Ady says he would've swapped for Box 18.

Noel hypo-swaps Ady's Box 8 for Margaret's Box 18.

Noel reveals £1,000 in Ady's new Box 18.

Of course we can. Plenty of us on here analyse the game mathematically or in relation to what we would do. There is nothing wrong with that. I can only assume you are arguing for the sake of it.

PHEW... the swapped worked..

Ady's original Box 8, now with Margaret, contains the £250,000.

You'd have given it away, says Noel.

Ady says he'd have dealt at £26,000 had he gone on; he says he doesn't want to go home now!

It is not a real evaluation if you just pick and choose what to base it on, for it to be a true evaluation you must base it on what the banker bases the offers on.

Interestingly, £71k is exactly the same offer Micole had on that board.

There is no need for phew, you cannot focus on what is in the box because the player did not know what was in their box at the time of the deal, and declining the final offer would be reckless. You can focus on the fact that they were cautious and should have gone further into the game but I suggest that you respect their decision and that they go away with £17K.

Switched off when he said he'd hypo-swap. I am either indifferent to or applaud pretty much anything on the show, but hypo-swaps still disgust me. Even it it goes in the right way like today, it's just, arrgh, really annoying !

Of all the players who have been cautious in the past, he's up there at the top (only because of how much he found the second round offer so hard with just one red gone).

He most likely would have dealt at two box anyhow, unless he had a "Scott" feeling.

He said he would have dealt at £26,000... and the number of players who have had a 'Scott' feeling... you can literally count them on one hand.

Here you go, now Charles dosen't need to reply to this one ! Go home now kids !

Well, we have game of the month.

Now I think there should be a Lame game of the month! This would be right up there. A truly ridiculous and ultimate chicken out third round deal. Wonder what spiel he will say in the post game vid.

Think most of us wanted the swap to backfire!

Then why are you here?

Honestly don't know. I assume it's just to wind everyone up.

This game has taken the value of boxes brought to the table past the £50 million mark (I make it £50,085,112.95). As the players have won just under £31 million, maybe Mark has a point in calling some of them (well, most of them in fact) cautious!

Any particular reason why?

I always see the hypo-swap as saying "The banker agreed to buy this box in the table, but the swap means that he's now buying this NEW box instead" I mean, it should really be offered every time a contestant deals, but otherwise I have no problem with it.

At any rate, a cautious decision, but there have been far worse in the show's history. 17k is still a solid result.

Just an irrational hatred. It screws up the stats more than anything.

Better to have a board that's too strong for you than too weak. I think that could easily have been a second offer deal, again, if the lack of precedent hadn't been bought up. Well played Banker, you have to say, took his chance that Ady would be more amenable to a statistically inadequate 11-box offer and so he was.

Second time this summer the £250k has been sold at 11-box after almost seven years where it never was. Funny coincidence there! And it's nice to see a hyposwap when £250k is on the table - it seems to be much more common to swap it onto the table post-Deal than vice versa, so my cynical side is placated for tonight.

Did anticipate a third-offer stick and deal to be honest...but I'd have no-dealt anyway.

Same here. I was very much expecting it to happen.

So a player who would have dealt at 8-box and therefore probably 5-box and 2-box too, gets a hypo-swap. Completely pointless doing it then - the only positive is that it removes the negative spin that Noel would have given it in that he became only the 2nd person to sell the QM at the 3rd offer.

Yeah. If they'd been doing it from the beginning, and offered it all the time, just as they do with live-play swaps, then I imagine the hypo-swap wouldn't be nearly as reviled as it is now. Funnily enough, I can still remember the first ever hypo-swap - it was Candice way back in March 2006, and it came about due to a request on her part.

I also recall KP in particular saying that it allowed Noel to spin a guilt-trip regardless of what was in the box, which was especially noticeable in Halloween 2009 when someone dealt for 40k when the Banker said 250k was in their box, and even when they hypo-swapped it away Noel still went on about how it was on the table the whole time!