I put "In my books" meaning that, according to myself, selling a box for more than it was worth is a banker beating. You can disagree if you like, but my opinion is my opinion, and I won't be changing it.

Maybe basicasic has his own opinion too.

In my mind You only beat the banker if you deal at your peak offer of the whole game and then have less in your box too.
Or of course you open your box and its the biggest amount in the game to win and higher than any offers you had in previous rounds.

I guess everyone has a different view. All of us will be on a scale between optimistic and pessimistic views. I think that's as clear as we can make it!

Good game, a little dry perhaps but Shane came accross well and seems like a decent enough bloke.

The first round was very interesting with all 5 boxes falling within one or other of the power fives, I can't recall ever seeing an opening combination like that before, and thankfully it went in his favour (3-2 as Laura would have said)

Had a feeling when he spoke so passionately about his love of Man U that a dream offer of some sorts would be on the cards so no surprises there (and surely DO's always come at 11 box, don't they?)

What else? Well I don't really like to criticise any player for dealing because you don;t know their personal circumstances and how much the money means to them, I can certainly understand why a man with a young family would have felt the need to deal when he did, especially with the board stacked 3-2 against him
However I do think the banker could have offered at least a little more given the board he had, I'm sure that banter with the audience in the previous round influenced him to make a £15k offer rather than a little more (I'd have expected £18- 20)

Just a shame really he couldn't have found the top money in that final round and administered a good old fashioned Banker Spanking

I completely agree with you basic everyone just cops out at 15K nowadays regardless of offer generosity and there is no appitite for the huge money, even if he had been left with blue vs 15K he could have bailed out for a few grand at the end.

What to do about targetism.

This deal was even worse than yesterday's - even Sylvia had 4 blues there.

Mid 20s would have been a decent offer on that board.

Interesting game. Glad the "dream" holiday was offered at the 3rd offer because it really wasn't worth more than a couple of thousand at the most.

Wonder why if as Noel said, he muttered about what the 2 box offer would have been at 2-box if he kept the £250k in play, why he didn't ask out loud. The banker may not have told him but I'd always ask anyway.

But he most probably would of still dealt anyway even if he did know what the 2-box offer would of been. So it most probably wouldn't of mattered anyway.

Though it was bound to be a £50,000+ offer anyway - not quite sure if I believe it would of been £20,000 higher than Sylvia's proveout offer yesterday mind.

You can bet your bottom dollar that when someone does finally go for it on a board like that, they'll end up winning two-thirds of cr*p all.

Why couldn't a game like this have happened to Allan for instance? Or Melissa? That's what really getting at me at the moment!

There are actually some brave contestants out there, the luck is always with the wrong contestants!

Isn't that the thing about luck though, it's random and no-one knows until they get out there which way their boxes are going to fall

What i don,t understand is why Sylvia was only offered 50k and she had more or less the same board as Shane and he was offered 70k is it all too much for the bankers brain to cope with .

Very simple, Pat - they wanted a bigger guilt trip this time.

what was wrong with 70K - I thought it was about right and it was an even slightly weaker deal than Sylvia given she had no fallback.

I haven't seen any rants from Noel either even after Sylvia's deal which is especially strange given this cautious period we're now in and in the context of what he used to be like.

I hope what I'm about to write makes sense. I think that it's the banker's job to "buy" the player's box for as little as possible. Sylvia maybe came across as more cautious than Shane both in the wings and in her game, so the banker may have thought that he'd have to offer Shane more money to get him to deal. I think a fair offer on a blue/£250k board is somewhere between £50k and £70k.



All down to editing, I presume.