There's about £915,000 on this board. 17-box average is therefore... in the fifties... and there's still seven blues on the board, it's just that three of them are red.

A huge complicating factor here is the Deal Wheel. Also, that 23 with the £150k jackpot and the no-nothing configuration I've got for it - on one hand I can salvage anything with that, on the other hand the -£5k might wind up as a Nothing but barely scratches at any high stakes...

And this is a very difficult board to evaluate in stability terms. Or is it? Seven "blues," and if you account for the jackpot being bumped up 2.4-fold, I've basically got the equivalent of three oranges, £10k, £15k, and £50k. Would I deal an equivalently generous offer with those six reds, the £250k, and seven blues? I would. So I have to take this as well. DEAL!

21, 20, 22.

Well.. Spank me with a wet flannel.. It's a DEAL for £30,000!

I wasn't expecting that, but The Banker is back - the original and he's on form!

It's ALREADY proveout time..

Box 21-

£50

The lowest value..

Box 20-

£100

The lowest value

Box 22-

£26,650

NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

BT

Wow, that... was not the round I anticipated having. I was thinking I wanted to play on just because I wanted to keep having fun, just shows that sometimes the worst reasoning can produce the best results in this game.

**RING**

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£40,000

This is going to sound weird, but that validates my Deal. If a round that good only bumped the offer up 25%? I needed to play to 8-box minimum.

13, 15, 19.

Box 13-

£750

Box 15-

£12,005

And THERE'S the wheel! We'll be back in a spin..

My goodness. The worst-case scenario might honestly be LOCK IN and then four more boxes of this luck.

THIS is what would have happened with the wheel..




Box 19-



BT

**RING**

The average is now over £100,000... He thinks that you're now regretting the fact you dealt at the second offer..

BANKER'S OFFER

BANKER'S CONDITIONAL GAMBLE

HAND BACK £30,000 and you can come back into LIVE play.

However.

1- You must accept the deal wheel spin

and

2- The Banker gets to look inside your box

I'm still not regretting it. What I am doing is having to think about whether I'm OK with playing on in those circumstances, because that is definitely a valid question now.

My CURRENT Box 23 money menu options: £60k / £180k / £30k / £25k / £15k. £310k on there, average £62k.

If I play on, my new money menu offers me about 97% of my stake plus £24k (ish, dividing these numbers by six is awkward), compared to my current 110% + £29k. In short, I'm down £5k for sure plus a fraction of my stake, but of course the point is the volatility of my stake.

IF I keep the jackpot, even if I keep the three "blues" with it, I should get a massive offer. But "should" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, especially with the Banker knowing what's on the table. And if I lose it, then the best-case scenario is an average in the £30k range, and there's a 3/8 chance of that.

NO DEAL, but that was close enough that now I've got more regret potential. That is the decision I'll look back on. Brilliantly engineered.

11, 7, 9. We know what we want to see.

Still out of live play, still wanting to find that Jackpot..

Box 11-

£7,500.50p

Is not it.

Box 7-

£7,501

IS ALSO NOT IT..

That gives you THIS six box stack;

1p
£110
£550
£40,150
£108,900
£650,000


Box 9-



BT

My goodness.

It's safe to say the Banker's decision to go big to get me to go home at 14-box miiiight have worked out. Wow.

**RING**

The Banker claims this was the game of a lifetime and you have thrown it away..

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£80,000

By not being psychic, yes.

It was indeed an incredible game. And he stopped it before it really started. Say what you like about my decision, HE made the decision to play safe and make a stopping offer at a point of the game that doesn't normally produce one, and THAT was the winning move. Courage, caution, and calculation all in one move. Congratulations to him, he is well and truly back.

5, 3, 1.

Box 5-

£40,150

**RING**

He would have called here...

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£96,500

Box 3-

£108,900

On a knife edge!

**RING**

BANKER'S OFFER WOULD'VE BEEN

£82,000

Box 1-



BT