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Round 5

10 - Casey - £100,000

17 - Mike - £3,000

6 - Zoe - £10,000

Banker time

The banker says that was cruel luck and it was hilarious.

Banker's offer:

£3,000

David says Jim is normally very positive, and tells him to be positive now.

Jim says

NO DEAL

Round 6

Jim decides to use the love necklace with Gabbie and box 7 now. Gabbie guesses she has £250 in her box.

7 - Gabbie - £15,000

Gabbie doesn't win the holiday. Jim gets an offer now.

Banker time

Jim says he'd be annoyed if he dealt and found £20k in his box. Jim asks for a sweep, and none of them think he should deal now.

Jim says

DEAL

Round 6 - continued - proveout

Jim says leaving with £1,000 is far preferable to leaving with 1p.

22 - Carlos - £20,000

20 - Mathew - £1,000

Banker time with 1p and £250 remaining...

Noel says Jim did the right thing at the right time.

Banker's offer would've been:

£19.99

Noel opens Jim's box 8 and reveals £250

Box 15 with Lynn contains the 1p

Jim says he doesn't have any regrets.

Would have been a better result if he had played yesterday where a possible £50,000 would have been up for grabs, though he probably would have blown the chances of getting it.

A cautious deal most definitely. But taking a consolation sum when it seems your game is going nowhere is understandable. Good thing it turned out to be the correct choice.

Total capitulation dealing at 19% of the average, having earlier turned down 46%. Possibly the worst deal ever in that regard, though indeed it's understandable given his shell-shocked demeanour.

I wonder what the offer at 7-box could've been had he picked Gabbie then.

That, in a way was spectacularly clever!

Why didn't he Deal £13k or £3k if he wasn't prepared to go home with a blue?

BTW if you want a grand from a gameshow, go play Pointless. Just don't play something where you can win a lot more.

£11,750 was won on Pointless on Monday. Current jackpot is £3k now.

Did any one else notice that the number 8 on Jim's box was upsidown?

I thought the 8 looked weird.

*sighs loudly*

This really is turning out to be one of the Banker's best weeks in ages, isn't it?

It's certainly one he'll remember for a very, very long time - not only is it based around his favourite decade, but it's featured a squandered £100k win, a squandered £250k win, a fortunate narrow TPW, another squandered £100k win and now a painfully defeatist deal and massive TBW.

And out of a possible £479k, the players have won just less than an eighth of that amount - £58.3k...

And it was ironic that Jim, unlike the previous four players, played the necklace at 5-box - but at the same time was in the process of wiping out the remaining reds.

I guess 5-box isn't always the best time to play the necklace, then...

But there's no doubt about this: the forecast for the final special on Sunday is not good.




Sorry James1978, KP, and everyone else... but I'd be strongly tempted to agree with Mark on this occasion.

Especially after Darrel's game last year; that was painful to watch.

But come on, lets be optimistic!