Noel opens Bryan's box 7 and reveals £250

Paul with box 19 contains the £100

Noel reveals that Bryan has also won a week for 2 in Cyprus

Bryan says that the winnings will pay for a trip to South Africa to visit his wife's grandmother for her birthday.

So my lucky number failed me this time...maybe it's time I got myself a new lucky number

Excellent result for a first class board reader

And so we head into Sunday with the players 4-1 up and another Halloween week proving a bogey week for the Banker

Enjoy the money, Brian

Have a happy and safe Halloween, chaps, if anyone is heading out on Sunday

Yes, enjoyed that game very much from the front row - you may have noticed there was a lot of smoke because Noel had fluffed his 'instrument' playing at the beginning, we could barely see Noel, and I was right by the smoke machine, which was a bit choking!

Anyway, what a comeback, it was so tense in the studio from an early stage. That 3-box decision took him a fair while, he was tempted, but being a good reader of the board, made the sensible deal (blue/75k would've been about 30k I think), and a perfect finale!

Clever play by the banker at 5-box, not boosting the offers relative to the mean as he's done previously this week with Treat. Here's the stats:

8-box offer: £4,000 (39.19% of mean)
5-box offer: £9,500 (62.42%)
4-box offer: £11,750 (62.37%)
3-box offer: £17,000 (67.55%)

No gain at all at 4-box relative to the mean, and even the 3-box offer was a low increase. Would have expected £26,000 at 2-box if it were a blue, maybe higher if the banker was concerned.

Perhaps Bryan mentioning that he had no debts was an incentive for the banker to lower his generosity, as it's easier on the conscience should things go wrong. Conversely, if Bryan had been in debt, and considered taking the 5-box offer, the banker would have almost certainly intervened and said the next offer would have been higher than £11,750.

Bryan played well, and (in my opinion) left the game at the correct time, when it became clear the banker wasn't going to be generous with his offers. His advice to players in previous games, and ability to read the board well, made him a memorable character on the wings. Plus, winning £17,000 will act as a nice cushion for what he wants, and the holiday of course helps too!

Well done, and enjoy the money, Bryan.

Well it looked for a long time that Bryan was headed for an unavoidable trainwreck, really pleased he managed to turn it around - into a Banker Spanking no less . Good gameplay from a player who knew how to read the board and weigh up the odds. And somehow a victory that comes agains the odds is that little bit more satisfying...

What's going on with Millie & the £75k that's the third time in four days.

I noticed that as well, think she's turning into a black widow

It's a shame that the first half of the game prevented us from a classic Banker/board reader clash but a great result. I often find the easiest 1-box games in terms of decision making are 1-box games as it's a straight decision of how far you are willing to risk missing the red (and my philosophy has always been to go as far as 3-box unless one of the offers before was a insta-deal)

Indeed, although in these themed games and trying to get the players to 5-box, early offers might not have been great anyway. Difficult to tell really. I was kind of surprised to hear Bryan had been picked today because I thought they might save him for longer and for a regular game because he was so outspoken, plus with that thing he'd had on all week he might not have been able to see the boxes!

This is one of my favourite special weeks ever, that's the fourth really good one in 5 games (only Fadi's was a bit of a letdown). How he managed to get a £17k OPW out of that was amazing. Well done Bryan!

Indeed, it was doubly satisfying to get such a sizeable win after that awful start, was really tense as I said. Fadi's game was still very enjoyable despite the low win, he was a really interesting character.