Stu's game today.

Noel says he can smell fear in the Dream Factory. The fear started with Glen's game when he went away with £100 doubled to £200. He says yesterday how the banker undoubtedly saved money as Jules dealt at £18,500 and could've had £22,500.

Noel asks if the west wing are worried and Brian says he is Shaun says he isn't. Katie says she won't be influenced. Newbie Angie says she's not nervous... and quite a few others say the same... Noel wonders what the smell is and someone says the smell is Noel!

Stu has box 16.

His name is Stuart Tremble and his name is French by origin. He's from Cumbria and he says he'll sit down to do Noel a favour, as he's so tall! Stu admits he is a traffic warden But he says he's a very nice one and he has a heart. Noel goes off set and brings on a traffic cone Noel says Stu has 45 minutes to park here and then he's out!!

Stu met Maureen on an online dating agency. He shows some pics of when he was on holiday with her. Noel talks about the power of the internet

Here we go...

Another day without a sob story or tears

Things are looking up!

15 - Glenis - £1

5 - Namfon - 50p

Kenny says everyone calls Kenny and Stu twins, even though Kenny's very short

22 - Kenny - £5,000

Noel says this is starting like Jules' game

17 - Mark - £3,000

4 - newbie Angie - £75,000

Oohs for that, Noel talks about the curse of the newbie

Time for the banker...

Stu says he still has the top 2.

The banker loves Stu as the banker is now the second most evil person in the room He says the traffic cone is there for a reason, and a workman comes out and sticks double yellow lines on the floor behind Stu and sticks a penalty notice on Stu!

Banker's offer

£6,900

Stats after Round 1
Offer: £6,900
Mean: £28,392.07
Offer (%): 24.30%
Fair Deal: £10,128.41
Volatility: 1.07
Redometer: 3

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Board
1p
10p


£5
£10
£50
£100
£250
£500
£750
£1,000


£10,000
£15,000
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000

£100,000
£250,000

The banker says the offer won't double in 14 days

Stu NO DEALS

I knew they'd flog the traffic warden thing to death.

But he does deserve it

Stu says Clive is an ambassador for the farming community

Clive says Noel gives him flack about his accent, but he says Lloyd is going to Spain to teach English but he can't speak English as he has such a strong Welsh accent!

20 - Clive - 1p

19 - Katie - £1,000

Stu calls the break!

Not too shabby a start, apart from the £75,000.

Stu - he looked tall enough on the wings, now he's at the table he looks at least another foot taller!

Not a bad start! Keep going Stu.

We're back. Noel tells the cameraman to keep moving as there are double yellow lines!!

18 - Brian - £5

Banker time...

Would be looking for about £14,500 with a board like that!

Stu says his Dad is his biggest hero and he's had MS for many years and he's now 65 and he says he's amazing and never gives up! He says his Mum is always there for him through thick and thin. Stu says he'd love to send them to Africa on a safari.

The banker is feeling uncomfortable. He says Stu is like a human camel! Because of his big eyes and eyelashes

Banker's offer

£20,000

Clive standing strong for the much undervalued farming community! What a man! You city dwellers wouldnt survive a week without is farmers, Traffic Wardens on the other hand....

Stats after Round 2
Offer: £20,000
Mean: £34,404.29
Offer (%): 58.13%
Fair Deal: £14,347.27
Volatility: 1.08
Redometer: 20 (↑17)

Board

10p



£10
£50
£100
£250
£500
£750



£10,000
£15,000
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000

£100,000
£250,000

Very very nice!

Stu says it's a huge offer and he NO DEALS

Yikes! What an offer!

Tempting already, but far too early to go for me.

6 - Claire - 10p

Stu shouts words of encouragement

Stu says how Natasha made it on time today

3 - Natasha - £250,000

11 - Shaun - £750

Banker time...

The banker says he's glad Natasha booked an alarm call and turned up on time today. He points out if Natasha had not revealed £250k, the offer would be in the £30,000 s.

Banker's offer

£16,000

Just a 1.8% chance of taking out the Bankers Power 5 before the end of round 3! Although £20k would be amazingly generous now...

