Chris's game today.

Noel talks about how tough Crystal's game was yesterday, and he says we must pretend today is the first ever game, and forget all previous games.

What?! Do we have to forget about Laura and Alice, and £100k Dale too??!

Chris has box 18.

Chris is a dog-walker from Bristol, and he talks about how he recently took a trip across the world on a whim! He has his parents in the audience, and he says they're about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Chris also introduces us to his friend who's in the audience.

Chris shows a photo of him and his friends at a football match at Wembley, and another pic of him in New Zealand. He has a lucky poker chip with him, and he says he plays a lot of poker and is up for having a calculated gamble. Chris has a tub of wax with him due to Noel's recent comments about how he's too old to wax his hair! He reminds Noel that he promised to put on some wax in his game! A man in the audience called John tells Noel that he has to be a man of his word, so Noel says he'll wax his hair if John will, and he agrees!

Here we go...

Anyway, Chris plays just a day after he was actually right to advise caution at a strong-looking 8-box.

I wonder what will happen if he himself has a board that looks deceptively good...?

Round 1

1 - Clare - £100,000

4 - Dave - 1p

Newbie Hilde now, and she talks about how she lives in Birmingham but she's originally from a small town near Hanover in Germany. She says Noel's fantastic!

17 - Hilde - £750

2 - Will - £20,000

5 - Becky - £10

Banker time

Mmm - very mixed opening round...

The banker says Noel's hair looks nice! He says he enjoyed Hilbe's entrance to the show.

Banker's offer:

£10,000

Hmm - same opening offer as Crystal even though her first five boxes were better...

Noel says that's exceptional. Chris talks about what he wants to do with the money, including giving some money to Stephen and Crystal who won blues in the last 2 shows.

Chris says

NO DEAL

Noel gets John down from the audience and they go off to get their hair done!

Noel calls a break...

I have to say that I wasn't expecting an offer of £10k after taking out £20k & £100k.

I know JT won £39k and is believed to have given £1k of that to Lucy "50 Shows" Harrington - are there any other contestants who may have given some of their winnings to fellow players who had bad games?

Right, I'm going to be a little bit controversial here but I dont like it when players start saying their going to help previous players. For a start it can backfire tactically as the banker decides how much to allocate to the other players, and also, call me cynical, it comes across a little bit too worthy. He could just as easily help them without making such a big deal about it in his game.

We're back

Round 2

Noel welcomes John back on set with his waxed hair, and then Noel comes out with his waxed hair, and he looks like Albert Einstein after an electric shock.

12 - Sam - £10,000

8 - Hugo - £75,000

11 - Vera - £15,000

Banker time

The banker says Noel looks like Ken Dodd, and he and Chris look like a bad Wham tribute.

Banker's offer:

£7,500


Chris says

NO DEAL

Now that's not a good round...

Well at this rate Chris may be needing a handout from a future player!

Round 3

14 - Ian - £35,000

Noel says this is an extraordinary era for the show.

15 - Sophie - £5,000

Noel calls a break...

Oh dear, just 4 reds left and it's still only the third round.
If he REALLY wants to help Crystal, Stephen, get money for his parents AND for himself then Chris really has to be prepared to go all the way.

Did you forget to say Chris said no deal to that £7.5k, H?

Anyway, it's not looking good at all at 12-box...

10p
50p
£1
£5

£50
£100
£250
£500

£1,000
£3,000





£50,000


£250,000