UK Open

[daveg]

The FA Cup of darts gets underway on Friday, I’m having a punt on a few players at longer prices, who are in decent form, and don’t have the distraction of the Premier League to contend with. 

 

1pt e/w Ryan Searle (40/1 General)

Ryan Searle has started the season in good form, reaching the final in two of the four Players Championship events played, winning one of them. He’s averaging nearly 97 in those events and transferred that form to the Baltic Sea Darts Open last weekend, where he averaged 95, 100, 99 and 101 in his four matches, reaching the semi-finals. Searle has never been beyond the sixth round at the UK Open, but he did reach the final of the Players Championship Finals in 2021, played at the same venue as this event, so does have some form at Minehead.

 

1pt e/w Damon Heta (40/1 PaddyPower / William Hill)

Damon Heta hasn’t had the best start to the season in terms of his results, but his performances have been pretty decent, in eight matches on the floor he has averaged over 100 in four of them. Whilst he’s generally done very well in the floor events, his stage performances have sometimes been called into question, but there have been signs that side of his game is on the up. He won the World Cup of Darts alongside Simon Whitlock last summer, and then clinched his maiden title on the European Tour at the back end of the last year. Heta also reached the quarter-finals of this tournament last year, knocking out Michael van Gerwen and Jonny Clayton in the process.

 

1pt e/w Gabriel Clemens (100/1 BetFred)

Just two months ago Gabriel Clemens had the tournament of his life when he reached the last four of the World Championships at Ally Pally. He saw off Gerwyn Price (plus ear defenders) in the quarter-finals before succumbing to eventual champion Michael Smith in the semi-finals. He’s already reached a final on the floor this year, although would have been disappointed with a first round exit last time out at the Baltic Sea Darts Open, albeit with a 99 average. If the German can recapture his World Championship form, 100/1 seems like a big price.

 

(Be a bit careful with the each-way terms, some bookies are offering four places, some just two, in a 158-runner event)

 

Also like to have a fun Acca on the Friday, have selected players who seem to have started the season better than their opponents:

1pt Acca on Knops, Kenny, J Wilson, Kciuk, Veenstra, Brooks, Lennon, Wattimena, A Lewis @ 134/1 (Coral)

[Torque]

Plus ear defenders.... brilliant @daveg

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1pt e/w DVD 28/1 paddypower (4 places, 1/4th)
1pt e/w Searle 40/1 paddypower (4 places, 1/4th)
1pt e/w Dobey 50/1 paddypower (4 places, 1/4th)
1pt e/w R.Smith 66/1 paddypower (4 places, 1/4th)
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0.5pts e/w Rydz  80/1 paddypower (4 places, 1/4th)
0.5pts e/w J.Williams 150/1 paddypower (4 places, 1/4th)
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0.25pts e/w Veenstra 250/1 paddypower (4 places, 1/4th)
0.25pts e/w A.Monk 400/1 willhill (4 places, 1/4th)

[Fader]

after that performance tonight I've had a small punt on Van Den Bergh for this, also. I know I've bet on alot here but it's the one event that tends to be wide open because of the random draws and non-seeding.

1pt e/w Van Den Bergh 28/1 paddypower (4 places, 1/4th)

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Here's my 5-fold for tomorrow. 

2pts 5-fold - 16/1 bet365

P.Ruppreht vs N.Kenny
J.Justicia vs M.Mansell
C.Goffin vs R.Knops
Van Der Velde vs B.Claydon
M.Kleermaker vs S.Lennon

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16 hours ago, Fader said:

Here's my 5-fold for tomorrow. 

2pts 5-fold - 16/1 bet365

P.Ruppreht vs N.Kenny
J.Justicia vs M.Mansell
C.Goffin vs R.Knops
Van Der Velde vs B.Claydon
M.Kleermaker vs S.Lennon

OFCOURSE it's let down by one. Standard. Lennon you absolute pile of....

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I'm not sure the draw was done properly as we see ALOT of the previous draw players, playing eachother.

