Been a while since this thread has been bumped up, but today's date, February 10th was an apparent hotbed for particularly cautious deals during the show's round
5 years ago in 2016 - The show was in the penultimate leg of it's 11 year journey, with less than 100 shows left on DoND's clock. The player on this particular day was
ANDREW, who had a reasonably short career on the west wing (about 14 shows was it?), was summoned to the crazy chair (which by this point was probably up for sale in a Salvation army store - naughty Barbara's dream may have come true after all!
). He had a pretty average game in which his offers never truly got off the ground, and at 5-box, he decided to cut and run for £3,888.88. But then the drama came in the proveout when he had an all-blue round after the deal and squandered a £10k/£35k finish, at which point, the banker apparently would've given Andrew an offer of £23,000 (102% of the average!!), and the aforementioned power-5 amount was indeed found in Andrew's box to add insult to injury. Then, in a very peculiar move, Andrew shocked us all by taking the gamble on box 23, and lost the lot!
Meaning Andrew ultimately left with
NOTHING and essentially gave a £35k to the banker FOR FREE!
8 years ago in 2013 -
MICHAEL played the last "civilised" game before the love week specials. The last of the three charismatic Caribbean gentlemen to grace the dream factory in the early 2010s with their character and up-to-scratch taste in hats, Michael did a deal which somewhat mirrored that of his controversial namesake from 07. Dealing at £3,500 on an 8-box with 6 blues, £1k and £100k remaining, the very cautious decision however was proven to be the right one as Michael removed the remain 2 reds in the next 2 boxes! I'm surprised Michael was more well-recieved for his character rather than infamously remembered for his deal, may have been a different story if it happened during the SECOND half of 2013 rather than in February when it did
10 years ago in 2011 -
SOPHIE took a rather cautious deal of £7,000 at 8-box, but the proveouts went DRAMATICALLY wrong. Although the banker initially went easy on Sophie by giving her a band-aid response of a proveout offer of "only" £13,250 at 5-box with the £35k and £250k still there, it was all null and voided by the fact that Sophie ended up with a mighty finish of £35k and £250k, which would've yielded a life-changing £107,000 offer!
15 years ago in 2006 - We were only about 80-odd games into the show's run, and the month of February 2006 saw the first 3 members of the "controversial deals club". This week in 06 started with Glen who dealt at 8-box for an offer of £9,000 despite still having £15k, £35k, £75k and £100k all higher, and ended with
PETER who played on this day and dealt for £3,500 on an 8-box board more or less identical to the aforementioned Michael. However, Peter was not so lucky as he kept the £100k to the end and would've been faced with a final offer of £35,000!