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Quarter Final time in the darts. Three I like all with PP are:
 
Under @ 5/6 Total 180's(16.5) Raymond van Barneveld v Phil Taylor
Taylor has hit 12 180's so far in his 3 matches. Barney has hit 13. They average 8.5 total 180's between them so unders seems a good call.
 
Any Checkout of 160 or greater @ 10/3
Michael van Gerwen v Daryl Gurney
This would have come up in 50% of their matches so far and it's also a longer format.
 
No @ evens  Both to Throw 7 or more 180s  James Wade v Peter Wright
Wright has managed only 6 180's in his 3 games compared to Wade's 12. Between them, they have thrown 5, 7, and 6 in the tournament so far.
 
 

Webster hit 8 180's again to win the bet.
Have layed my Peter Wright outright bet for a free bet , have just over 5/1 on him reaching the final and 3/1 to win it. Haven't got time to look at any of the quarter finals at the moment.

Thanks Sir Puntalot, Barney wins 4-3 but unfortunately no high checkout as Lewis misses a bull and a double for it.
Just one bet for today in the Mvg v Darren Webster match. Mvg was given a scare in the previous round in a brilliant match v Cristo Reyes and will be hoping to have a quicker match tonight.
Have to give Darren Webster credit as he was brilliant in beating Whitlock 4-0 with nearly a 105 average , he will have to play like that again to give MVG trouble tonight. whether he can is another question.
Webster has never been known as a 180 hitter but has managed 8 in both his 2 matches so far 16 in total in 44 legs. The bookies have given him a low total to beat tonight of over 2.5 and 3.5 so Webster should every chance of beating these totals even if Mvg wins easily.
1.25pts Darren Webster over 2.5 180 at 4/7 sky bet
1.25pts Darren Webster over 3.5 180 at 20/21 boyles

Ian White finishes with a 92.6 average for the bet to come home.
Got 3 more bets over the 27 and 28. First up is the Mensur Sulijovic v Mark Webster match. I have already highlighted the fact that Mensur is not a big 180 hitter, he hit 2 in the first round with him going for treble 19 a number of times with the 3 dart when on a max.
Webster won his first round match with brilliant finishing which you have to hand it too him as he is struggling letting go with his darts and his scoring was nothing to write home about. He never hit a 140 or over to the 3 set and managed 1 180. So I am going low on maxes at the 9.5 quoted.
2 bet is in the Phil Taylor v Kevin Painter match , these 2 have plenty of history down the years. Painter done enough to win his first round match but if he plays similar then he will be sent home losing 4-0. Indeed even if he plays better its hard to see him winning more than a set .
My bet for this match is to go low on the highest checkout at 132.5 as Taylor is the most pragmatic player in Darts he won't go for a bull finish not in less he has too. Indeed in the last 5 years in the 2 and 3 rounds where the matches are first to 4 sets 6 of Taylors 8 matches have gone under this mark.
3 bet is in the Jelle Klassen v Brendan Dolan match. Jelle is one the heaviest scorers in Darts on form indeed on tv including last years World champs Jelle has hit 100 maxes in 273 legs. He is the kind of player that can hit everything for a set but next set is the opposite which is his downfall.
Dolan played well in his first round match too , but with him it is more steady scoring with good finishing. This year on tv he has hit 12 maxes in 85 legs.
Jelle hit 6 in his first match I see no reason why he can't beat that figure as I expect Dolan to give him a good match and also on the 180 handicap every chance if Jelle has his scoring boots on he smash the -3.5 h/c that he is giving Dolan.
2.5 pts on Mensur Sulijovic v Mark Webster under 9.5 180's at 4/5 Skybet
2.5 pts on Phil Taylor v Kevin Painter under 133 checkout Sportingbet at 17/20
1.5pts on Jelle Klassen to hit over 6.5 180's at 10/11 various
1pt on Jelle Klassen to win -3.5 180 handicap at 7/5 PP
And I wish everyone a very happy Christmas.

Wilson must have believed after his previous big wins the job was done because he started the match abysmally going 5-0 down but at least won 2 frames with the highest break of the match 90 before he lost.

Thanks Sir Puntalot and WiseManRav.
Meulenkamp won the 180's bet 3-2 in a scrappy match .

