The Banker says he dangled the notion of an all-blue round in front of Craig, but they nearly had an all-red round!

Banker's offer:

£7,500

Jane says that she would like Craig to deal now.

Craig says

DEAL

Noel calls another break before the proveout rounds...

I can see why he dealt but I feel it's going to be a big mistake.

We're back

Round 5 - Proveout round

22 - £250,000 Clare

19 - £500 Daphne

20 - 10p Andria

Banker time

Round 6 - Proveout round

12 - £50 Nicola

5 - £1 David

16 - £5 Daniela

Banker time with £10 and £10,000 remaining

Noel opens Craig's box 21 and reveals £10

Box 8 with Phil contains the £10,000

Craig and Jane says that they will be treating their boys to a holiday.

A huge relief that the crash was avoided.

Wonder how close we really were there to a third-offer OPW (not that there wouldn't have been a hypothetical lie of £11k+ at 8-box "because the £250k is still on the board" had that £10k been Dealt).

A cautious deal, but what a releif that worked out for him. Think most of us would have crashed there.

So the good fortune of deaf players is maintained... but only just.

As this was just a TPW and Craig won £4k less than Rachael, one can't say that this sticky period is over just yet...




Seconded.

I'm very dissapointed in Craig, by dealing the 4th offer and not the 3rd he effectively squandered £10k and went away with a relatively paltry £7,500. I refuse therefore to recognise that as a good deal

On the other hand he did at least get out of the game before it went totally t*ts up.

Not a criticism but i did have trouble understanding what Craig was saying at times, I kind of wish i'd been watching live just so i could have put the subtitles up, think it would have helped me get a better understanding of him as a player

Tough game to call. As Noel said, tough to deal at 8-box but hitting the QM in the first box was perfection.

Nice to have a relatively gimmick-free game for a change after the manicness of the last few days.

At least we didn't get another £11,500 win otherwise they'd probably call that the new Governor or something.

I would have dealt £3000 at 2-box. Can see why Craig dealt when he did but it's never nice when you deal one round too late.

Tricky one today. Delighted for Craig & Jane that they didn't crash, as I suspect I might have done. Alternatively I was tempted by the 10k the previous round, but I doubt I'd have gone with it. I'm looking forwarding to seeing Deal Eye's judgement on the offers, as they all seemed reasonably generous to me.

Those £10k and £7.5k offers were both less than 90% of the benchmark... it would have taken £750 at 5-box.