Monday 12th: Jo
Winnings: £2,700
Dealt at: 5-box
Highest offer: £8,500 (17-box and
14-box)
Box value: £20,000
Unlucky really. After taking out
the top three in a single round (the seventh time that’s happened in live
play), there wasn’t really much chance of a recovery. And Jo’s subsequent 5-box
bailout for a respectable £2,700 wasn’t daft; just unlucky that the proveout
went against her.
Tuesday 13th: Tommy
Winnings: £5
Opened the box
Highest offer: £8,500 (17-box)
Box value: £5
Once again, someone opens their box
to a blue. But there was more to it than that. Tommy’s daughter had written him
a good luck card with Box 20 on the front containing £20,000. And so, it was
coincidental for Tommy to select Box 20. And so, when faced with a final two of
£5 and £20,000, Tommy turned down his offer of £6,500. He may well not have
gambled if the card premonition hadn’t been there. A tense and exciting game,
despite the heart-breaking ending.
Wednesday 14th: Charlie
Winnings: £13,500
Dealt at: 8-box
Highest offer: £20,000 (5-box)
Box value: £100
Now this is more like it. It may
not have been a Banker Spanking, but for someone’s decision to eventually be
justified after several games gone wrong was a good enough result in itself. In
the following day’s game, Noel mistakenly referred to Charlie’s game as a
Banker Spanking, and was subsequently punished by the Banker for doing so!
Thursday 15th: Teresa
Winnings: £30,000
Dealt at: 8-box
Highest offer: £45,000 (5-box)
Box value: £10
Like Charlie’s game, a deal that
turned out to be one round too soon, but was ultimately justified. And, when a
player only goes one round too soon, somehow missing out on more money doesn’t
feel so bad. Especially when you have £30,000!
Friday 16th: David
Winnings: £9,000
Dealt at: 8-box
Highest offer: £71,000 (2-box)
Box value: £100,000
Another incredibly unlucky
proveout. David’s decision to bailout at £9,000 wasn’t a terribly stupid one
considering it was a precarious board. So cruel that the board would’ve totally
turned around leaving him with a final two of £50,000 and £100,000.
Saturday 17th: Hazel
Winnings: £24,500
Dealt at: 8-box
Highest offer: £104,500 (2-box)
Box value: £250,000
Yet again, a sensible deal is made
to look bad by the jackpot being in the box. Hazel’s decision to deal at
£24,500 was sensibly seeing as only £75,000 and £250,000 were higher. Just
unlucky that the Jackpot came to the table for the fifth time in under three
weeks.
The show seems to be in a phase of
people making sensible decisions, only for the proveout to go against them. As
the Banker pointed out, people still have been winning huge sums of money, even
though they haven’t been taking the box. Also, it should be noted that, with
the exception of Smithy, all the players who have sold the jackpot recently
have made a sensible decision for the board, and have simply been unlucky.
As I’ve said many times before, we
can only hope for better things to come. We usually get a couple of decent games
in late November, so let’s hope for a few more this year.
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