Monday 17th: Jean
Winnings: £5,500
Dealt at: 8-box
Highest offer: £5,500 (11-box and 8-box)
Box value: £500
Not much to say here, except a good result from a sensible decision. And that's all we really want.
Tuesday 18th: Tony
Winnings: 50p
Opened the box
Highest offer: £12,500 (8-box)
Box value: £100 (swapped for 50p)
Tony began by saying he was after the £250,000, but the Banker didn't believe him! However, it became clear that Tony wasn't bluffing, and, although the £250,000 became very exposed, the Banker took him seriously. £12,500 was a good offer considering only the £250,000 was higher. Whether Tony meant to gamble, or just felt like he had to go for it after what he'd said earlier, we'll never know. Still, he took his crash to 50p very well in his stride, and that's good to see. You shouldn't gamble if you can't cope with it going wrong.
Wednesday 19th: Laura
Winnings: £22,000
Dealt at: 8-box
Highest offer: £22,000 (8-box)
Box value: £3,000
Another Banker spanking from a sensible call. Not much else to say, except it carried on the tradition of players called Laura doing well on Deal, with all of them winning at least £10,000!
Thursday 20th: Rich
Winnings: £22,000
Friday 21st: Sarah
Winnings: £22,000
Dealt at: 2-box
Highest offer: £22,000 (8-box and 2-box)
Box value: £100,000
For a while, it looked like Rich should've dealt at 8-box, when the £250,000 and £50,000 went after he turned the offer down. But he managed to keep the £100,000 to the end, with the 1p, which led to a return to £22,000. Shame that his perfectly reasonable call didn't pay off, but it was certainly a tense and exciting game. Not quite as tense and exciting, though, as...
Friday 21st: Sarah
Winnings: £35,000
Opened the box
Highest offer: £42,000 (2-box)
Box value: £35,000
...the first Power 5 win for four months! Sarah did advocate gambling quite a bit on the wings, and I was half dreading that she may make some questionable calls. Good to see, therefore, that her big win came after a brave, but reasonable 5-box gamble of £8,000. It's a shame Sarah didn't swap for £50,000, given that she said she thought she had £35,000 in her box, but, at those stakes, I guess it didn't really matter that much.
Sunday 23rd: Pat
Winnings: £50
Winnings: £50
Opened the box
Highest offer: £13,500 (11-box)
Box value: £50
Shame that such a good week for the show had to end like this. Also a shame that the game fell apart after, what was, quite a good 11-box offer was rejected, though it wasn't totally foolish is going on.
But, overall, a very good week for the show. The best for a while. And now we get a week of Christmas themed shows, starting tomorrow. Should be interesting!
I watched Tony's and Sarah's game, or most of them. Thought Sarah was lucky when she gambled at 5-box, but earlier when she turned down 22k and then knocked out the top two I think she had good reason to no-deal, so overall some reasonable calls she made. Maybe she felt that turning down 22k and accepting 8k was wrong. It paid off, though!
ReplyDeleteTony, on the other hand... and all those people who chase shadows and get nothing for their trouble - I have no sympathy. I was so pleased frankly when he got the 50p box. Such brazen greed with money deserves nothing back I think. I'd jump at the chance to pick up 12.5k for doing nothing much at all and, while he may have taken it well at the time, I bet he'll have nightmares later about throwing away possibly the easiest money he'll ever get a chance to win.
Maybe so James. There was another guy called Tony who won 50p in January 2009, after he turned down £40,000 at 5-box; he appeared to take it well on screen, but another contestant reported on the forum afterwards that he was shattered backstage.
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