YAY What a game!

Round 6 Stats
Boxes left: 2
Mean: £0.75
Offer: £.71
Offer (%): 94.67%
Fair Deal: £0.73
Volatility: 2.00
Redometer: -17 (↓0)

Haha, well done Penny Excellently played!!

I've been disappointed each of the past few days when a player deals for what appears to be a low offer on a strong board: and each time the proveout takes out all the big reds.... ah, what do I know?

Well done Penny on £22,500.

I would have gone on and probably won 71p!

She was brave to turn down her target, and I'm happy she dealt at the right time. It was one of those boards that could have gone either way - fortunately on this occasion, it went the right way after the deal. Not sure what I would have done - I was expecting a bit more than £22.5k, maybe nearer £25k. Difficult...

Well done, anyway - she got more than her target, got the most out of the game, and beat the Banker. Can't ask for much more than that.

Oh my days, that was absolutely amazing - a definite candidate for best proveout offer in my book! I love Penny, so imaging how distraught she would have been (not to mention me watching), made that game all the better in my view! It was of Melanie proportions, thats how great it was!

Games like that are just as good as 6 figure wins to me - knowing that the player would have gone with absolutely NOTHING if they'd played on, unlike Joe, even though he got a great OPW, he'd have still won something good if he'd gone to the end, but I would have won 71p there, and I can't imagine anyone no-dealing the £22,500 and dealing the £5k either!

And Penny was so lovely as well!! A game like that couldn't happened to a nicer young lady!

Well done Penny - you're a star!

(Off to watch the repeat now, it was THAT good!)

Well played great to see another game with a fab win for the player

This is more like it, players are actually having some luck! First Joe's game yesterday and now this!

Like Joe an awesome game for an awesome contestant, I really hope the rest of the month is the same. Really well done on that £22,500, Penny, definitely very chunky money!

Once again discretion proves the better part of valour in spectacular style. This is the age of safety-first producing first-class results and it's happened again! I'd like a big finish soon, sure, but this has been an interesting and probably welcome change, and at last we're seeing cautious OPWs for more than £10,000!

Well done Penny - great result, and although a fairly cautious deal it proved to be perfect timing!

Having gone past her target it was obvious she was going to ignore the West Wing Wakeyists and go with Adam's advice. And it would have been a horrible ending if she had played on there.

The show has gone to pot.

Noel wanted a dreamer today and all we got was a Wakeyist nightmare. This lot are so feeble that the banker can insult them with pathetic offers and they still deal. Lets face it she would have walked if he'd stuck at £15,000.

Another spectacular crash during proveout will reinforce the cautiousness and I am seriously starting to doubt if the show will ever pick up from this current nadir. When contestants still deal a contemptuous offer with 3 of the power 5 still on the board what hope is there for a bit of excitement ever again.

She was a nice girl and I'm sure has fulfilled her modest goals but as she admitted she was there to make a bit of money and no more. Every contestant seems like this these days. No one wants to go for it any more.

I can see people switching off their droves if this continues.

There's always been a lot of target-driven contestants, as far as I can remember... for every big gambler you will get several of these.

Do I remember you saying that you only started watching around last November though basicasic? If so you certainly picked the era of the Wakeyist, as over the next couple of months we had players who took on some huge risks and were rewarded for their courage - Lynne, Claudine, Laura, Bunney etc. And those who did deal early were often punished for it, as the £250k kept coming to the table.

Now we're back in the bad box cycle, and bad luck has promoted a perhaps unprecedented wave of caution. That will change at some stage, when we have a run of strong boards and a few contestants prepared to take a chance. But I don't know if we will ever see an era like we saw between Lynne and Bunney's games again.

YAY! Penny! Woo!!! Great person, deserved the win!!

Isn't the object to beat the banker and not necessarily
go on to the end? Otherwise what is the point of having
a banker and having offers with shows that are unpredictable
because you don't know whether the contestants will
deal or no deal? Yes I would probably have gone on one more
round but it wouldn't have served me well, and Penny beat the banker
comprehensively today! It was a great show.

That was the best game ever!!! I *beep* loved Penny and really wanted her to do well - I was hoping she would turn down that £22,500 because it certainly looked as if there was more in the board, but that proveout was amazing!! In the next four boxes after she dealt, she took out the four highest amounts left! If E2 didn't already have so many legends then Penny would definitely be a contender for the best player ever from there - she was awesome!

Maybe it was just luck that I started watching during a Wakeyist era. There were cautious players even then but there was also a decent sprinking of gamblers. Every show was different and us Wakeyists were happy to put up with the cautious deals because a risk taker was always around the corner.

Variety, I guess, is the key to keeping everybody happy. I just hope some gamblers are in the pipeline to redress tha balance a little.

I think Rodney and Dave look like no-dealers, and they're due up quite soon... And Adam claims to be a gambler really despite his strong advice to deal 99% of the time!

And I thought the aim of the show was to make the most of your once in a lifetime's chance and try to win a quarter of a million pounds. But I guess I represent the Wakeyist faction (now that Wakey himself is banned).

I understand fully the opposing cautious faction who will deal once their modest target is achieved irrespective of the board that is left or the quality of the bankers offer.

There are many ways to play the game. We just seem to be in an never ending rut of cautious players which are making the show seem dull. Would one risk taker a week be too much to ask for?

And with Rev Adam and Eric 'the deal' to come I'm starting to lose hope ......

I don't think Eric's purely a "dealer". He seems to think about the situation and the board when he gives his advice, a definite category 2 in my three types of DOND players!

Well Done Penny!

Another fantastic show today. Enjoy the money and your trip to Australia.

Very Well Done!