beaker wrote:
h2005 wrote:
As for the gameplay of Steven's - I'd have been very tempted to deal at the £27,500 third offer myself, because as I said earlier, there was a chance he could knock out the top 3 in the next round, and his later offers would've been lower than £27,500.
The £55,000 proveout offer was large, but the £66,000 was ridiculous - it was an above mean offer and is very unlikely to have been as large as that - I'd have said around £45k for both offers at most if Steven had still been playing.
I really, really liked Steven as he seemed such a nice, genuine bloke - and was clearly loved by the other contestants and he seemed to care for them in return.
It was a shame that you dealt too early, Steven - but you did the right deal at the right time for you - well done for having the courage to go against the grain and deal when you did, for a huge sum of money - £27,500 - enjoy the money!
Personally I felt he bottled it.
Rather silly thing to say that he could have taken the top three boxes in the next round when he could just as easily have taken out the lowest three amounts on the board.Thats what happens in a game of chance, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't
I could also say it's rather silly to say that he could take the three lowest amounts out in the next round when he could just as easily have taken the three highest amounts out!!!
As far as I'm concerned, the decision making on DOND is largely to do with what could happen in the next round, and how that could affect the offer - had he hit some big numbers, the offer would've gone down and he may well have dealt at a lower sum.
Rather than "bottling it" as you seem to describe it, I think he was being cautious, and there's nothing wrong with that! He said he had a bad feeling about the next round and he followed his gut instincts - seems fine to me.