Stats after Round 3
Offer: £16,000
Mean: £20,991.82
Offer (%): 76.22%
Fair Deal: £10,914.91
Volatility: 0.76
Redometer: 20 (↑↓0)

Board





£10
£50
£100
£250
£500




£10,000
£15,000
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000

£100,000

The banker wants Stu to stick that offer in his hump and go back to the desert with it!

Noel thinks the banker respects Stu

Stu NO DEALS

Shame about the £250k but still plenty up there to go for. £16k shouldn't be too hard to no deal I would have thought.

Deano says Maureen's children will think it's the best bit of internet shopping she ever did, as Stu is such a nice bloke

21 - Deano - £50

10 - Geoff - £100

Noel reckons the offer of £16k is an offer of a frightened man and he calls a break

OK think for a second that the top prize from the start is £100,000 - that is a very strong board!!!

As is so often the first box after the break is crucial.

We're back.

Pat says Stu can put a ticket on her windscreen any time

13 - Pat - £50,000

Banker time...

Noel points out the BIG gap there is now...

But Stu says he's happy with the block of four reds. The banker says it's turning into a 1-box game and Noel disagrees as he says you can't dismiss £20k and £35k. The banker is worried about giving £100k to a traffic warden and doesn't know what his evil friends will think about it...

Banker's offer

£17,500

Arghh

Stats after Round 4
Offer: £17,500
Mean: £22,595.00
Offer (%): 77.45%
Fair Deal: £12,897.60
Volatility: 1.24
Redometer: 21 (↑1)

Board





£10


£250
£500




£10,000
£15,000
£20,000
£35,000


£100,000

There's 3 higher than that offer. I would go on.

Never mind! Still a good board to play with for at least one more round.

Katie tells Stu that if he knocks out the £100k, his offer will go down. Mark says he has good backups and that he's a gambler and he'd go for it himself. Most of the audience seem to say no deal... a lot say deal though. Noel says it's a lot of money but he wants Stu to be brave and doesn't want to see Glen's game influence him. Stu says it's so hard and he has to give it a serious think.

Clive says £17.5k is a real sum of money and £100k is just a pie in the sky at the moment, as it's just money on the board. Stu says he's been brought up to never have regrets about what he does

Stu DEALS

I agree with that, I would have gone on at that offer, with 3 nice sums above the offer.

Not too sure if that was done out of fear or out of decisive targets.

Whichever it was, I would have played on.

He's played the game and got a nice sum out of it, I really dont know what I'd have done there...

Why do they keep cutting to that blond granny in the audience?

Noel says he thought Stu was going to No Deal and he says that's fascinating. Noel asks him what happened and Stu says he's in the process of buying a house at the moment with Maureen and her kids - he says if he had been single, he'd have no dealt - he wants money for the kids to take them on holiday. He says £100k would be nice but he's played the game and he's happy with what he's got.

Noel says it's an uncomfortable fact that he's opted out with one of the stronger boards we've had of late, and a lot of players would have played on.

Stu says he has NO regrets at all, but Noel says if we can't prove he won't have won £100k, then WILL be regrets...

14 - Danny - £35,000

Noel says that's one of the 3 parts of the perfect round now

7 - Nikki - £20,000

Noel says it's good; but now this one HAS to be £100k...

8 - MJ - £15,000

Noel says "It's not good enough, it's not good enough"

Banker time...

The banker wonders what kind of a world it is as he doesn't like giving £17,500 to a traffic warden. Noel thinks he's had some incidents with traffic wardens in the past

Banker's offer would've been

£13,000

I'd say that was good enough and I'd expect a stick...

Stats after Round 5
Offer: £13,000
Mean: £22,152.00
Offer (%): 58.69%
Fair Deal: £8,374.52
Volatility: 9.29
Redometer: 3 (↓18)

Board
£10
£250
£500
£10,000
£100,000


Even better!

Yes! Yes! Yes! Beautiful!!!

Noel says if Stu finds £100k this will be the first signifcant player victory of 2008... or it could be one of the biggest disasters ever.

12 - Sue - £100,000

Stu has got the first OPW by dealing since James in November, I think!!

Noel says the big man beat the banker

2 - Lloyd - £500

1 - Simon - £10,000

Banker time with £10 and £250 remaining

Not good enough, what the hell lol - all-red round and all three were five figure amounts!!!

