Moxx of Balhoom wrote:
I think we're all pretty much agreed Gaz pushed his luck one round too far there. I don't think there's many people here who wouldn't have taken that 5 box offer (and a few who might have bowed out earlier)
Of course the reason the Banker gave him such generous offers was because he knew this was a player who was prepared to chase the big money and ultimately it was Gaz's ambition - as Courtney called it - that saved him a lot of money.
What i don't understand is why having taken out the £100k he then went on to play box 8. Given the emphasis he placed on the box it seemed foolish not to leave it till the final two. That i think was actually a worse decision than no dealing the £21k
The thing is, other big risk-takers, such as Corinne, seemed to be, from what we can tell, much more prepared to take the risks than he was. Corinne didn't want the money for anything other than the Bentley, whereas in Gaz' case he'd personalised it by saying that he'd give some of the money to his parents, and thus his risk-taking is much more questionable. And when Corinne turned down 31k at 5-box, there was the potential for a huge 2-box offer (which she did indeed get), but not so in Gaz' game. The way I see it, to make a 5-box gamble on a one box game worth it, you should be expecting to get an offer at least 250% of what you turned down before. In this case, such an increase would be impossible unless he kept the 20k along with the 100k, and since that was only a 10% chance, statistically the decision can be considered more foolish than Corinne's were.
Then again, if everybody made decisions relying solely on reading the board, DOND would be much less interesting and exciting. And if he'd won 100k he'd be remembered as being brave rather than foolish by a lot of people...