ROUND 5

Box 12 - Bill - 10p
Box 1 - Connie - 1p
Box 17 - Callum - £100,000

Banker time

£18,000 is a DEAL for me on that board!

BANKER'S OFFER

£18,000

Kerry says NO DEAL

Looks like it's time for some extra offers...

yep

CLOSING ROUND

Box 3 - Lyn - £1
Box 7 - Angie - £50

Banker calls and for Kerry to stop now he offers

BANKER'S OFFER

£40,000

£40,000?!

To £40,000 Kerry says

DEAL

PROVEOUT (Closing round cont.)

Box 18 - David - £15,000

Banker time with 50p and £250,000 left in the game

DAMN

Jackpot winner denied

Just one more brave no deal...

Would she have gone for it? Doubt it.

If the Banker didn't make that extra offer, maybe.

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£65,000

Hypothetical swap is not taken

Box 5 - £250,000
Box 20 - Irene - 50p

Box 23 time

Bad answer for box 23

Another player missed out on half a million...which wouldn't have happened

Box 23 - NO DEAL

Contents - DOUBLE

Is that the Banker's biggest ever win as he saved himself £460000 but £40000 can't be ignored

Nope. He saved £480,000 in March 2015 Sam's game if you count hypo-swaps and £472,000 in February 2014 Rich's game if your a purist.

90% of players would've dealt at 11, 8 or 5 box and would've (somewhat unjustly) earned the title of Deal's Biggest Loser in monetary terms. At least Kerry avoided that.

5 box and 3 box were both tricky decisions. At 3 box, you were probably looking at potential offers of £6,000, £65,000 and £100,000 and while it's tempting to try for a powerful all-red finish, the middle option isn't a huge amount more utility-wise and to crash from £40,000 to mid four figures would be quite devastating for most people, so I certainly don't blame Kerry for dealing when she did.

Fixed!

Reasonable deal, horribly unlucky proveout. Hopefully she won't have too many regrets.

She will.

Not as many regrets as if she'd had the button and bailed out by playing it earlier!

Kerry's game reminded me a bit of another Northern Irish lady, Melissa, who played a similarly determined game back in December. But while Melissa was younger and didn't appear to have many financial commitments, Kerry definitely did, which made her approach to the game a little uncomfortable at times. Still, at least she went away with a life-enhancing sum, something that probably wouldn't have happened with that approach on a different day.