Is This All for Not?

Michael's not exactly rolling in the dough. Is he about to be the sucker? Was this just an expensive lard? But it can't though, right? Nothing's changed. Why would they spend all the money to update the board? It's just the timing difference between sitting on a couch with a VCR and playing for real. Michael resets. He answers the second round question correct and earns himself some more spins. The whole plan was about constantly avoiding the whammies.