He took out the top 6 amounts after he dealt, that would have been an unimaginable trainwreck if he went on

Stats after Round 6
Offer: £99
Mean: £130.00
Offer (%): 76.15%
Fair Deal: £90.00
Volatility: 25.00
Redometer: -9 (↓12)

Board
£10
£250

Banker's offer would've been

£99 and the penalty notice will be forgotten about as long as Stu never darkens the banker's patch again

2nd offer was £20k so TPW?

FANTASTIC!

What a game!

Noel opens Stuart's box and reveals £250

The other box - 9 - Laura - £10

Stu thanks the audience and says they've been brilliant

Noel says it was just a perfect game as the money will mean a lot to Stu and his family, and DOND has helped him

Oh yes... I forgot that. So it wasn't quite an OPW... despite Noel saying that it was the perfect deal and "exactly the right time to deal".

congratulations Stu on a super game.hope you enjoy spending the dosh!Happy 2008 to you.

A very disappointing show. At the risk of saying something possibly unpopular I have to say Stu was quiet and quite dour and generated little in the way of excitement, humour or banter. If it hadn't been for the traffic warden jokes we could have been watching a funeral.

The lamentable deal just about summed it up. I know the proveout showed he got out at the right time but the fact that he took out 3 reds after and still got an offer of £13k showed just how feeble the deal was. He could have taken a moderate risk and possibly won a huge amount or as it happened still gone away with £13k.

I just don't know why people enter a gambling show when they haven't got any intention of taking even the slightest risk.

Congratulations Stu. Unfortunetly I couldn't watch the show as I was helping clean out a loft

Enjoy the money

Well that was unexpected! I admit too that thought he'd made a mistake when he dealt I must admit, but that showed how to prove me wrong!

And I think the 13k proveout offer sounded inflated as well - I'd have expected it to come in just below 10k like in 100k Gaz and Chrissie's games, then again Jayne got offered 20k with that as well!

But Noel was annoying - with this not good enough speeches when all the all-important saftey nets were being removed, and then saying it was the first victor of the year - surely if Stu sold a blue for £17,500 with a peak offer of £20,000 classes as a victory, then surely Jules selling a blue for £18,500 with a peak offer of £22,500 fulfills the same criteria?

Oh wait, he just must forget the early offers but always remembers post-deal offers.

D'oh!

Well done for beating the banker.

Well I thought today's game was quite a fun one what with all the traffic warden references which helped make the show more entertaining.

However the way they dragged out the 4th offer for such a long time it seemed like Stu was obviously going to deal. But in the end it proved the right thing to do so well done Stu.

But the one thing that did bother me through out the show was all these random audience shots. But not only that it always seemed to be the same people they showed time and time again especially the "blonde granny" as basicasic pointed out. I think there must of been at least 10 random shots of her in today's game.

Not a bad game today, Stu was a decent guy who deserved the money he got. But again, i feel there's something lacking...

I'm not going to go off the show straight away, but it needs a decent game/character or more tension...

How tall is Stu I mean he was massive on the show Noel was actually looking up to him

And did you see what Pat did? God, it was disgusting, opening that box that had been randomly assigned to her and revealing £50,000! I don't know why they've let her stay, she's such a trouble maker and it's not on is it.

Haven't you heard... he hosts Pat's fanclub now!!

Nice game. Who cares if it's an OPW, TPW, or whatever? If you sell your box for a lot more than what it's worth, then you're a winner. Stu sold his box for 70 times what it was worth. Thus, he made a great deal. He could have sold it for 80 times its value, but still, £17,500 for £250 is a great deal in anyone's math. Remember, the game is about beating the Banker by selling your box for as much as possible. Stu pretty much did that today. From across the pond, well done, Stu, and enjoy the money.

It was a good show, the traffic warden stuff wasn't overdone and was played to the right amount to get the intended comedic effect. Stu hadn't said much on the wings, but he seemed like a nice bloke in his game.

It was also interesting that they didn't make a huge deal about him being tall - it wouldn't surprise me if they'd made loads of jokes about it and brought out height-related gimmicks. I'm glad they didn't though, as the traffic warden stuff was enough.

It was a slightly cautious deal but it worked out well and turned out to be as good as an OPW!