The Banker calls..

Noel taunts The Banker and then stops in fear of damaging The Offer.

The Banker goes in with a dig to box 23.. But doesn't want Jean opening Box 18 to find 10 and doubling to £20,000.

BANKER'S OFFER

£5,000

who would have thought that

She's dealing...

JUST below average, and 16 Deal Lights come on.

The wingers advise deals, and Jacina says that's a lot of cups of tea!

Vicky pleads Jean to Deal.

Jean talks about maybe taking £5,000 to box 23..

Jean has been talking about Box 18 all week, and that it could be lucky for her.

Her partner David says it's up to her.

She's asked the question and says..

DEAL!

Jean DEALS for £5,000

Yup! Told ya!

Extremely very brave to deal box 23?

Noel opens Jeans Box..

Box 18-

£10,000

Jean had £10,000 all along!

Natalie with 10-

50p

Over to box 23;

£10,000
£15,000
£5,000
£2,500
NOTHING

Those are Jean's Box 23 options..

Noel asks jean the Box 23 question and jean says..

NO DEAL.

She keeps her £5,000 winnings.

Noel opens Box 23 to reveal..

HALF

Jean would have been halved to £2,500.

two stories in today's game.

One story, the worst ever start.

The other, A remarkable lady who has found love and happiness in later life.

Jean says she needs to pay some rent as she's a bit behind, but David didn't know! We don't know if he heard or not as he has hearing issues!

Jean wins £5,000, and Noel asks us to join him next time, on the incredible Deal or No Deal.

An EXCELLENT result given the first round.

I know some people will say well Victory to the Banker as Jean could of have double what she won if gone for the box but come on I mean after that start to get £5000 that's a victory in itself well done Jean

Oh my god... incredible start. Reminds me of Australia's Josh Sharp - of course, he did quite a bit worse joining the 50c club!

Check your facts again: he actually won $10.

However, Josh did get to play again during "Banker's Rematch" week and won $12,900.

He was also offered 10c which is under the lowest value on the board!

Ha. Wow.

Even the wildly improbable worst possible opening round has gone by without hysteria, relatively speaking. If this happened in June 2006 it'd have not left anyone's lips or forefront of the mind for about three months.

Shame this happened at a time slot when not many are able to watch. If this happened in 2006 we'd have way more than 3 pages on this thread!

It'd have been 5 pages just from the 50+ regular posters of the day going ''OMG WOWOWOWOW'' with maybe just KP reclining in his chair with an understated ''Ha, once every 100 years, that''.

I'm watching the opening round now, the first bit of DOND I've seen for a long time. It's all a bit different, isn't it? No names flashing up on the board for one thing. ''It's YOU, Jean, plonk yourself over here''.

Well when Ottis took the Power 5 in consecutive boxes back in September 2006, his game thread was only 5 pages long:

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