2010 PDC European Championship

Dartgod

PHIL TAYLOR opens his challenge for a third successive PartyPoker.net European Championship title on Thursday, when he takes on Co Stompe as the £200,000 tournament begins in Dinslaken, Germany.
Taylor has lifted the European Championship trophy in each of the past two years since the tournament was launched in 2008.
The world number one travels to the Stadthalle in Dinslaken on a high after winning his 11th World Matchplay last Sunday, as he seeks to win a fourth major title inside three months.
"Winning the World Matchplay was great and I'd love to go on and win the European Championship this weekend," said Taylor. "I'm feeling great and playing well, and winning this would round off a perfect summer."
Taylor takes on Co Stompe in the first round, with the Dutchman having defeated him in the 2008 German Darts Championship final.
"Co has done brilliantly in the last couple of years and he played superbly when he won the German Darts Championship, but that was a different day," added Taylor.
"I put it behind me and so has Co, and we've played a few times since. He did well in the World Matchplay last week and I know he'll want that to continue in Germany."
Stompe followed that German Darts Championship victory with two World Championship quarter-final appearances, as well as winning a Players Championship a month ago and reaching the last eight in Blackpool.
"The win over Phil is in the past and you can't dwell on that because it's history," said Stompe. "It's a new game on Thursday and I've got a hard game against Phil.
"I've turned my game around, because I've been practising on my doubles and they went alright in Blackpool but my scoring let me down.
"I know I can play better than I did in Blackpool, and I'll go up there on Thursday and hopefully give Phil a big fight."
The tournament's opening night will also feature the eagerly-awaited clash between two of the sport's fastest throwers, Jelle Klaasen and Vincent van der Voort.
The Dutch pair have both enjoyed strong form in 2010, while Klaasen - a European Championship semi-finalist last year - reached the quarter-finals of last week's World Matchplay with a slightly slower throwing style.
"I tried to slow down and it felt good," he said. "I'm always trying to improve my game and I've tried something new on stage now, and I played well.
"I think I'll try to play slower now in every tournament. It will be a hard match to play against Vincent because we travel all the time and are good friends, but when we get on stage we're enemies and want to beat each other 6-0."
The players ranked fourth and fifth in the world, Mervyn King and Terry Jenkins, have an opportunity to bounce back from first round exits in the World Matchplay when they face Barrie Bates and Germany's Andree Welge respectively.
Simon Whitlock, the Australian who has jumped to eighth in the PDC Order of Merit following his run to the semi-finals of the World Matchplay, takes on two-time World Champion Dennis Priestley on his European Championship debut.
The tournament will open when Paul Nicholson, January's Players Championship Finals winner, faces Andy Smith - who had minor surgery on a leg injury a week ago but has previously won a Players Championship on the Dinslaken stage.
Gary Anderson, the UK Open finalist who has been troubled by a shoulder injury in recent weeks and lost to Klaasen in Blackpool, meets Jamie Caven, and number eight seed Mark Walsh faces Spanish debutant Antonio Alcinas.
World number two Raymond van Barneveld - who hit a nine-darter in the World Matchplay before losing to Taylor in the final - takes on Andy Hamilton on the second night of play on Friday, while number three seed James Wade faces Colin Lloyd.
German pair Tomas Seyler and Bernd Roith are in action on home soil, with Roith taking on Denis Ovens on his televised debut while Seyler meets Michael van Gerwen - the Dutch youngster who has been sidelined for the past month with a broken collarbone.
The PartyPoker.net European Championship is being shown live on Sport1 in Germany and on Bravo in the UK - Bravo can be found at channel 123 on Sky and 136 on Virgin Media.
Coverage on Bravo will be fronted by Dave Gorman and James Richardson throughout the tournament.
PartyPoker.net European Championship
Schedule of Play
Thursday July 29
First Round
Play commences 8pm German time (7pm UK time)
8.00pm Paul Nicholson v Andy Smith
8.30pm Mark Walsh v Antonio Alcinas
9.00pm Terry Jenkins v Andree Welge
9.30pm Simon Whitlock v Dennis Priestley
10.00pm Gary Anderson v Jamie Caven
10.30pm Phil Taylor v Co Stompe
11.00pm Jelle Klaasen v Vincent van der Voort
11.30pm Mervyn King v Barrie Bates
Friday July 30
First Round
Play commences 8pm German time (7pm UK time)
8.00pm Bernd Roith v Denis Ovens
8.30pm Mark Dudbridge v Robert Thornton
9.00pm Adrian Lewis v Wayne Jones
9.30pm Tomas Seyler v Michael van Gerwen
10.00pm James Wade v Colin Lloyd
10.30pm Raymond van Barneveld v Andy Hamilton
11.00pm Colin Osborne v Wes Newton
11.30pm Ronnie Baxter v Alan Tabern
Saturday July 31
Second Round
Afternoon Session
Play commences 2pm German time (1pm UK time)
2.00pm Walsh/Alcinas v Klaasen/van der Voort
3.00pm Jenkins/Welge v Whitlock/Priestley
4.00pm Baxter/Tabern v Osborne/Newton
5.00pm Lewis/Jones v Dudbridge/Thornton
Evening Session
Play Commences 8pm German time (7pm UK time)
8.00pm King/Bates v Anderson/Caven
9.00pm van Barneveld/Hamilton v Roith/Ovens
10.00pm Taylor/Stompe v Nicholson/Smith
11.00pm Wade/Lloyd v Seyler/van Gerwen
Sunday August 1
Afternoon Session
Quarter-Finals
Play commences 2pm German time (1pm UK time)
2.00pm Jenkins/Welge/Whitlock/Priestley v King/Bates/Anderson/Caven
3.00pm Wade/Lloyd/Seyler/van Gerwen v Baxter/Tabern/Osborne/Newton
4.00pm Taylor/Stompe/Nicholson/Smith v Walsh/Alcinas/Klaasen/van der Voort
5.00pm van Barneveld/Hamilton/Roith/Ovens v Lewis/Jones/Dudbridge/Thornton
Evening Session
Play commences 8pm German time (7pm UK time)
Semi-Finals
8.00pm
9.15pm
Final
11.00pm
Format
First Round Best of 11 legsSecond Round Best of 19 legsQuarter-Finals Best of 19 legsSemi-Finals Best of 21 legsFinal Best of 21 legs