Got a bet for tomorrow night in the Sulijovic v Meulenkamp match.
Mensur probably got one of the weirdest actions in World Darts but boy can he play Darts and he has continually improved to be in the top 8 in the World, no one likes playing him and I would be surprised if he doesn't win this match but area of the match I don't think he will win is on the 180's , he rarely hits that many sometimes he goes down to t19 on the third dart or even the bull.
Since the World Matchplay I make it that Sulijovic has hit 52 maxes in 278 legs an average of 1 180 in 5.35 legs in tournament play that I can get stats for. Ron Meulenkamp on the other hand has hit 25 in 79 legs . Meulenkamp had a decent run in the recent Players champs beating Gary Anderson in it so he will looking to give Sulijovic a decent match , he hit 10 maxes in that in 34 legs.
2.5 pts Ron Meulenkamp to hit most 180's at 20/23 Boyles

Thanks Sir Puntalot.
Have one bet for tomorrows action in the match between former Bdo World champion Mark Webster v Joe Murnan.
Its fair to say Mark Webster hasn't fulfilled his promise since when he won his world title and his first few years on the PDC circuit. But ever since his year in the Premier league he hasn't been the same player. You would have expected him to be a top 16 player year on year though he lies in 25 place. Webster best effort this year has been reaching the quarter final in the UK open but otherwise its been nothing special.
But in saying all this Webster has a decent record in the World champs, has reached 2 semi/finals, a quarters and last 16 last year and only lost once in the first round to former world champ Ritchie Burnett. He will more than likely average somewhere between 90 to 95.
Murnan has done ok on the floor tournaments but as far as I can make out has only won 1 match on TV and that was in last years world champs in low quality match v Andy Hamilton apart from that he has lost his others only once averaging in the 90's. In the recent players championship finals where his match was on the non TV board he lost 6-0 averaging 78.
Have to expect that Mark Webster should have a bit too much for Murnan.
2.5pts on Mark Webster to beat Joe Murnan at 8/11 PP.

Webster wins 3-0 and Gurney 3-1 do to the business but the White match was frustrating he wins 3-0 but you couldn't forsee Simm hitting 4 maxes after watching his first match for there to be cruelly 6 in the match and because White was under more pressure he had to take out a 130 to win a set.

Thanks Sir Puntalot.
Have one bet for tomorrows action in the match between former Bdo World champion Mark Webster v Joe Murnan.
Its fair to say Mark Webster hasn't fulfilled his promise since when he won his world title and his first few years on the PDC circuit. But ever since his year in the Premier league he hasn't been the same player. You would have expected him to be a top 16 player year on year though he lies in 25 place. Webster best effort this year has been reaching the quarter final in the UK open but otherwise its been nothing special.
But in saying all this Webster has a decent record in the World champs, has reached 2 semi/finals, a quarters and last 16 last year and only lost once in the first round to former world champ Ritchie Burnett. He will more than likely average somewhere between 90 to 95.
Murnan has done ok on the floor tournaments but as far as I can make out has only won 1 match on TV and that was in last years world champs in low quality match v Andy Hamilton apart from that he has lost his others only once averaging in the 90's. In the recent players championship finals where his match was on the non TV board he lost 6-0 averaging 78.
Have to expect that Mark Webster should have a bit too much for Murnan.
2.5pts on Mark Webster to beat Joe Murnan at 8/11 PP.

Thanks Sir Puntalot.
Have one bet for tomorrows action in the match between former Bdo World champion Mark Webster v Joe Murnan.
Its fair to say Mark Webster hasn't fulfilled his promise since when he won his world title and his first few years on the PDC circuit. But ever since his year in the Premier league he hasn't been the same player. You would have expected him to be a top 16 player year on year though he lies in 25 place. Webster best effort this year has been reaching the quarter final in the UK open but otherwise its been nothing special.
But in saying all this Webster has a decent record in the World champs, has reached 2 semi/finals, a quarters and last 16 last year and only lost once in the first round to former world champ Ritchie Burnett. He will more than likely average somewhere between 90 to 95.
Murnan has done ok on the floor tournaments but as far as I can make out has only won 1 match on TV and that was in last years world champs in low quality match v Andy Hamilton apart from that he has lost his others only once averaging in the 90's. In the recent players championship finals where his match was on the non TV board he lost 6-0 averaging 78.
Have to expect that Mark Webster should have a bit too much for Murnan.
2.5pts on Mark Webster to beat Joe Murnan at 8/11 PP.

