HO HUM... yet again... ANOTHER third round deal and ANOTHER cautious player / deal....

OH WHEN OH WHEN will the cautious players come to a STOP? FULL STOP.

Questionable, perhaps, but it's not even close to being the worst deal of the week. And if you're going to be that defensive then at least do it at 11-box rather than take a worse offer a round later.

A technical draw is very possible given what she dealt for (£26k peak offer would make that happen).

This series is becoming a joke now. There is too much messing about and she CONSTANTLY asked people what she should do. Can't she play her OWN GAME?!

3 of the Power 5 left, all I can is... Mark get ready with your 'Oh dears' (Not assuming anything of course!).

We're back

Round 4 - proveout

Noel says it's normally difficult to make 3rd offer deals work, but people have made it work.

9 - Reg - £75,000

3 - Phyl - £15,000

1 - Maria - £100

Banker time

Good to see some proveout honesty there. I wouldn't want to take that offer, but I'd be tempted...

Round 5 - proveout

21 - Becky - £250,000

10 - Kelly - 1p

16 - Kirsty - £1,000

Banker time

This would be the first 11-box OPW in the history of the game that I haven't cheered.

Round 6 - proveout

6 - Ruthie - 10p

20 - Bob - £250

12 - Aideen - £35,000

Banker time with 50p and £3,000 remaining...

Mark had better leave the country for the next week after a decision like that went the way it did.

Noel opens Joan's box 7 and reveals £3,000

She should count herself VERY VERY VERY lucky that the third offer deal worked for her.

Hopefully on Sunday, the first game of the month we will see most of the players say NO deal 6 times... and all the cautious players will come to a stop. FULL STOP.

Box 17 with Bastien contains the 50p

Noel says that victory really snuck up on us.

Ha ha, brilliant!

A much needed OPW, and to get one from the third offer makes it even better in my opinion!

Hate to say this, Jack... but from catching quite a bit of the game, being unable to resist glancing at the previous comments on this thread as a result, and also looking at the DS forum, I get the impression that not very many people will agree with you here...

Poor decision to deal in terms of gameplay at that stage of the game.

She obviously let other factors come into her head (she obviously never came here to 'play the game') and was incredibly lucky with the proveout that the boxes fell her way.

Probably one of the most undeserved spankings in my mind.

I'm sure her husband was furious at her when she dealt the third offer as he wanted her to go on, then once the £250,000 went, he probably changed his mood.