One big draw is MVG taking on Chisnall in the 4th round. Here is the full draw

full draw here - https://www.flashscore.co.uk/darts/

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7pm
2pts Jansen to beat De Zwaan 5/4 paddypower
3pts Price (-6.5 legs) to beat Banks 5/6 bet365
0.5pts Price to beat Banks 10-0 20/1 bet365

8pm
2.5pts King to beat Barry 4/5 paddypower

9pm
no bet

10pm
2pts Bunting to beat Wright 13/8 paddypower
 

1pt 4-fold - Schindler, King, Bunting and Humphries 13/1 paddypower
0.5pt 5-fold - all the 4 above plus Van Der Voort 25/1 paddypower

[kroni]

1 hour ago, Fader said:

I'm not sure the draw was done properly as we see ALOT of the previous draw players, playing eachother.

 

was gonna same the same thing, never seen a draw like it, it seemed every time one of the top players was drawn out it was followed by another and  a lot of the more lower ranked players or unknown (unknown to me) drawn each other.

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54 minutes ago, kroni said:

was gonna same the same thing, never seen a draw like it, it seemed every time one of the top players was drawn out it was followed by another and  a lot of the more lower ranked players or unknown (unknown to me) drawn each other.

never seen anything like it.. It was like some kind of reverse seeding.

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Van Der Voort, I think, was 7-3 up and lost 10-9 ?

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I just can't hit these accys. Every singe time it's one loss.

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5th round draw was last night. I'm going with just an accy today (seens as im hitting them so well) ?

MVG (-1.5) / Price (-1.5) / Van Den Bergh / Dobey  / Noppert and Clayton 4/1 bet365

 

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and a bigger price one, I'm going

1pt - Gawlas, Evetts, Lewis, Aspinall and Woodhouse 22/1 bet365

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I'm shocked that De Zwaan beat Price. Happy to see Van Den Bergh make the final 8. Here's the draw

 

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2pts Aspinall to beat MVG 5/2 paddypower

1pt Aspinall to win UK Open 10/1 paddypower 

Whoever wins that match will be favorite ofcourse and so 10/1 is a big price. He won this as his first big event. 

 

[amity]

Saw Burnett beating Price, aside from his finishing, which is very good, Burnett is not all that great, Wright as usual these days was brilliant at times and shocking at other times, so inconsistent. Can't see Burnett going any further unless VdB doesn't show up.

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20 minutes ago, amity said:

Saw Burnett beating Price, aside from his finishing, which is very good, Burnett is not all that great, Wright as usual these days was brilliant at times and shocking at other times, so inconsistent. Can't see Burnett going any further unless VdB doesn't show up.

Yeah, fingers crossed. He hasn't gone above 90 since the longer legs so fingers crossed Van Den Bergh can win that one and then be inspired tonight. 

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Expected more from aspinall I must admit. VdB safely through. Do we want mvg in the semis or the final? 

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Typical. MvG in the semi finals. 

Good luck.

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Shame Dimi hasn't turned up. Thankfully it's top 4 so a 7/1 winner atleast.

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I'm pretty sick. Had gilding on my shortlist. 

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Why confused ghost? 

28/1 4 places. 7/1 winner for making top 4. 

[daveg]

Backed Gilding in so many Players Championships over the last couple of years … didn’t consider him for this, but absolutely delighted for him.

 

@fader did you back Dimi on PaddyPower? Followed you onto him each way at 28/1, they’ve settled it as a loser at the moment.

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Exactly, I saw his name pre tournament and just thought recently he hasn't done anything in those and left it alone. 

Yes I did, I am trying to get into their chat. They've done same to me but they will change it. 

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Apparently 8am-12pm the settlers work so should be sorted in morning 

[kroni]

got the same thing with Betfair on the Van Den Bergh bet, has any of yours been payed out yet?

[APitt1988]

I’ve been on Paddy Power chat and got this response 

 

Thanks for waiting this has been raised to the traders to be looked into your account will be updated accordingly when reviewed.

 

Not sure what the issue is and why it’s a problem. 

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took me 2 hours today to get my money but I got it. Anybody on PP now settled correctly? I want to know if it's just me they've settled it for or anybody who bet on it?

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2 hours ago, kroni said:

got the same thing with Betfair on the Van Den Bergh bet, has any of yours been payed out yet?

in the end.

Had to moan about it for 2hrs but they aint going to steal money from me. They offered 4 places. My betslip said 4 places and they tried to pretend it was 2 places. sod that. Don't take it. They'll pay out.