Deal or No Deal - 17th-25th November

Well, this was a better week than last week, even if frustrating at times.

Monday 19th: Marc

Winnings: £10,000

Dealt at: 5-box

Highest offer: £15,000 (17-box)

Box value: £20,000

Once again, the player makes a decision that is perfectly reasonable for the board in question, only for the proveout to go against them.

Tuesday 20th: Zeny

Winnings: £5,000

Dealt at: 5-box

Highest offer: £15,000 (2-box)

Box value: £50,000

Ditto.

Wednesday 21st: Pat

Winnings: £2,000

Dealt at: 5-box

Highest offer: £2,000 (5-box)

Box value: 10p

We wait almost four weeks for a Banker spanking, and we finally get one, from a £2,000 win! Pat had a really unlucky game that just looked like another typical trainwreck. But an all-blue fifth round got her a bailout of £2,000, which she took, and, thus broke the record for the lowest Banker spanking achieved by a deal  (the lowest from a box opening is £750, achieved by Becky earlier this year). Even though it was a low tariff win, it was good to finally see a Banker spanking after almost four weeks without one.

Thursday 22nd: Deepa

Winnings: 1,000,000 rupees (£11,857)

Dealt at: 8-box

Highest offer: 3,000,000 rupees (£35,571) (5-box)

Box value: 1p

For a while, it looked like Deepa might join Josh in the ’14-box deal’ club. That she made it to 8-box shocked many. The Banker recognised her courage, as was shown in the decent 8-box offer that came after some rather low offers, which was presented in Deepa’s native currency, just to try and show to her the enormity of the money. She did go one round too soon, but at least she avoided the dreaded 1p club, so still a good result.

Friday 23rd: Mathew

Winnings: £10,000

Dealt at: 5-box

Highest offer: £13,000 (17-box and 2-box)

Box value: £50

Nothing terribly memorable here except the Banker’s mocking of Mathew’s tatty dress sense, which resulted in him lending Mathew one of his old suits for him to wear!

Sunday 25th: Kirsti

Winnings: £5,000

Dealt at: 8-box

Highest offer: £8,000 (14-box)

Box value: £750

Kirsti’s decision to deal at £5,000 may have been cautious, but understandable with just the £250,000 left higher. It may have statistically been a poor decision, but going on and crashing to a blue would have been worse, so she got a good result for herself, which is what really matters.

We seem to be doing better now than we were earlier in the month, with most players getting their decisions validated, eventually. Let’s hope things continue to improve, and we get some more, higher value Banker spankings next week.