For those of you who haven't seen/heard of Affari Tuoi or APOAL, the banker there is quite often stingy with offers (along with frequent SWAP only offers).

I think based on current Banker behavior (and probably for most of the last two years), he is going towards Italian/French banker mode, especially with all or nothing (or close to all or nothing) boards near the end, especially at the final 2 stage.

I think the banker switched to the his current mode probably around, oh, I'd say, around this time two years ago, probably (pains me to say it)around 1p Trevor's game.

He's a heck of a lot closer to that than he is to the US Banker, that's for sure.

The US Banker has drifted towards it slowly from his original formula-bound Dutch-style approach, and is probably in the right place now in my opinion.

Our Banker is just all over the place, often wildly erratic (just look at Matty's game, where two ludicrously generous offers were followed by two stupidly low ones before an irrelevant final two comedy offer). Yes, the change from a more 'secure' approach started in Sequencegate in early 2006, which is why we seized upon it as much as we did at Bother's Bar. I don't think he's reached the worst excesses of the European versions too often, but his inconsistency is maddening.