Sometimes contestants are asked if they have a financial target
when they come to the crazy chair, and if they do it sometimes
gets written in the book by Noel.

If you were at the pound table playing today,
would you have a target, and what would it be?
Also would you automatically accept any offer
if it met your target or surpassed it?

I think I'd write £50k - I think I'd accept anything over it on more or less any board, unless it was a particularly insulting offer (such as a £50k offer on a £100k/£35k last pair). Otherwise below that, I'd play the offer against the values left on the board, but deal for less if I didn't fancy the chances of the offer improving much.

I'd have accepted £51k on £75k Kirsty's last 5, despite it being a bit mean, there was a 10% chance of losing more or less the lot!

30 thousand would be my target.

And even if the 250k was still there i would deal i am not good with nerves and that would be a gamble.

I'd come with no target and I'd merely play the game, and when the time felt right to deal, I would. Each game pans out differently, and so my targets and expectations would alter with my game.

I think I'd write £20k in the book. I look at it like this really:

1p to £1k = Rubbish.
£1k to £5k = Disappointing.
£5k to £10k = Bit disappointing.
£10k to £15k = Good.
£15k to £20k = Very good.
£20k+ = Awesome.

Hmm this is interesting, Rico... not sure this has been discussed before... (not recently, anyway!).

I think my target would vary with the game - ideally I'd like to get at least £20,000, but if I was in a situation where I was offered £15,000 on a very risky board (such as 4 blues and £100,000), then I'd definitely deal, whereas if I was offered £15,000 on a very strong board, I'd likely no deal.

I'd like to think I'd never deal at the first or second offer as you can normally get more out of the game but if one of these offers was £30k or more, I'd find it very hard to turn it down.

If I ended up with a 1p vs £10k board and an offer of £3,500 or something, then I'd probably deal to at least get something out of the game!

I think I'd actually prefer to have one of those games where it starts off badly and you end up winning £15,000 - £20,000 rather than a game where it starts off well and you turn down some early high offers, only to have your game fall apart and end up dealing at £5,000 - £10,000 or even less... however there are some games where a crash and burn would be unavoidable! Such as Lynn's game - I'd have probably no dealt her second £15,000 and dealt the £1,000 like she did!

Although I suppose you can't really tell how you're going to act until you're actually there!

My target would be- £35,000 (because it is a nice amount and also the least won amount, besides the blues of course)

I think I would deal ANY blue/£250K board at £50,000 or more but would no deal ANY 1p/any red bar £250K because I would want to go for it.


If my second or third offer was £35,000 I would be gone! I wouldn't care about what people think. Also, if my first offer was £20,000 or more then I would deal immediately

I'm not sure revealing a target to the banker is a good idea. It gives him something to aim at and on a good board may encourage him to offer less than he might have if he thinks it hits the target. It also reveals you will deal which will temper his offers. If I had a target I would keep it to myself.

However I don't have any particular target amount but as long as the £250k, £100k, or £75k are still on the board I would plough on unless the offer was particularly generous.

I'm also influenced by how generous the banker's offer is. If I considered it insulting (eg Laura £45k offer) I would go on regardless of the amount.

That's what the black book is for - writing down your target so the banker doesn't know it and cannot influence you by offering you money he knows you will take.

But the fact that you've written something implies that there is an amount of money which you'll probably take if he offers it to you...unless you just write something like "I don't care, I've had a great experience" or whatever.

I wonder how many do actually write a target, as it's likely it gets edited out often. Maybe that's why the offers fluctuate so much?! And the viewer wouldn't be aware if a target was written or not if they edited it out... Who was the last player to write a target in the book? Noel does sometimes say "We haven't done this for a while..." but I bet there are some times when it gets edited out. I remember one player who recently wrote a target in the book, Noel said they'd reveal it at the end and they never did... I've forgotten who it was... maybe recent Phil or Darren?

Is it worth commenting that the player you have in your avatar dealt at 30 thousand? What a coincidence!

That's what I meant.

I wouldn't come with a target. What will be will be and any money I do win (even if it was 1p) would be the icing on the cake.

I don't really like the idea of taking money thats not mine/that I haven't earnt/that I don't deserve, so I wouldn't be there for the money at all, I'd probably donate most of it to charity anyway.

It would be a privilege just to be on the show and meeting new people, and the whole experience of it all would be most important to me.

£250 000.

To win anything above £20,000 would be great, but I wouldn't have a set target in mind as if the board was good and the offers not too generous I would seriously contemplate going all the way. For example if my final two were £50,000 and £250,000 and the offer was £105,000 I would probably no deal. As long as the banker doesn't know the target amount, then I don't think it has much of an affect on the offers.

I don't think I'd have a target as such, as it would all depend on how the game developed.

I'd certainly be there for a shot at the big money at the start, I'd probably find it hard to turn down £30k plus if there was significant disaster potential in the next round. So I'd need a Gaz/Laura type game to reach six figures probably.

If I just got a really unlucky game that never got going then the chances are I'd just keep going in the hope of ending up with a reasonable amount in my box or a decent final offer.

I wouldn't write anything the book, but I'd want around £70,000, which would be very rare anyway...

I doubt i'd write anything in the book but around £20,000

I second that!