio first appeared on "Jeopardy!" season 37 and won 38 consecutive games in 2021. The streak placed him third on the list of all-time regular season winnings with $1,518,601 and eventually ended on Oct. 11, 2021.

He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University in 2022 and is a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, according to his LinkedIn page. In a 2021 opinion piece Amodio wrote for Hearst Connecticut Media Group, Amodio said he's proud to represent Connecticut and touched "by how my community has supported me."

To prepare for games, he reads Wikipedia articles for entertainment and forms trivia questions out of the content.

"Trivia has always mattered to me, because in a broader sense knowledge matters to me. I had instilled in me a love of learning from my parents, and I have carried that with me everywhere I go. I get a lot of joy out of learning things, any things, about the world," Amodio said.