Deal or No Deal (USA)/Episode 318/319

Episode 318/319
Season 3, Episode 19
Airdate	December 10, 2007
← 3x18 Episode 322	3x20 → Episode 320
Deal or No Deal (USA) — Season Three

This article about an episode needs to be expanded with more information. Please help out by editing it.

Episode 318/319 is the nineteenth episode of the third season of Deal or No Deal, and the one hundred twenty-seventh episode overall.

Cast:

Gameplay

• This episode, the first of three in "What's the Deal? Week", introduced a new method of play: "Winner Takes All". Without knowing the results of the other contestants' games, 3 players would play their own, otherwise completely regular, games, and the biggest dealer would win everything won that night.

The show began with Eric Serpico, whose game started out promising, but the $500,000 and $1 million prizes both disappeared in round 2. After round 4, only the $300,000 was left among the Super Seven. Spurred on by "The Voice of Boxing", Sugar Ray Leonard, and the fact that he would have to beat two other contestants, Eric, in an eerily similar game to the previous night, ran the board all the way down to the top two cases remaining: $50,000 and $300,000. This time, the banker skewed his offer lower: $146,000. Serpico, without much thought, refused the final offer and the offer to switch cases. Without the Winner Take All, he would have probably taken the suggestion of quitting at the $101,000 offer (with three cases left), or even taken the $146,000 offer, but like Demetres only the previous night, he ended up with the lesser amount.

The second player, Shalanda London, had similar bad luck at the beginning of the game, but her board after Round 4 was much stronger: $10,000, $75,000, $100,000, and $300,000 were all available. Unfortunately, the round began with the $300K. The game went back and forth with small amounts and then big ones to leave Shalanda with no chance: her board was $200 and $10,000. She scored the $10,000 case, but unknown to her, Eric had beaten this score.

The final player, David Vinson, removed the top prize in round 1, but the $100,000, $400,000, $500,000, and $750,000 survived up until the fourth round, when $500,000 fell out of the game. However, the offer still went up: to $106,000, which was the third consecutive offer that, if taken, would win David the game. Unfortunately, David did not know he had won, and played on only to remove the $750,000 case. He managed only one offer over $50,000 before the $400,000 case also dropped out of the game. At three cases, David had a curious board: $1, $50,000, and $100,000. The banker made his second attempt to crash David with a very low offer: $35,000. It worked again: David removed the $100,000 case, and ended up leaving with the dollar.

Eric Serpico, therefore, took home $60,001, and as for the other two....well, who can say they won $0 on Deal or No Deal?