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Big names seemed to dominate the early tournaments last year too. First 3 finals last season were Littler Searle Anderson Searle Anderson Searle

Early picks today, all 4 places DVD 50/1 Gurney 80/1 Scutt 100/1 All 4 places. Will add in a few more once the draw is out at 11.

Really frustrating one there today. Springer missing 10 match darts in the top half which was absolutely wide open. Wessel throwing away a lead v Dobey, who then went on to beat Rydz in the semi. 55/1 place for a marginal profit, could have been so so so much better.

Now Wessel has chucked this away v Dobey! Rydz my last man standing.

Do we know how many missed doubles that was for the match? I thought it was about 11?

Springer you absolute bottle job.

Throwing a few darts today so to speak: Wessel 33/1 Menzies 55/1 Rydz 55/1 Cullen 66/1 Springer 150/1 Barry 150/1 Veenstra 175/1 Zonneveld 225/1 All 4 places

Gilding a late Withdrawal, along with Dimi and Jim Williams.

With no Littler, Humphries and Anderson it's a great chance to get a winner this week. I'll dive in once the draw is out. Just noticed that Priced Up are also paying 4 places, so not just Star Sports in that regard now. Can't say I've heard of them before however.

Was 12/1 yesterday after Humphries pulled out.

Ipswich please

The Smith Doets 4 100+ one

That 7/2 is 6/1 on Bet365 by the way.

Interesting stat I stumbled upon this morning. Littler has the same number of 100+ averages in World Championship matches as Gerwyn Price. Littlers played 7 WC matches, this will be Price's 11th Worlds.

Wade getting the time off over Xmas that he wanted to spend with the kids afterall. Hasn't won a match at Ally Pally since Jan 1st 2022

Just starting to have a good dive into this now. As far as Outright bets go, I've had a 3PT win bet on Humphries at 3/1 (Plus the 25% winnings boost from Bet365). I just think the 2 Lukes play each other in the semi, and the winner comes from that. I'd mentioned Anderson at 25/1 some weeks ago but stupidly didn't back it immediately and that price has now crumbled. I still think that the 9/2 available for him to reach the final is a nice enough price given his recent form and the lob-sidedness of the draw! Wessel to win Q3 at 11/2 will be seeing some of my money too. Betfair/Paddy Power have markets for a player to reach the QF (To win their 1/8th of the draw), think theres value to be found in those markets. After a very brief scan, the following jump out: GVV - 3/1 Dobey - 9/4 Nijjman - 11/4 Section 8 of the draw looks absolutely wide open and smacks of a big priced winner to me. Chizzy & Dimi lead the market, but Dimi has been sketchy recently and Chizzy is Chizzy. Schindler 4/1 and Clemens 5/1 are next in that market. William O'Connor at 14/1 may just be the value play there.

Arsenal

Bournemouth please

Chelsea please

Brentford for me please. God I'm awful at this 😅

Yeah they would meet in a semi assuming they both get there. As such my staking plan will focus mainly on the other side of the draw. There's great potential for one of the Pro Tour guys to have a deep run if they fall into that bottom half, I'll be looking up the prices of people like Nijmann, Wattimena etc if they do end up in the "Luke-less" side of the draw.

Edhouse at odds against appeals to me, seems to be riding the crest of a wave after his win in the European Championships and was much more impressive than Cross in the group stages. I'd make it 10/11 the pair personally so I'm happy to take the outsider.

Looks like a good chance we're looking at a Littler v Anderson semi. Those 2 over a best of 31 in their current form could be special. Humphries going out opens up that half nicely. Hopefully Wade and Cross can win their games 🤞

Aston Villa please

A lot of negativity on the PDC social media channels about how many big names have missed out on this, I'm all for it personally. Majority of these players have had 23 chances (10 TV tournaments and 13 ET events) to meet the qualifying criteria before having to play in the qualifier for card holders, If they've not been good enough to get in them is the event really any worse off for their absence? Humphries and Littler should have no problems topping their groups. Groups B,D and H all look like minefields, any of the 4 players in each group could finish top or bottom and I don't think you'd me shocked. Will take a look at some group based bets close to the weekend, as well as the outrights.