Deal or No Deal - March 20, 2006

Did Horston take the $164,000 that was offered to him last week? "No Deal," Horston told Howie. After opening up a few more cases the banker offered Horston $221,000. Horston thought about it for a moment and then he took the deal. Of course the case Horston was holding had to be opened to see if he had made a good deal. Howie opened Horston's case, and the case revealed $400,000. Horston and his wife were still happy with the $221,000. Hey, $221,000 will still bring a nice honeymoon for him and his wife, and they'll still have quite a bit left over for other things.

Playing next was Bret Sloan, a cowboy from Texas. Bret's gut feeling told him to pick case number 17. Right from the start, Bret was knocking all the low numbers off the board, and the odds of him holding the million dollar case were going up. Supporting Bret was his mother, brother and uncle. And later in the show Howie surprised him with his wife - Bret thought she was at home with their children.

When Bret called out for case number 13 to be revealed everyone waited with anticipation to see if the case number 13 continued its unlucky streak. It seemed that every time a contestant had case number 13 revealed it would show a rather large amount which was bad for the contestant. This time around the case showed $500 and everyone exhaled in relief.

Bret continued to play, and I got to admit, I was glued to my seat. Bret played a very exciting game. The cases Bret kept opening continued to knock out low numbers - increasing his odds of holding the million dollar case. I was cheering for Bret, hoping he would be the first contestant to win the million dollars. However, Bret's luck ran out when he revealed the million dollar case, and that caused his last offer of $199,000 to drop to $109,000. $109,000 was still a lot of money, and he wondered if he should take the deal. Bret turned to his wife for her opinion, and she said "deal." Bret took his wife's advice and pushed the button. If Bret had of kept playing he would have won $500,000, but I think opening the million dollar case scared him, and to be on the safe side he took the deal that was offered to him.

My husband posed an interesting question…he asked me, "if you were down to two numbers left on the board, the penny and the one million, and the banker offered you $500,000, would you take the deal?" After thinking about it a moment, I answered him by saying I would take the deal, but to be honest, I still wonder what I would really do. How about you? Think about it for a moment, and post your comment to let me know what you would do - would you take the deal, or would you continue to play and see if you're holding the million dollar case or the penny case?