Well, we are paying for what we watch, so we wanted something a little better than this!!!!

£12,000 is good but it isn't good enough when you have a great board and a good potential of an increase.

No matter how inflated the proveout offers were, it was always going to be an OBW.

Can't anybody support the banker then?

And is it your place to judge what is good and isn't good enough for Anne-Marie and her family? It *was* good enough obviously, which is why she dealt!

Every day.....

The LTL ending was hilarious!

Could anyone get a clip of that hilarious LTL at the end please on youtube?

The BT sponsorship is set to end this Monday (30th April). Unless they've renewed it.

Every day, you have to admit this week was a bit rubbish except from yesturdays game. Rita's was also nice, but still annoying.

Will we ever see the opposite of this?

Lol 12k wouldnt be nowhere near enough for me I want serious money to me if 12k is serious enough for her than fair play but the potential for so much more was extremly clear which is why it was a daft thing to cut and run at that point so to me it was cowardly.

I wonder if anyone will actually be spineless enough to deal at the second offer some day? lol well to be honest that would be more brave than gambling because the backlash they would get lol.

The potential was extremely clear?

So too was the potential for a disaster with that many blues on the board and only two substantially higher values. It was 77% of the mean too. I would probably have done exactly the same though it would certainly have been forgiveable not to - but no matter what Glenn claims, only keeping both the top two would have sent the offer up. £100k/£15k/nothing would have produced a stick at best.

Do you think Endemol are chucking in the AMO's to prevent people from dealing at the stage of 11? They're not doing a very good job of putting people off it!!!

I think they're just chucking them in to ensure people miss out on more money.

jmas07: without question, yes. And these players aren't going to fall for it that easily, because many of them presumably have clear ideas of what they want to do with the money, and not all of them treat sums of money below £20,000 as being somehow trivial.

lewis246: or what you said. Except because it's fake they haven't really missed out on that much. The real offers would have been £12k and £18k, I guess. Maybe £12k and £20k. So the real loss was in four figures.

I wanted it to be the £15,000 for obvious reasons, but the blue would have been cool to have in the box as well, technical draw am I right?

£12k taken, £24k offer - yup, technical draw!

I remember the Jim - John M week with two techical draws.

There has only been four right? John M, Jim, Bearded Brian and someone else...

ITA. I'm getting literally sick of people quitting at the 3rd offer. I see it, in most circumstances, as someone just joined a game, and saying "I don't want to play anymore". In Rita's circumstances, I can understand. It's meant to be a game, and you quit early, whats the point in applying? I honestly expected a lot more from Anne-Marie today

ITA with you as well!!!!

That's exactly what I was thinking. The atmosphere was like she'd won 1p...at best she could only have doubled her money, and even then that's if you believe the stupid proveout offers.

I groan when the players take the third offer these days, not because what they do bothers me at all, but I know I'm going to have to listen to 10 minute of Noel ranting and then come up here and read a bunch of crap about how much of a coward the person is. Why doesn't Noel do the same with people like Theresa, who missed out on even more than Anne-Marie did?

*Theresa turns down £21,000*
Noel: You know, turning down offers so close to the mean is very very rarely the right thing to do. It is so rare for that to be the right decision...have you just made a huge mistake?
*£75k goes*
Noel: NO! Well, that's it, the next offer's going down now anyway. Even if two blues go, it won't be enough. You made a mistake, Theresa. You missed out on a huge opportunity.
*£100k goes*
Noel: Unbelievable! That was a completely disastrous decision! You made a huge mistake, Theresa...you've squandered TWENTY ONE thousand pounds!!!

For some reason that sounds utterly bizarre, yet it's more or less the same as what he was doing today...

As for the people on here, I've said this so many times that I'm thinking of incorporating it into a signature, but it strikes me as completely irrational to get so irate about someone making a decision to do with their own money that isn't the same as what you personally would have done. If you can't cope with people making decisions with which you don't agree, then stop watching a show that is all about different people making different decisions. Go down to a betting shop or a casino and watch people there, if that's what turns you on. But if you can't handle people acting differently to how you would have then I don't think DOND is the show for you.

I've ranted for far too long, so in summary: *beep* off Noel, and well done Anne-Marie!

i hate anne-marie. I HATE anyone who is stupid enough to deal at 11-box. Its as if the producers have told the players from now on to always deal, and either at 11-box or at 8-box. Goddamn the producers.