Hello, and welcome to Week 17 to What Would You Really Do?!

Last week's game was full of excitement. We had our very first all power 5 finish, but sadly only £35,000 was brought to the table. The good news is hogwild94 negotiated the offer to the average, £67,500, which put him as the winner of last week.

I mean, this is a friendly game and not a competition at all. But hogwild94 won and everyone else lost. No hard feelings. He's just better than the rest of you.

Player statistics for games up to Week 16

Net winnings
1. American Coupon Boy (£330,812.50 over 14 games)
2. hogwild94 (£243,820.61 over 12 games)
3. Archstered (£213,606.01 over 15 games)
4. JoelDavies (£200,200 over 13 games)
5. daniel123 (£190,760.60.60 over 14 games)
6. KP (£155,863.12 over 12 games)
7. Skyline (£152,311.10 over 12 games)
8. box11 (£102,751 over 8 games)

Average winnings
1. American Coupon Boy (£23,629.46/game over 14 games)
2. hogwild94 (£20,318.38/game over 12 games)
3. JoelDavies (£15,400/game over 13 games)
4. Archstered (£14,240.40/game over 15 games)
5. daniel123 (£13,625.76/game over 14 games)
6. KP (£12,988.59/game over 12 games)
7. box11 (£12,843.88/game over 8 games)
8. Skyline (£12,692.59/game over 12 games)

Banker spankings (# OPWs)
7: hogwild94
5: American Coupon Boy, JoelDavies
4: daniel123
3: Archstered, box11
2: KP, Skyline

Player spankings (# OBWs + OPLs)
9: Archstered
8: Skyline
6: daniel123, KP
5: American Coupon Boy
4: box11, hogwild94, JoelDavies

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Guest banker schedule
Week 17: American Coupon Boy
Week 18: Skyline
Week 19: hogwild94
Week 20: ~*MYSTERY*~
Week 21: Saperogo

Anyone who wishes to be guest banker should ask me, either by post in here or by PM!

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This game will start at midnight tonight, which means I have finally recovered the schedule back to where we were when this game started!

American Coupon Boy is guest banker this week, and daniel123 will be choosing the boxes. Box 1 has been brought to the table.

Anyway, the reason I'm posting this now instead of at the start of round 1 is because I must share a very important message from American Coupon Boy.


Awww. How sweet.

If only that were real.

Here's what he really told me:


Oooh, vicious. Let's hope we don't have an all red opening round!

If we have an all-red round and I'm offered 1p, I wish to notify the Banker that I shall be suing - for the difference in monetary values between that 1p and whatever value he 'would offer here'; as this amounts, usually, to between £10,000 and £16,000, I would suggest that the Banker rescind his 'threat' should an all-red opening round occur.

I would like to thank The Banker for his time and concern regarding this matter, and trust that he takes my advice on board.

I called bulls*** as soon as I finished reading the first sentence.

As expected, it's another boring whine about what's he's offering.

For those whining about my threat, keep in mind that you can negotiate a better offer, though there's no promise the negotiation cap is higher than 2 pence.

And now it's time for the NEW Fair-Deal Winnings Benchmark Leader-board:

1. American Coupon Boy: £14,622.58
2. Joel Davies: £13,939.60
3. hogwild94: £12,001.22
4. Archstered: £10,198.10
5. daniel123: £10,159.57
6. box 11: £9,556.33
7. KP: £9,037.91
8. Skyline: £9,032.90

YES, after 15 weeks of Joel Davies leading, he's finally been surpassed by ME. My moderately aggressive board reading (i.e. playing for the big money when it's reasonably there to be won then sensibly cutting my losses if it doesn't work out) has finally paid off superbly. Unfortunately for Skyline, he is still in dead last, but on the up side he only needs to win about £100 to £200 more than KP this round to overtake him.

Also, hogwild94 still has his risk-free negotiation for the last time I was guest banker, but he MUST use it this game or it will expire.

Round 1

Let's do this.

3 - £15,000

This rules out ACB's £21,000 offer promise. Four more reds and two of these offers are reduced to 1p...

5 - 10p

That's really good news! Now let's find three more blues!

19 - £10,000

Fine then. Two more blues!

15 - £5,000

Well, at least the board is nicely divided into nice sums and not-so-nice sums.

21 - 1p

It is always preferable to see the bottom two go than it is for the top two to go. (Well, in live play, at least.)



American Coupon Boy time...

(Proof.)

(daniel123, please let me know at least your next three box selections within 24 hours. )

I've been juggling around offers in my head and decided:

Banker's offer:

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Continuing, I decided £5,000, also known as the holding offer, was not enough.

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Then I realized that the mid-2013 would offer something like that, and I despise him with every bone in my body. So I changed it.

Banker's offer:

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You seriously think I'm offering more than that after discovering 3 reds in the opening round. FAT CHANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!


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I then realized that I'm tired of playing around, so I want all you maggots to Deal the 1st offer and make my job easy this week.

Banker's offer:

£20,000


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Thinking I'm going to offer EVEN MORE? NO WAY IN THE WORLD.

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There's NO WAY I'm offering more, so I don't know why you even scrolled down this far.

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Fine, I'll offer a bit more.



This is officially the HIGHEST OPENING OFFER in Deal or No Deal history. Oh, and to make this easy, I will go down if ANY of the Top 6 are discovered in the next round, so don't be stupid and TAKE THE OFFER.

Yeah, that's a fairly straightforward decision. DEAL!

Ooops, I forgot to mention something. If the Top 6 are NOT touched in the next round, the offer will be at least £30,000.

Sorry, I forgot, er, I meant to say...

No thanks.

DEAL.

Oh, and I forgot to mention something else. If you keep the Top 6 in play the offer will be at least £30,000, but if the next round is all-blue, I'll offer £35,001.

American Coupon Boy, we need to have a talk about the budget. The way you're currently making offers, we'll be broke by Week 19.

If you could afford 4 Power 5 wins last week, I'm pretty sure you can afford this.

That's tempting.

No Deal.

Round 1 results

In live play
Archstered
Skyline

Dealt at first offer
daniel123
KP

Round 2

If you ignore the fact that hogwild94 hasn't joined yet, ACB successfully got half the people to deal.

Here we go...

17 - £250,000

Good news to the dealers, but bad news to everyone playing and hoping to win the £250k! When will such a thing happen? Never?

11 - £35,000

All power 5 round?

7 - £5

There is some light at the end of the tunnel.



American Coupon Boy time...

(Proof.)

(Your next three boxes, daniel123? )

Well, I promised the offer would be lower.

Banker's offer:

£20,000

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AMO alert!!!!!!!!! Heck NO.

Banker's offer:

£15,000


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You seriously think I'll offer 84% of the average at this point in the game? Well, maybe I will.

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OR maybe I won't.

Banker's offer:

£10,000

As always, you can negotiate a better offer.

Please just give the offer next time.

No Deal.

No problem.