Recap of tonight's show!

Game #1 for tonight is...

Contestant: Donato DeMarinis!

Donato apparently is wearing an American flag shirt and showing his patriotism.

After Donato gets on the podium, Howie has a flag unfurled, except that this flag was a Canadian flag! (since Howie is from Canada) However, the next flag that gets unfurled in front of that Canadian flag is a very large American flag!

He says that his grandmother Casey was born on the 16th of March, and Kasie is holding Case #16, so therefore...

Chosen case: 16!

Round 1: 6 Cases to open

21: $50,000
8: $75
19: $75,000
15: $200,000
1: $200
9: $400,000

Banker's offer: $30,000!

NO DEAL!

Round 2: 5 Cases to open

7: $25,000
3: $50
10: $5,000
24: $750,000
22: $1

Banker's offer: $44,000!

Apparently, they have a satellite link to Times Square, where some previous winners from the New York area are viewing the game, including Donato's nephews, as well as the biggest USA DoND winner to date!

NO DEAL!

Round 3: 4 Cases to open

6: $100
13: $0.01! This time Lucky Leyla and her #13 come through.
2: $25 Getting to be a rare nice round
23: $1,000,000!!! And the road to a nice round crashes all of a sudden with this case! OUCH!

Banker's offer: $29,000!

NO DEAL!

Round 4: 3 Cases to open

25: $100,000
18: $500,000! Virtually a one-case game from this point on...
4: $5 And Case #4 does bring some respite here

The fact that it is now virtually a one-case game gave the banker an excuse to punish Donato and lower the offer.

Banker's offer: $22,000!

And a USA DoND (if not a DoND first of any sort), an animated cartoon character comes out of the vault! And it's Bobby, and Bobby asks Donato the question, and Donato says...

NO DEAL! and Bobby goes back to the vault!

Round 5: 2 Cases to open

11: $500
20: $750

The Final 6 Cases

- $10
- $300
- $400
- $1,000
- $10,000
- $300,000

Banker's offer: $41,000!

NO DEAL!

Round 6: 1 Case to open

14: $300

Banker's offer: $53,000!

NO DEAL!

Round 7: 1 Case to open

5: $400

Banker's offer: $76,000!

Donato says the offer was pitched because of the American Spirit (since 76 comes from 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence), and he now decides to...

DEAL! at $76,000 and fireworks come out as well as an American patriotic song comes out as background music instead of the normal DoND background music.

However, did Donato make a good deal???

Round 8: 1 Case to open

26: $10 That would have cleared out the left side, which meant he was guaranteed at least $1,000.

Banker's offer would have been at that point, an over the mean offer of $113,000!

Round 9: 1 Case to open

17: $10,000 Not good enough!

The Final 2 Cases would have been...

- $1,000
- $300,000

The offer at that point would have been another over the mean offer of $163,000!

Howie now opens his case #16, and did he make a good deal by selling a $1,000 case for $76,000 or did he make a really bad deal and the case is now revealed to contain...

16: $1,000!

To prove it, Jill opens up her case to reveal...

12: $300,000

Game Summary:

Peak offer: $163,000
Case value: $1,000
Prize won: $76,000
Result: Technical Banker Win (53-47)

A short Game #2 of the night is...

Contestant: Kate Miller!

Chosen case: 13

Round 1: 6 Cases to open

21: $10
11: $50
3: $500,000
7: $5,000
17: $1,000,000! Top prize still stays unwon
1: $5 Much better!

Banker's offer: $15,000!

NO DEAL!

And this ends the recap!