Sunday, 13 January 2013
Deal or No Deal - 7th-13th January
Well, after a couple of pretty tough periods for the show, the New Year seems to have woken the show up. As it’s been a great week for the show.
Monday 7th: Paulina
Winnings: £21,000
Dealt at: 11-box (for £20,000)
Highest offer: £20,000 (11-box and 5-box)
Box value: £3,000
Why the extra £1,000? Well, Paulina won it on the Christmas Day show after her box had the 1p. So, technically, she couldn’t win a blue due to already having £1,000! Thus the Banker took her very seriously, which resulted in some very generous offers. Her 11-box deal was very reasonable, and it worked, sort of.
Tuesday 8th: Gary
Winnings: £20,000
Dealt at: 5-box
Highest offer: £20,000 (5-box)
Box value: £500
If Paulina’s was mad enough, Gary’s was mad. The Banker hated Gary, which saw an opening offer of 1p! And a third offer of nothing(!), after Gary chatted to his relatives while the Banker was on the phone! However, the Banker and Gary soon made up, and the offers, from that point on were very generous indeed. Gary devised the £20,000 offer himself, and it was a most sensible decision to deal.
Wednesday 9th: Dan
Winnings: £9,022
Dealt at: 5-box
Highest offer: £16,022 (14-box)
Box value: £3,000
After the extraordinary two games prior, this was a bit more of a quiet affair. But Dan’s decision to deal at 5-box was a good call considering. It didn’t quite work out, with £35,000 being missed in the proveout, leading to a 2-box offer of £15,022. (Don’t know what the 22 was about)
Thursday 10th: Abi
Winnings: £15,000
Dealt at: 11-box
Highest offer: £51,000 (2-box)
Box value: £100,000
Oh dear. It looked like Abi’s somewhat cautious decision to deal at 11-box was going to be vindicated, until she hit the 10% best possible final round, leaving her with £20,000 and £100,000. Abi was left very emotional, which was a far cry from the very lively giggly persona she displayed early on.
Friday 11th: Steve
Winnings: £15,000
Dealt at: 2-box
Highest offer: £15,000 (2-box)
Box value: £20,000
Another extraordinary game! Steve had a horrific start to the game, with the entire Power 5 gone by 14-box(!), leading to an offer of £9.99! He subsequently resigned himself to going for it, and, when he hit the 10% perfect final round, leaving him with £10,000 and £20,000, it paid off! And, to be honest, I don’t think he’d care much about the extra £5,000 he could’ve got, especially considering he’d been offered the average!
Sunday 13th: Kate
Winnings: £24,000
Dealt at: 5-box
Highest offer: £38,000 (2-box)
Box value: £100,000
Kate’s no deal to £14,000 at 8-box was one of the bravest for a while. And it paid off nicely too. Shame about the £100,000 though; chalk up another ‘sensible deal unfairly punished in the proveout’.
But, overall, a great week for the show, with two Banker spankings, and a game that felt like one, even though it technically wasn’t. Let’s hope we can keep this good momentum up.
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I saw a few of the games this week (background noise for revision...) and thought Paulina played her game perfectly. A few good rounds, Banker pushes up the offer incredibly high, deal at a strong 5-figure sum, game goes wrong immediately afterwards.
ReplyDeleteGary, the day after, was an odd game and I don't know why it took such a turn either. But he got lucky to have the £20k valuation he made accepted -- I think it was probably £2k too high. You may as well push for all you can get in this game though, and he got it.
Kate's game I also saw, and I thought she was mad to keep pushing on with her 11-/8-box boards of, what was it, £100k and then 10 and 15 and then nothing? Maybe at 11 it was worth risking one more round, I don't remember what the offer was. Still think she was wrong even though the luck she got in the next 6 boxes saw it pay off in spectacular fashion. Irony is that she then, sensibly, bailed out, only to see her box have the top remaining prize after all. I hope she doesn't think of it as 76,000 lost but as a whopping 10k gained.