The big one starts on Thursday with loads of Darts action over the festive period to feast on.
I already posted during the players championship thread my 1 outright bet and that was Peter Wright 16/1 each way and his odds have duly shortened since to 12/1. Basically the last couple of months Wright has been the 2 best player in the world allied to on paper easier half of the draw you would expect either himself or Anderson as the players to come from that side of the draw with Wade and Chisnall as outside threats. The each way part 8/1 is what im really looking at as it is hard to see MVG being beaten this year so will look to lay the 16/1 win part at some stage.
My bet for the opening night is Kevin Painter to beat Jamie Caven, to be honest both players have had poor seasons. Cavan has a poor record on tv especially this year losing his 4 matches on tv whilst Painter is very much a player that plays better on the bigger stage and has a decent World Champs record down the years where he saves his best Darts for. Painter played in the recent players championship losing to Dave Chisnall on the box but it was a good quality match and Painter showed enough to me that he will be ready for the Worlds.
1.25 pts each way at 16/1 on Peter Wright all ready advised
2.5 pts on Kevin Painter v Jamie Caven 1.79 on Betfair

Frustrating week really one step forward then one step back.
Van Gerwen wins 16-8 to bring the leg handicap home but loses by 1 on the 180's winning 6-2. Whether its Wadey that drags his opponent down but MVG hit 17 maxes in the s/f but never hit his stride in the final but was still good enough to win easily..

The UK snooker championship tomorrow though 1 round will not be shown on TV , that starts from the last 64 starting Saturday.
There is 3 players to me that have been the players of this season far and that is Mark Selby, John Higgins and Judd Trump. Of course there is a number of other players that could take home the title O'Sullivan, Robertson, Ding, Murphy, Bingham to name but a few .
As Selby and Higgins are the same quarter I am going for Judd Trump. Trump won the European open beating O'Sullivan in a terrific final and almost followed it with back to back titles but ran out of steam in the British open final. I have seen an extra maturity with Trumps play this year and had him ear marked for this and he is obviously giving extra attention as he pulled out of Northern Ireland Open to give extra preparation for the UK. What helps too is that he has a kind draw. Marco Fu is the next highest rank player in his 16 man part of the draw and he has had a poor season so far. On paper Trump is due to meet Ding in the quarters if it follows the rankings which of course is not always the case. I be disappointed if Trump doesn't make the quarters at least but wouldn't surprise me if there is another Trump trying to hog the headlines come 4 December.
Also have one first bet and that is Daniel Wells to beat Ian Burns. Wells has had a decent season winning 10 of his 18 match so far reaching the last 16 and 32 of a couple of tournaments beating some good players on his way namely Mark Allen and Kyren Wilson whilst Ian Burns has struggled winning just 5 of his 14 matches and hasn't gone any further than the last 64 of any of his 8 tournaments this year.  
1 pt on Judd Trump at 8/1 various
1.5 pt on Judd Trump winning the 2 quarter at 2/1 various
2.5 pts Daniel Wells to beat Ian Burns 10/11 WH

Not the greatest of days as only 3 180's all by Whitlock as Barney doesn't turn up.
Backing Chisnall at 10/11 to beat Lewis.
Chisnall was outstanding last night averaging 112, he has had the evil eye of Lewis in this World series beating him 3 times.
He can make it 4 times today.

Very little Darts talk for awhile in here , see if I can add a bit.
Have backed Jelle Klassen at 8/11 to beat Kim Huybrechts tomorrow .
Klassen has been in good form recently which he showed last week at the Euro's before Mvg took care of him like he did with everyone else.
Huybrechts has had a dip in form the last month or so and would have been very disappointed to lose last week in his native Belgium in the first round.
Klassen has a 4-0 h2h .
You can get just slightly over 1.75 on Klassen if you have a spreadex account and do it on the spreads win index.