Lakeside World Darts Championship (Jan 1st - Jan 9th)

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.....or the other world darts championship as some will refer to it. Alastair Campbell and Jim Davidson will be playing a leg of darts against Bobby George on Tuesday and Thursday respectively! The student teams of Cambridge and Oxford are having a go against each other on Friday! For the first time, they'll have LIVE SCORING on the official BDO website over here on the web and the BBC are going interactive which means if you've got cable or satellite, you're gonna have to press the red button to watch some of these matches (better than nothing? I dunno, I suppose). ===== FIRST ROUND MATCHES (Best of five sets) (Prices from Stan James) Saturday 1st January: 13:15 Tony Eccles 13/8 versus Tony David 4/9 14:05 Shaun Greatbatch 2/5 versus Mike Veitch 7/4 15:30 Vincent Van Der Voort 9/4 versus Andy Fordham 2/7 18:35 Raymond Barneveld 1/3 versus Gary Anderson 2/1 19:25 Dave Routledge 13/8 versus John Walton 4/9 20:50 Darryl Fitton 1/4 versus Gary Robson 5/2 Sunday 2nd January: 13:45 Martin Adams 1/3 versus Dave Richardson 2/1 14:35 Tony West 2/5 versus Rick Hofstra 7/4 15:25 Jarkko Komula 5/6 versus Robert Wagner 5/6 18:35 Ted Hankey 1/6 versus John Kuczynski 7/2 19:25 John Henderson 5/4 versus Stephen Bunting 4/7 20:45 Martin Atkins 8/13 versus Robert Thornton 6/5 Monday 3rd January: 13:45 Tony O'Shea 2/11 versus Marko Kantele 10/3 14:35 Mervyn King 1/8 versus Wayne Warren 9/2 15:25 Simon Whitlock 2/5 versus Tony Martin 7/4 19:00 Co Stompe 2/7 versus Andre Brantjes 9/4 ===== OUTRIGHT ODDS (Prices from Stan James) Raymond Barneveld 5/2 Mervyn King 7/2 Ted Hankey 9/1 Martin Adams 12/1 Andy Fordham 16/1 Tony West 16/1 Tony O'Shea 16/1 Simon Whitlock 20/1 Tony David 25/1 Darryl Fitton 33/1 Gary Anderson 33/1 John Walton 40/1 Jarkko Komula 40/1 Co Stompe 50/1 Stephen Bunting 50/1 Tony Eccles 66/1 Robert Wagner 66/1 Rick Hofstra 66/1 Dave Richardson 80/1 Martin Atkins 80/1 Marko Kantele 100/1 Gary Robson 100/1 Shaun Greatbatch 125/1 Vincent Van Der Voort 125/1 Mike Veitch 150/1 Dave Routledge 150/1 John Kuczynski 200/1 Andre Brantjes 200/1 Robert Thornton 250/1 Wayne Warren 300/1 John Henderson 300/1 Tony Martin 300/1

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Re: Lakeside World Darts Championship (Jan 1st - Jan 9th) I'll freely admit that I know little about the BDO side of darts (not that I know that much about the PDC to be honest) and it's a pain in the arse to research (how did Colin Monk or Bob Taylor fail to qualify, for example? Colin's in it for the money as you might have seen him at various PDC events so I guess it was because he didn't get enough ranking points. I assume Taylor on the other hand, just had a bad year). Last year, I did my dough as Bob Taylor lost in the 1st round and ruined what was quite a good £100 around 7/2 first-round five-fold over at Sporting Odds. I have no idea about the form of most if not all of these players competing this time around either and looking at the official BDO website is giving ne a headache tring to navigate 'round it. 1st match up in less than10 minutes.... As far as I can work out Tony Eccles is no mug and has a solid 3-dart average around 86+. He appeared to be unlucky last year against John Walton in the 1st round. Tony David can turn it on and off. The odds over at Betfair reflect that and are even skinnier than bookies' odds with Eccles at just over evens and David at around 1/2. Any opinions welcome.