Darts: PDC World Championships

The world championships start next week. I know not many of you are darts fans but what are people's thoughts?

Phil Taylor is 8/15 and is the favourite but with the year he's having I think this will be a very entertaining year. The likes of Raymond van Barneveld, James Wade, Mervyn King and Simon Whitlock all stand a good chance.

Another few players who could suprise people and do really well are Gary Anderson, Co Stompe, Adrian Lewis and the one I like watching, Mark Webster.

BTW Raymond van Barneveld is 12/1 to win. I'll be putting £10 on him.

12/1!?

Where???

He having a bad run or summit?

Saying that I fancy Adrian Lewis to tank em all this year.

Ooft, 14/1 for Barney at Stan James....

12/1 at william hills.

Hasnt had the best year but over the past few months he has started to enjoy darts, and with Taylor going the other way..

Definatly worth a tenner imo

with wade not in the best of form and barneys confidence being low, id fancy an each way bet on someone like merv to come out of that half and make the final

First shock of the tournement Steve Beaton loses to qualifier Mark Hylton (3-2 in sets). Beaton has had a decent year this year Hylton onlly being darts full time for around 6 months.

Second shock of the tournement - Co Stompe beaton by Steve Wright 3-1. Not the most exciting games tbh.

Also, Colin Lloyd may find himself in trouble. He was hitting poor darts, scored a 45. He went to collect his darts and punched the board! He won the atch 3 sets to 2 (deciding set went to tie break)

Last night Phil Taylor won 3-0, but was way below par. If he played someone half decent he would of went out.

Mark Webster also won 3-0, dropping 2 legs in the whole game.

No shocks in day 3 - but possibly the worst game of darts ever shown on TV was tonight. Andy Hamilton defeated Dennis Smith 3-0. Terrible game of darts. issed doubles, sall scores, it had the lot.

Mark Dudbridge won his 1st gae on TV for a year against Alex Roy. Simon Whitlcok and Gary Anderson eased through to the second round with 3-0 victories.

I know people aren't too intrested in this but here is what i think will happen in this years tournement (quite a long post)

Round 1:
Phil Taylor (1) v Mawson/Gionzon
John Part (32) v Laursen/Krcmar
Paul Nicholson (16) v Steve Farmer
Co Stompe (17) v Peter Wright
Ronnie Baxter (8) v Scholten/Viinikka
Mark Webster (25) v Steve Maish
Colin Lloyd (9) v Andree Welge
Steve Beaton (24) v Mark Hylton
Adrian Lewis (5) v Tony Eccles
Mark Dudbridge (28) v Alex Roy
Andy Hamilton (12) v Dennis Smith
Robert Thornton (21) v Nigel Heydon
Simon Whitlock (4) v Steve Evans
Denis Ovens (29) v Artut/MacKenzie
Wayne Jones (13) v Rob Modra
Vincent van der Voort (20 v Mansell/Ridd
James Wade (2) v Antonio Alcinas
Michael van Gerwen (31) v Mensur Suljovic
Wes Newton (15) v Darin Young
Kevin Painter (18) v Brendan Dolan
Terry Jenkins (7) v Joe Cullen
Jelle Klaasen (26) v Steve Brown
Mark Walsh (10) v Justin Pipe
Alan Tabern (23) v Richie Burnett
Mervyn King (6) v Caris/Burger
Andy Smith (27) v Shane Tichowitsch
Gary Anderson (11) v Padgett/Hashimoto
Dennis Priestley (22) v Bernd Roith
Raymond van Barneveld (3) v Steve Hine
Barrie Bates (30) v Kevin McDine
Colin Osborne (14) v Chris Thompson
Jamie Caven (19) v Petersen/Madhoo

Round 2:
Phil Taylor v John Part
Paul Nicholson v Peter Wright
Ronnie Baxter v Mark Webster
Colin Lloyd v Mark Hylton
Adrian Lewis v Mark Dudbridge
Andy Hamilton v Robert Thornton
Simon Whitlock v Denis Ovens
Wayne Jones v Vincent van der Voort
James Wade v Mensir Suljovic
Wes Newton v Kevin Painter
Terry Jenkins v Jelle Klaasen
Mark Walsh v Ritchie Burnett
Mervyn King v Andy Smith
Gary Anderson v Dennis Priestley
Raymond van Barneveld v Kevin McDine

Round 3:
Phil Taylor v Paul Nicholson
Mark Webster v Colin Lloyd
Adrian Lewis v Robert Thornton
Simon Whitlock v Wayne Jones
James Wade v Wes Newton
Jelle Klaasen v Mark Walsh
Mervyn King v Gary Anderson
Raymond van Barneveld v Jamie Caven

Quarter Finals:
Phil Taylor v Mark Webster
Adrian Lewis v Simon Whitlock
James Wade v Jelle Klaasen
Mervyn King v Raymond van Barneveld

Semi Finals:
Mark Webster v Adrian Lewis
James Wade v Raymond van Barneveld

FINAL:
Mark Webster v Raymond van Barneveld

Winner: Raymond van Barneveld

Day 3: Shock of the day came from qualiier Pers Laursen convincenly beating 3 time world champion 3-0. John Part was ill and suffering from an ear infection.

Laursen now faces Phil Taylor in the 2nd round. Taylor should win this. I think him coming second in the Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday will give him a huge boost.

Day 4: No shocks but James Wade looks intrested this time round as he had a 3-0 victory also - dropping 2 legs in the whole match

I have been watching as usual and have even put on a flutter with two players. I reckon Mark Webster could go a long way and I put a tenner on him.

Also put a fiver on Whitlock to win.

Would have gone with Barney since hes my favourite but I had better odds on these two,.

anderson averaged over 108 in his win over the pieman and is now 2nd favourite at around 4/1 to win

and if whitlock wins tonight against van der voort, him against lewis could be the match of the competition

The way Van Der Voort is playing, him against Lewis could be match of the tournement. It's looking like a carcking qurter final!

id be surprised if these 4 semi finalists dont all get a wildcard for the premier league this year

I was thinking that myself Pod.

Taylor
Barney
Wade
Whitlock
Lewis
Anderson
Webster
Jenkins

Also, Anderson and Lewis have been the best two players in the tournement so it should be a cracking final.

Just found out that Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis are in the Premier League along with Phil Taylor and James Wade. So Barney and Whitlock need a wildcard place, which I think they will, along with Mark Webster and one other guy.

Terry Jenkins seems the obvious choice but I think Vincent van der Voort is in with a shout.

Discopants wrote:

12/1!?

Where???

He having a bad run or summit?

Saying that I fancy Adrian Lewis to tank em all this year.

Oops...

take it you didn't have a flutter then? He was around 25/1 at the time of your post i believe?

i was slightly disappointed that jenks got a wildcard, hes not gonna be a guy that will set the premier league alive, his route to the semis was by the easiest, and even though im not a fan of the crowds at times, you do need someone like nicholson or king who can fulfill the pantomime villain role