For someone sensible to go all the way they need to have the board to go all the way, and it was not there today. The board meant she should have gone another round but after that it would be quite a reckless gamble to decline the offer made at two-box.

I don't know which was worse, this Sara's game or her namesake from the early days

That's a good point, but, with all due respect, it still doesn't hide the fact that, statistically, it wasn't a very good offer, even if if it was enough to get her to deal. (It was over £10,000 below the Fair Deal).

I suppose the reason we are calling it a bad offer is because we think of the offer in relation to the stats of the board, rather than in relation to the player. Most of us, if we ever play the game, wouldn't have got her offers, as the Banker would like know they would be way too low for us to even consider dealing.

And yet when people DO go for it and the boxes don't work in their favour you call them stupid reckless idiots joining the pathetic club or whatever, so in other words make your bloody mind up!!!

You can't have one without the other.

Rant over.

well said James. its weird how poeople never post rants before the proveout, only when they know the result., something the players dont have the luxury of!

The 8 box and 5 box offers were statistically poor, especially the 8 box one, would have needed to be 30k to make me think about it, great Banker play I must say, the minute she started talking about not having much money and her upbringing the Banker no doubt thought "I can get her cheap", she did herself no favours there, she was very down to earth, really liked her, especially the banter at the start, great TV, if you cant no deal that 5 box when CAN you no deal though? I reckon there's no more than one other person on the wings that would have dealt that board, guaranteed 3 grand, very likely to go home with 5 figures, not good, can excuse the 2 box deal I think, shame such a great board didnt happen for a more realistic rather than ultra cautious player! I'm sure she'll enjoy the money still but an extremely rare all red 5 box has gone begging there!

This is exactly why you should NEVER mention your financial problems on this show. The Banker will you use that to get you CHEAP!

Shame no family / friend was in the audience... as they may have told her to go on at five box.

Sara said that she didn't want anyone in the audience because they might influence her. They probably would've told her to deal at £24k.

Sort of a weird thing to say, but it's good to see that the £250k is being sold from genuinely poor Deals like this one and Katie's. It's painful when someone takes a very good offer to find the jackpot on the table - it makes the Deal look bad even if it isn't. When it actually is a bad Deal, that concern doesn't apply.

I don't know what's more offputting, the reaction to this game or the reaction to Mariyams.

The bankers offer wasn't poor, because he doesn't make offers based purely on statistics. Stats mean nothing to him when he plays a psychologically blinder like that. He knew Sara was hesitant and cautious, and the offer reflected that. In that sense, it was actually a bloody brilliant offer.

Of course, I'm disappointed that she didn't go on, and it's not what I would have done. But if she's severely upset, she'll be wiping her tears on banknotes considering she just won a substantial amount of money.

Hard luck, but congratulations all the same to her.

1. I can say what I want, to an extent. You just have too short of a fuse. Chill out, dude. It's just an opinion.

2. Everyone's getting free drinks courtesy of me when the next jackpot winner is crowned. I would not complain about that, if I were you.

Well I'm sorry but I get extremely annoyed when contestants get abused or called stupid or whatever just becuase they have made the wrong decision. How would you like it if you were in their shoes? It's not big and it's not clever, and it's so easy to judge from behind a computer screen.

If you want someone to go for it and win the jackpot then great, that's perfectly understandable, but then don't diss the people who DO go for it and it doesn't come off (such as Mariyam) - becuase then it comes over as being extremely hypocritical.

who are you, the Anti-Mark?

isn't being a money chaser the exact point of the game? Why go on there if you don't want to "Chase the Money"?

Chasing the money is the game so stop being such an anti-Mark

indeed but then she goes and follows the advice of the wingers

Only just watched the game as have been in holiday, checked the board and when I saw 100+ posts I wrongly assumed this was number 5!

Bugger

Yes, you could call me the anti-Mark, but not quite true. Mark is always encouraging people to go on no matter what the state of the board is but I encourage sensible decisions based on the board.

Money chasing is not the exact point of the game, the point of the game is making sensible decisions to try and take the maximum out of the game. That means you should probably go on if the odds are in your favour, and stop if the odds are against you.

Mariyam recklessly chased the £250K, and even when she found it, she then went chasing the £50K as she did not have the sense to stop at £19K and avoid going away with a penny.

Would you still be calling her a 'reckless chaser' if she'd won the £250,000? (Or the £50,000, for that matter)

I agree that her final no deal was pretty poor statistically, but, on the other hand, it would be quite hard to deal when an amount close to the peak (or more than it) is still available.

Yes, I would still be calling her a reckless money chaser unless she had the board to justify her decisions which she did not have. If she won £50K on her board it would be by pure luck and not because she made a good decision.

It was as if she could not accept that the round did not go her way, and then she desperately tried to get back to the peak of game by chasing the £50K, instead of just considering the offer in relation to the board.