American Coupon Boy wrote:
JamesJMH91 wrote:
Any game in mid-2008 where a player dealt with a strong board and had a big amount on the table
MOST games where the player dealt at 5 box or earlier were depressing to the forum back then, even if they dealt at good offers for the board and the player didn't squander a big red.
I remember £11k Gary and £10k Slim were both given the "ho hum" treatment even though they both dealt at VERY generous offers (both of which I unquestionably would've taken), there was some comedy in both games, both of them didn't miss out on much and both ended up selling a blue. The main contributor to this gloomy attitude was the run of poor games in general throughout mid-2008.
I think the late 2007-mid 2008 era was the worst period for this forum. The show hit a very noticeable rough patch during this period with an abundance of cautious deals, trainwrecks, sob-stories and players becoming more cautious, even negative at times and it just caused the forum to go into a depressed mode really, made worse by the now-banned 'wakey clones' on here who got uptight whenever someone dealt too early
Also, the show hit a bit of a bumpy patch in March/Early April 2007 when people on here were just getting sick of blue chants, Noel guilt-tripping players who dealt too early, there not being enough characters on the show, inflated, sometimes above-the-mean proveout offers to add to Noel's aggressiveness, and a run of bad games from Betty-Tanweer, where Joe was the only player to have an OPW, and the two highest wins from that run (Steven and Kelsie) were the most slated games (Also, i couldn't believe how up in arms people were getting over which genders stood in what positions, especially as that era saw Rich become the first man to stand in E11!)