Kingp35

Does anyone know who the presenters and commentators on Bravo are?

TanG411

I believe it's Chris Mason and Alan Warriner doing the commentary.

James Richardson is supposed to be doing player interviews.

Kingp35

Cheers. Hopefully their coverage is good.

Healio

Dave Gorman is involved as well for some reason.

sc86

Kingp35 wrote: »

Cheers. Hopefully their coverage is good.

be a nice change from all the hype on sky...

lookin 4ward to this
is this the 1st year its being televised?

Kingp35

Healio wrote: »

Dave Gorman is involved as well for some reason.

Is it wrong that I have no idea who Dave Gorman is! Does anyone want to fill me in?

And yeah this is the first year of it being televised.

greened

Any live on line streams?

Kingp35

Links can be found here

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=82300&part=sports

There will probably be a few more up there tonight as well.

Dicie

Dave Gorman??

Not sure i know of him, but i do know mace and AwL are doing comm... Similar to ITV s set up

The Bison

Dicie wrote: »

Dave Gorman??

Not sure i know of him, but i do know mace and AwL are doing comm... Similar to ITV s set up

http://www.davegorman.com/ now you know him!:D

villabren

Dicie wrote: »

Dave Gorman??

Not sure i know of him, but i do know mace and AwL are doing comm... Similar to ITV s set up

Check out his book called Are You Dave Gorman?. Very funny

Devastator

Kingp35 wrote: »

Is it wrong that I have no idea who Dave Gorman is! Does anyone want to fill me in?

yes

Dicie wrote: »

Dave Gorman??

He's a stand up comedian, also recently done a few sort of travelling shows.



Decent aul crowd there, some prick keeps shouting out when Jenks throwing though :mad:

I like Mason as a commentator, he's easy to listen to.


I've done a double on tonight : Stompe(13/2) & Caven(7/4)....daft yes

Reckon 1st round is as good as the last for a possible Taylor upset and its only best of 11 so if he takes a few legs to get into it then Stompe could get a lead. Took Caven as Anderson looked dreadful in his last matchplay game, his dodgy shoulder could still be bothering him.

Worth £2 for bit of interest

Degag

Jaysus, those Germans get excited when the dance music comes on at the breaks don't they?

greened

any results from the earlier games?

Devastator

Degag wrote: »

Jaysus, those Germans get excited when the dance music comes on at the breaks don't they?

compared to any uk/Ireland crowd when chase the sun comes on.....not really

sc86

the standard of the tv coverage made the bbc coverage of the lakeside respectable

they couldnt even keep up the scoring:(

i love seein gary anderson do well but he is really pissin me of watchin him, when he looses it doesnt even look like he cares

The Bison

sc86 wrote: »

i love seein gary anderson do well but he is really pissin me of watchin him, when he looses it doesnt even look like he cares

He has a shoulder injury and will get operated on it next week!

sc86

The Bison wrote: »

He has a shoulder injury and will get operated on it next week!

ah theres always something with him, fair enough he does look in pain, if he doesnt start bein consistant soon hes just never gona reach his potential:(

Rob113

Your man calling the scores sounds like he should be down the local bingo hall. Very annoying voice. Camera work is ****e aswell. Not impressed with the coverage. Hopefully it sorts itself out

KrazeeEyezKilla

When you're struggling with the camera work the last thing you want is Klaasen & Van Der Voort going round the board at their speed. They were switching to 19 so many times the camera man seemed to give up for a couple of minutes.

Degag

Devastator wrote: »

compared to any uk/Ireland crowd when chase the sun comes on.....not really

I forgot the smilie to denote the sarcasm!;):D

Kingp35

Not a great night of darts. Standard wasn't the best from most of the players bar Mark Walsh, Simon Whitlock, Barrie Bates and of course Taylor.

