Once upon a time, a deal or no deal playing strategy was created called wakeyism. The exact creator of the term is unknown to me but the fundamental basis of the phrase is clear. If you went to the end, you were a wakeyist, playing to wakeyism.
This thread is aimed at clearing up the thought process that went into so called wakeyism, and if that matches to the predicted definition that other members suggested.
(Heck i'm not even 100% what was going through my mind 13 years ago)I make this thread for the members that still browse that are aware of the term and if any other members from the days gone by that still pop on the forum (KP, daniel4389, James1978, davey, aaron brock, daniel123, h2005, among others) assuming of course that anyone actually cares. It's a bit of a moot point given that dispose the fact no one posts on here anymore, the show has also come to an end.
Browsing many of the threads back in 2006 onwards, particularily in 2007
post wakey1512 banning - Wakeyism as a process, seems to be defined as the act of going to the end of the game, taking ones box, ignoring many of the offers presented, irrespective of their generosity and irrespective of the risks proceeding to the next round. The origins of wakeyism are always presumed to be outright offer refusal. But remember this -
wakey1512 was a keyboard warrior and serial watcher of the programme!To fully understand wakeyism its important to seperate the reasons for 'my personal' wakeyism. The likely reason is because at my then young age I never fully appreciated the value of money, a generous 5 box offer that is overshadowed by larger values remaining in play clouded the value being offered because I didn't know the value of lower values that are still lifechanging. That is true to some degree but i feel my true wakeyism was down to the simple need for entertaining television. Many members on here could watch a player accept £22,000 regardless of the deal strength
purely because it made a difference to that player and that they were happy and call it entertaining television. Unfortunately that never entertained me and would somewhat bore me
(that says a lot about me as a person i think ). I found more entertainment from watching someone go to the end in a gripping 1p/£250,000 final. That is exciting television by anyones standards but unfortunately this became a bad habit of mine - the need to watch other people gambling.
Going back to the origins its possible sometime in 2006 I watched a game involving a gamble and it paying off, resulting in a large amount won from the box and the consequential elated mood and general good feeling post game. It may have been £100,000 Gaz but i'm not 100% sure. This set the foundations for what I thought was entertaining. I certainly didn't find 3rd offer deals entertaining. And then there came entertainment from watching someone hit all the blues after a 3rd offer deal
another key factor to understanding some of the (uncalled for) critique. (Although some contestants from 2007/2008 would probably still get my blood boiling if I watched back now
we all know which ones )
This moulded the wakeyism model. No longer could I be entertained watching someone deal for £12,000 at the 4th offer when there are still most of the top 5 in play,
despite £12,000 being an incredibly large amount of money. I was hoping so much that each time I tuned into deal or no deal that it would be someone going to the end and winning a high value from their box (understandably, the format would dry up incredibly quick if everyone did this..) however you can understand a 14/15 year old will definitely not have seen it this way at the time. (No excuses for basicasic, he was in his 40s
)
The same theory could be said for wilsonism and basicasicism, the latter certainly so because i would expect a 40 year old man has a full understanding of the value of money. It's all a matter of entertainment. Put me or the other members in the chair even 13 years ago I think things would have played out differently to our forum persona.
Make of this what you will, but know that wakeyism certainly isn't the reckless motion of going to the end regardless as a tactic. Wakeyism is simply the desires of a 14/15 year old wanting to be entertained watching the telly irrespective of the contestants sentiments and own personal targets. Looking back it is all rather embarrasing, id be grateful for £500 nowadays
Thanks for reading