I think he is talking about Tabitha who played a few days after Tegen.

I remember Tabitha! I didn't especially enjoy her game, but I found it hard to root for her for reasons that are fairly personal to me (and which for most people would have led to more rather than less respect).

I read back the thread for Tabitha's game and there were no particularly negative comments I know her approach was later described as quite aggressive, but overall the forum reaction didn't seem that bad.

I remember Jean from May 2010, who won £50k, leaving a bad taste in the mouth. She had a stable board and generous offers throughout her game, but was very dismissive of them, with comments like "You don't leave halfway through a game!" What was quite telling was that she was only there for 18 shows and Noel had made various references to her complaining about the hotel, so maybe she had a bit of an obnoxious attitude away from the game too, hence the short wing run...

That said, we hadn't seen many gambles pay off during that era so the game itself did at least give us a 'feelgood' result, as did the aforementioned games from Suzanne, Paddy and Nenad, even though they'd have been better with less decisive 5-box offers. I'd certainly take them over games where the player won a decent sum from a perfectly reasonable deal but had to endure a forced downbeat atmosphere because they could have had more (£50k Patrick, £63k Debs, £53k Chris etc).

The big-money Deals with £250k on the table used to make horrible viewing at the end because you'd get Noel suddenly making £50,000 seem like a genuinely modest win even though he'd be bouncing off the walls at the same sum being won the way Jean did it. The last of those games to be ruined that way was Hallowe'en Chris (dealt £40k with the Banker having seen the QM on a 5-box board with three mid-reds and a blue), and the Banker's peek was the driving factor behind that particular guilt trip.

Looking back at Jean's thread, most people enjoyed it, and even the statisticians were like "eh, she was a wacky carefree old lady, hopefully that just offsets the bad luck lately and no more" for the most part!

Thankfully Noel isn't like that anymore, as shown in £72k Tony's, £100k Roy's, £118k Marlene's, £75k Nenad's and £65k Earl's games.

I think you meant David who had that game in Halloween 2009

Didn't anyone else but me think Scott was reckless? One of the most reckless people on DOND. I wonder why?

Quite a few people did, as shown in his commentary. It's just that people respected Scott and his decisions more after he told off several of the wakeyist trolls on the Deal or No Deal Facebook page and Charles on this forum then told everyone that he lost everything he loved and had nothing to lose, hence why he took those big risks in his game. He's still my least favourite Power 5 winner, though, as he just batted away all his offers with the super-greedy intention of winning as much as possible and blowing it all before his ex-wife could get a penny of it.

Weirdly enough, though, £50k Rich is still in my Top 5 favourite games despite him taking risks that were as reckless as Scott's. That's mainly because his game was very tense and hilarious throughout, and also because it got me hooked on the UK version of Deal or No Deal. Admitedly, though, back then I thought that anyone who dealt less than 80% of the average was a total coward and nearly everyone on wings were idiots for always giving such cautious advice.

I never enjoyed Alice's, due to the Banker. I mean offering a BG there is stupid from him. I wouldn't of offered it, I would of offered something like £75,000 there. Alice was a nice girl and she deserved it., just the Banker. IMO.

35k Maurice, just because of his antics against Brad on social media. Not a very nice man whatsoever.

Wow, that's sad that it was him - I had wondered, after reading your earlier comment. He seemed nice when he appeared on the show, but evidently he is not.

He might have been nice back then but just become a bitter old gammon since…

Hmmm, I dunno...I've just watched some of his show, and it seems like Maurice was less a Cheshire cat and more a Cheshire cu---

He tried to call Jamie a loser, for dealing at 5 box! Which is the same time when he dealt in his game! In those days 2005, they would have been more patient of things going on behind the scenes, by making them play early. Unlike CJ a few years later though!

Are we classing £10k plus wins from the Mulhern era a power 5 win?

Having this thread revamped makes me think the unpopular £100k win Dr Hindsight was referring to was actually £75k Julie, seems to fit the description, Tabitha doesn't quite seem to fit and neither does Lauren.