** RING **

The Banker thinks his cash boost on the card may have been a mistake...

BANKER'S OFFER

£38,888

I make that about two-thirds of the average. Tough to turn that down at these stakes, but three-box game and two to open makes it mighty tempting to anyway, certainly with a four-figure lock-in.

Risking just over £40k here though, and the 1p definitely has psychological power. I think the Banker might be less generous at 4-box if the 1p is there, I think he's gone a bit defensive here because he's on tilt a bit from the mistake he made with the card offer, and you have to take advantage of the openings you can get when your opponent is on tilt. I think this offer is that opening. DEAL.

Proveout is 27, 25, 23, 21, 19, 15, 11, 13, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1.

It's a DEAL! As it is, you're on a wonderfully bizarre win of £44,943.16 But let's play it through, let's see what happens playing onward!


27 - +£5,000 would actually have been good news at this stage!

25 - £500 certainly would have been!

23 - ADD HALF would have taken us to this six-box on the cards...

DOUBLE
+£35,000
+£15,000
-£2,500
-£15,000
HALF
QUARTER

With that amount of money, the offer would have been +£5,000 here!

Next...

21 - QUARTER was the perfect one to get rid of there....

19 - 1p! That was perfect for the cash!!

£10,000
£50,000
£75,000
£250,000

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£77,777

So this isn't going well, but let's try turn that around

Well I dealt based on the assumption the Banker wouldn't be generous at 4-box if there was any danger. Turns out I hit the 1-in-15 chance of there not being any.

15 - DOUBLE would've had a much bigger impact with the huge game going on on the left!

+£35,000 / +£15,000 / -£2,500 / -£15,000 for a straight up offer of +£6,300...

11 - +£15,000 would now have pushed you to the brink of a guaranteed negative card...

13 - -£15,000... and it'd have balanced out!

+£35,000 / -£2,500 would've given you a final offer of +£125² = +£15,625

9 - £75,000 keeps us teetering on the edge on the cash...

7 - -£2,500! You'd now have had a massive +£35,000 card in your hand!

5 - £50,000 leaves a big £10,000 vs £250,000 finish...

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£88,888

3 - £10,000!! Well how about that?! This bizarre game would have ended up with a £285k win! £250,000 was in Box 1 and +£35,000 over in Box 17. Surely you can't be too upset with just shy of £45k though!

So that was a thing that happened... And maybe it'll happen again, potentially with changes? We'll see!