22 boxes, yours being number 8...

Are you ready?

Yes! I may not be able to stick around for the whole of the game though, in which case tomorrow evening will be the likely finishing time for it...

First 5 then...

1.

18.

6.

16.

19.

1 - £250,000! Hey, these things happen.
18 - 50p. Perfect reply.
6 - £20,000. Not good.
16 - £1. Two from his Power 5 already..
19 - £250. And a third blue.

Banker's offer:

£3,000

NO DEAL.

Next 3.

5.

17.

7.

5 - £10,000...
17 - 10p. There we go.
15 - £15,000. Big holes in this board already... and this is an offer with lots of holes in it.

Banker's offer:

£6,809.08

NO DEAL again.

Next 3:

12.

14.

15.

12 - £3,000. Pretty good.
14 - £500. Better...
15 - £100. Better still!

Banker's offer:

£11,000

Yes... getting better!

It's still a NO DEAL though...

Next 3:

21.

9.

13.

21 - £10! Really getting better now!
9 - £1,000. May as well be blue... after taking out the quarter of a million first box, you've not touched anything else in the Power 5!
13 - £35,000! Oh. But it's still the lowest!

Banker's offer:

£16,500

It's tempting to deal, but with 3 big ones acting like a block there, I think it has to be a no deal for now...

Next 3:

20.

4.

2.

20 - £75,000! No block now...
4 - £5,000. There's the last small red... thsi must be blue.
2 - £5! Thank goodness.

Final five:

1p
£50
£750
£50,000
£100,000

Banker's offer:

£15,000

I think it's a DEAL there.

Final 3.

22.

10.

11.

22 - £50,000. Couldn't be clearer what needs to happen now...
10 - £50. Not that time...
11 - 1p!

Banker's offer would've been:

£26,000

Box 8 had £100,000 (insert final five minutes of the show sponsored by partypoker.com and Noel Edmonds, interrupted only to reveal £750 in box 3)

Thanks for the games

Haha... "£26,000 my arse" is my response. Thank you for the games as well...

Where would you/others have dealt?

I would have quite easily played to the end there with the backup being a modest £750, and the unoriginal £26,000 amount not tempting me much.

I may have gone at £16,500 actually. £15,000 would have been one I'd want to turn down but probably couldn't; I'd take £26,000 for sure.

I may have gone at £16,500 too actually, simply because of the lack of safety backups. Replace the £100k with £250k and I'd see more potential in the board, but would still be worried due to the lack of backups.

If I were Mad Mark then I'd say "No deal all the way to £100,000 as I couldn't face the possibility of winning a blue". Makes no sense but it's not supposed to is it?

While we're on the subject, I must admit ever since I started talking to certain people *cough*, I've developed a much stronger intent to gamble for more money.

I pray this is just bearing in mind it will never be me playing for real money, and not something I should be worried about should I ever visit a casino!

And then once you got the £15k offer you were relieved it was close to what you turned down, making it a quicker Deal?



Legendary.

Surely that should be "certain *beep*"?



Quite probably, quite probably...