Ironic that it was a Fireman, who by their nature show bravery in their job, who had the bravery that Noel craves. I didn't take him for an OHO either, I think he may have got the Red Mist at the end.

A player is brave and then crashes... Mind you, we've only had a handful of games recently when that attitude would have paid off. Drought of big money at the table continuing there.

For all that Noel goes on about firefighters taking lots of money from the banker, I'm sure the actual number of firefighters getting big wins isn't actually all that high. There was a long run of them on the wings a few years back and I'm pretty sure most won blues or 4-figure sums!

For Tel, he probably got a bit too caught up in the heat of the moment

At least he does have a holiday from the Dealfest specials!

It's a shame Noel didn't remind him about that actually, that may have cheered him up a bit! Mind you, maybe that contributed to his 5-box decision - he already knew he wasn't going home with peanuts...

Ah, that's a good point.

Mind you, already having £1,000 from a previous show didn't stop Paulina dealing the third offer.

He mentioned the holiday at the start but never said about it again at the end. Or that may have been taken out in editing if Noel did say anything about it.

Think we can pretty much discredit any FMQM rumours that relate to anyone in this 22 after that one, barring a massive deus ex machina a là Alice's undeal (plausible, given the show's desperate ratings difficulties already being apparent when these were filmed).

The previous few weeks' contestants will be pointing to that and going "see?".

All you people criticizing cautious gameplay now have two days of players playing to the end. The result? Two blue wins. I don't see how these two games are at all better than any of the deals of the past couple months.

Dealing 79% the benchmark and 86% the fair deal is not stupid. It also would have been a banker spanking.

100% agree with you.

A series of calculated no deals that didn't deserve to hit the 10% nightmare round at the end. Even keeping one of the medium reds with a blue would have been a nice consolation for taking the calculated gamble but it wasn't to be.

Much as I suspect Tel got a does of the red fever there, that was still cruel bad luck in the final round. If he could have kept just one red in play he would have probably got a respectable bailout offer, but it was not to be. It's all very well being brave but it doesn't guuarantee big money