A better advert for targetism could not have been written. I'm sure we'll get some eleven-box Deals from this 22.

I witnessed the final two without knowing the board earlier. I was surprised he rejected £20,000 on the basis nearly all the players in recent weeks didn't have in play offers near £20,000. Perhaps he was another who was chasing the big money glory and kept the target as a bluff, since there were stability on the red side?

Nice to see you back MisterAl. I bet you reckon the forum has improved in recent weeks.

Very interesting game today, with all the promises of the offers varying so much depending on whether Mark took out low blues or high blues. To crash like that was quite something, and whilst the top 3 were looking rather exposed, I never thought he'd wipe all 3 of them out in consecutive boxes, and in order too.

Towards the end, I was sort of hoping he'd end up with a 1p vs 10p final 2 as it'd be more memorable than a deal on a 1p / 10p vs £15k finish. Although whatever happened, I don't think I'll forget this game for a long time! The final 2 and the deal at 4p (after the increase from 2p ) just made it all the more memorable.

Well done to Mark for taking it so well, especially as he was probably a £20k targetist as others have said. Had Meena not dealt at the 3rd offer yesterday, and had Noel and the banker not encouraged him to play on with talk of what the offers could be, I think he'd have been gone at 11-box for £20k. You can almost guarantee that had he gone at that point, the proveout offer at 8-box probably would've been about £30k - £35k!

I think the lure of the £40k/£55k/£60k promised offers (conditional on an all-blue round) that persuaded him on. It would have persuaded me on too, I'm sure. They didn't want two third offer deals on the trot now, did they...



Thanks! I've only just noticed the improvements that have been made here of late.

So here come another disaster final 2. I can't believe I've missed this game.
Still, wakeyism isn't the best thing.

This one should go to the incinerator bin, Mad Mark

Ironic that his namesake gets it of all people???

How right you're.
Seriously, judging by the amount of posts on this thread, I thought it will be another one of those ridiculous deals, but what do I find? Another 1p and 10p final 2.
(A 1:462 change?)

Nearly - 1 in 231.

And it's still got a 1 in 231 chance of coming up tomorrow... dare I say it.

Oh yes, I forgot to multiply it by 2 at the end

Ouch!! Has any show seen the 4 biggest amounts going in succession? I doubt it. I thought the 8 box offer might have been a bit higher to tempt Mark out of the chair. He was a great character and he took it well. I hope he and his partner prosper in the future.

Like Travis I accidentally caught the end of the 4.15pm showing when I didn't want to. I was wondering how he could have been 1 box away from a £40k offer and imagined a £250k/10p/1p final 3. What actually happened was far more cruel that I could have imagined.

Jay on the 12th last month took all the Power Five out in consecutive boxes...

That three-box configuration would be amazing, whether in active play or (for different reasons) proveout...

Well I think Mark deserved a medal for taking a crash that spectacular so well. I feel sick after that, I don't think he made a single bad decision either. They're my least favourite games - a blue win when there's a strong possibility of a big win right up until the very late stages AND it wouldn;t have taken a big gambler for the crash to have happened either, through the offers being so poor for the board.

And did anyone think the banker laughing down the phone was just totally uncalled for and unnecessiarily rubbing his nose in it? I could understand that in (say) Matty's game where he asked for it in a way but Mark was a really nice genuine guy, and he did nothing to provokt the banker into anything either. and he took it a heck of a lot better than i would.

And the possible next offer scenario is WAY overused too - please stop it NOW!

I just feel it's going to be impossible for anyone to win anything really big ever again unless it's by accident.

aT Least positvely speakin he had huge huge offers, abot time we had some biggy offers..20k at 8 box was a little harsh tho then that crash...omg! arr...

James I agree with you about the 'next offer if' scenario, they've been used far too much recently.
What a complete contrast to meena's game eh, that was so unfair. Don't think anyone thought he would take all three big ones out. He couldn't have dealt at £20,000, not at that point, with those numbers still in play. What a shame and he was a really nice lad too.

Something I noticed ( ) is that when the "squashdown" of the values on the board occurred at 6-box, there was an extra little sound effect... don't think it's been used before but it sounded as though someone had dropped something (which I thought it was at first).

It sounded like a softer version of the £250,000 "explosion"