No Deal!

Hopefully we'll get the £15,000 - £20,000 finish.

Round 5 results

In live play
jakecarroll84 (5/5)
willrelf (5/5)

Dealt at first offer
American Coupon Boy (1/1)
daniel123 (1/1)

Dealt at fourth offer
hogwild94 (3/4)

Dealt at fifth offer
Archstered (5/5)

Round 6

Indeed, let's hope for a £15k/£20k finish!

2 - £15,000

Well, it's still a one box game. We can still stuff American Coupon Boy's mouth with £20,000.

9 - £50

I might be jinxing ourselves, but let's please find the penny...

10 - £10

Not a jinx, but it's also not the penny. Very scary finish!



Or, if you prefer the squashdown version:



Banker time...

(Proof.)

I will make this a very fair deal.

Banker's offer:

£5,000

With an accepted negotiation, Deal. Thanks Banker. I would never want to go home with 1p so any reasonable offer would get me out of the chair at that point.

No Deal!

At this point, I would have dealt.

Box 11 held 1p!

OPWs for ACB and myself then!

Good game this week; properly twisty turny.

It's a good thing a negotiated, as I would've dealt at the 1st offer regardless of it being accepted because of a) my philosophy that you should Deal any opening offer above £15,000 as you're unlikely to get a lot more out of an average game and b) I was going on vacation with my family this week and I did not want to endanger my perfect attendance. Also, had I gone on, I would've No Dealt the 8 box offer and negotiated £5,000 at 5 box and dealt it if it was successful, so I probably would've won a lot less than £17,000.

By the way, Saperogo, what were the maximum negotiable offers in this week's game?

Sorry for the abrupt post; I had a friend over and had to budget a minute of my time into making that reveal.

The maximum negotiable offers this week were always £1,500 higher than the actual offer. For instance, American Coupon Boy negotiated the max negotiable offer of the first offer (£15,500 was the actual offer; he negotiated £17,000). The highest max negotiable offer was the fourth offer at £17,500; if you're going for a "Banker Milking" kind of victory, I'd think taking the highest max negotiable offer should be the proper criterion.

The past three weeks have featured various patterns for the max negotiable offers due to the real-life workload I've been facing. Starting next week, each max negotiable offer will go back to being individually selected.

That really is a kick in the teeth for me haha. At 8-box I offered a negotiation of £18,000, which was only £500 more than the max negotiable offer. Had it been accepted I would have been out of the chair. As it was, it was declined and I ended up with £6000 instead, a third of what I wanted.