Deal or No Deal (USA)/Episode 354

Episode 342
Season 3, Episode 48
Airdate	March 24, 2008
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Episode 354 is the forty-eighth episode of the third season of Deal or No Deal, and the one hundred fifty-sixth episode overall.

Cast:

Gameplay

• Mary Beth Holtzheimer played one of the series' most exciting games yet, having two mega-sized prizes among the final three cases.
• Holtzheimer broke the game down to $25, $500,000 and $1 million. After rejecting a $404,000 offer, the audience was whipped into a frenzy as she selected case 21 (in anticipation of it possibly being the $25 case). Alas, it held the $500,000 ... meaning she had either $25 or $1 million.
• At this point, the offer dropped to the lowest ever seen in this situation, in or out of active play: $341,000. Annie Duke, her poker idol, was watching her on. some supporters wanted her to take the plunge, but her fiance (who billed himself as "her more practical side") wanted her to leave with the money. Marybeth then issued him an ultimatum: "Listen to me...I KNOW I HAVE THE MILLION!" After seven years of being together, you'd think that he would trust her and leave it at that. But, he continued to talk her out of it, and despite having the best chance of anyone ever at winning the million with the least risk and with the most confidence, she bailed out of the game at the last second because she "loved her fiance more than anything in the world". Unfortunately, that seems to be a bad omen considering the result: Indeed, the million dollars was in Marybeth's case, and the DonD community was left in dismay at this blatant miscarriage of logic. She wants to play POKER? She can't even do probability!
• At one point, she rejected a deal that had her playing poker with professional gambler Annie Duke.

Notes

• Logically, a person who loves her fiance enough to give up her dream of winning the million would not be saying that she knows she has it even when he is urging her to take the deal.

Trivia

The Show

• The banker is more unpopular than ever because he is thus able to get even the most daring contestant ever seen on the show out for a very small sum simply because of the contestant's real life. Contestants also take flak for taking these offers.

• But, by far, the supporters have taken the worst heat. The average supporter:

• • is far more conservative than the contestant
  • is listened to by the contestant much more often than they would listen to the contestant
  • almost impossible to go against
  • occasionally adding a veiled or even direct threat to their suggestion
  • completely ignores any instinct that the contestant has about their case, often cheating a contestant out of a certain million
  • manages to get the contestant out far before disaster strikes, while the contestant would have gone to the brink on their own.