Here's the first of the three shows I promised you all.

Wakey, SrWilson, and daniel123 will each play one game of Deal or No Deal. All three games were set up using my board game; my brother sealing up the boxes, and handing them all back on the board - he is the only person who knows what is where.

I decided to adopt the role of the Banker; my aim being to take the players just as seriously as any other contestant, but at the same time trying to make them break - which you will see in each of the games.


Wakey chose box 18.

Round 1:

4 - £5 - "Good job I didn't choose that!"

19 - £75,000 - "Ooo!"

8 - 1p - "Yay!"

7 - £750 - "OK."

16 - £5,000 - "K."


Banker's offer: £12,000

Stats (17 boxes left:)
Offer: £12,000
Average: £28,524.21


10p
50p
£1

£10
£50
£100
£250
£500

£1,000
£3,000

£10,000
£15,000
£20,000
£35,000
£50,000

£100,000
£250,000


Wakey says No Deal.


Round 2:

9 - £35,000

12 - £100,000

14 - £50,000


Terrible round...

Banker's offer: £1,200

Stats (14 boxes left:)
Offer: £1,200
Average: £21,422.26


10p
50p
£1

£10
£50
£100
£250
£500

£1,000
£3,000

£10,000
£15,000
£20,000




£250,000


Wakey says No Deal.


Round 3:

13 - £250

11 - £1,000

22 - £500


A better round.

Banker's offer: £8,500

Stats (11 boxes left:)
Offer: £8,500
Average: £27,105.60


10p
50p
£1

£10
£50
£100




£3,000

£10,000
£15,000
£20,000




£250,000


Wakey says No Deal.


Round 4:

1 - £100

3 - £50

10 - £10


The start of what could be a good comeback.

Banker's offer: £17,000

Stats (8 boxes left:)
Offer: £17,000
Average: £37,250.20


10p
50p
£1








£3,000

£10,000
£15,000
£20,000




£250,000


Wakey says "Good offer, but with £250,000 there and still potential for an all red final five, No Deal."


Round 5:

2 - 50p - 5 straight blues

6 - 10p - now SIX straight blues; is he actually about to get that all-red Final Five?

21 - £15,000 - "Acceptable."


Near enough perfect round.

Now here's where if I was the Banker, I would make a really tempting offer for both his bravery, and also to test his so-called defiant No Deal stance.

Banker's offer: £50,000

Stats (5 boxes left:)
Offer: £50,000
Average: £56,600.20

£1
£3,000
£10,000

£20,000
£250,000


Wakey said that there was no way the offer would be anywhere near that high, and expected about £30,000. I mentioned Daz's game and how he earned an offer of £45,000 but he dismissed my comments by reminding me that Daz had a fallback of £50,000.

However, he said Deal. He justified his decision by saying that if the offer was £5,000 lower, he would have played on.

WAHEY!!! But did I, as the Banker, pay too much for a lower value box? Or did I make probably one of the biggest ever risks and it paid off?


Round 6:

17 - £1

20 - £3,000 - have I actually stopped the unstoppable?!?!?!?!?

15 - £20,000 - OH MY WORD!


Wakey wasn't very happy ("Oh fat f***ing hell!"); I was creasing with laughter!!!

I first teased him that I would have STUCK at £50,000 - but eventually revealed what the hypothetical offer would have really been.

Banker's offer: £95,000

Stats (2 boxes left:)
Offer: £95,000
Average: £130,000



£10,000


£250,000

He said he would have played on.

And in his box, box 18, was...

£10,000!!! DANG!!!

Box 5 contained the £250,000.

So I don't need no statsman to sum up that one: a TPW! He beat the Banker, but could have won a lot more if he had the nerve to call the Banker's bluff.

No he didn't.

I know he didn't - it was what he said to me

Daz's final five were 1p/£1/£500/£15,000/£250,000 - I knew that and that's why I used it as an example with the offer I made.

Comedy Moment GOLD!!!

Superb!

I'd have taken the £17k and dismissed the proveout offers as a load of *beep*, and laughed a bit at the £10k being in the box.

The £95k would actually have been the only one of the last three I'm not certain I'd have taken... oh, actually I *am* certain I'd take it, but... I think if you halved all the amounts in question, I'm still Dealing the five-box £25k on 50p/£1,500/£5k/£10k/£125k (:D), but on £5k/£125k and an offer of £47,500 I'm seriously considering going on!

Hehe!

SrWilson's game I am uploading now; shall we say the offers are a little more realistic!!