Bravo's covergae was terrible but the only consolation is that they know it was, What was going on witgh the scoreboard? It only worked for the first couple of games then was completely wrong for the rest. They just gave up on it in the end. The camera work was awful as well, they completely missed a 142 checkout by Klaasen. James Richardson tried his ebst but clearly knows nothing about darts. The commentary was good though as was Dave Gorman who seems to know his stuff.

Hopefully it improves for tonight.

greened

Hopefully things will improve. I found it hard to watch for all the reason listed above.
I thingk that they really need to get a darts player as a spotter for the camera man so he can tell him what number the player is likely to throw at. I think he gave up with Klassen and Van der Vort game. Had no idea of where they were going to throw at next and could not keep up withthe pace when he did!

It can only get better!

Kingp35

greened wrote: »

I thingk that they really need to get a darts player as a spotter for the camera man so he can tell him what number the player is likely to throw at.

Eric Bristow was doing the spotting for them last night, Warriner-Little mentioned it a couple of times during commentary. It shows that the cameraman was even worse considering he couldn't follow Bristow's instructions. Of course Bristow could easily have been telling him the wrong thing

dartbhoy

As bad as Bravo are at covering darts at least they have the 2 best analysts in the game in Warriner and Mason and they make the coverage worthwhile looking at. It can only get better for Bravo,this is their 1st time covering darts so there's bound to be a few problems at the start,hopefully it'll improve.

villabren

Kingp35 wrote: »

Not a great night of darts. Standard wasn't the best from most of the players bar Mark Walsh, Simon Whitlock, Barrie Bates and of course Taylor.

Bravo's covergae was terrible but the only consolation is that they know it was, What was going on witgh the scoreboard? It only worked for the first couple of games then was completely wrong for the rest. They just gave up on it in the end. The camera work was awful as well, they completely missed a 142 checkout by Klaasen. James Richardson tried his ebst but clearly knows nothing about darts. The commentary was good though as was Dave Gorman who seems to know his stuff.

Hopefully it improves for tonight.

ITV used to be brutal to start with as well. Haven't heard any of Dave Gorman but if he's knows anything about darts he's an instant improvement on Colin Murray who seems to wear his ignorance like a badge of pride

Devastator

dartbhoy wrote: »

As bad as Bravo are at covering darts

Give 'em a break, I can't remember ever seeing any live events on bravo before.

villabren wrote: »

ITV used to be brutal to start with as well. Haven't heard any of Dave Gorman but if he's knows anything about darts he's an instant improvement on Colin Murray who seems to wear his ignorance like a badge of pride

colin murray is a bbc 'pundit/commentator"/ballbag, he was doing the bdo coverage.

When ITV started the GSOD it was pish, but they got it together. Can't remember the name of the fella who does the ITV coverage of darts, its the same bloke who does a lot of their football coverage, decent enough sports presenter + he's a Liverpool man too!


Tonights quad bet :- Dudbridge(5/6), Jones (11/8), Lloyd (2/1) & Newton (10/11)


Obviously Lloyd is the outsider in there, but the last few tournaments I've seen him in he has started brilliantly! Fell away in later rounds and he was all over Painter for first 8/9 legs at the matchplay so reckon he could maybe give Wade a game.

villabren

Think it's Matt Smith is the guy's name from ITV

villabren

Who won btw van Gerwen and Seyler?

The Bison

Messege I got earlier from Alan Warriner-Little;
I think the guy who did the software for it has been kicked up the backside more than once, it was pants and hard to follow in the commentry box, we had to guess most of the time, should (Hopefully) be better today...keep letting us know how it is and any comments to make it better, we give them ideas all the time

Devastator

Devastator wrote: »

Tonights quad bet :- Dudbridge(5/6), Jones (11/8), Lloyd (2/1) & Newton (10/11)


Obviously Lloyd is the outsider in there, but the last few tournaments I've seen him in he has started brilliantly! Fell away in later rounds and he was all over Painter for first 8/9 legs at the matchplay so reckon he could maybe give Wade a game.

So close to a nice little bet there! Only had 2 quid on it and would have been a nice little sweat if it hadn't been the 1st game that lost

Up few pound anyway, bet on the other 3 in singles and Lloyd +2.5 handicap

The Bison wrote: »

any comments to make it better, we give them ideas all the time

Call Sid

dartbhoy

Devastator wrote: »

Give 'em a break, I can't remember ever seeing any live events on bravo before.


If you read my full post you would have seen that I did say that the coverage could only get better as it was their first time doing darts! Anyway it's more darts on TV and that's good news to all us darts fans! Great win for Baxter in that last game there.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Colin Osbourne let him go somethin' shocking!

dartbhoy

Adrian Lewis is in shocking form at the moment,hard to believe Wayne Jones beat him!

Dartgod

PartyPoker.net European Championship
First Round
Friday July 30
Bernd Roith 6-4 Denis Ovens
Mark Dudbridge 4-6 Robert Thornton
Adrian Lewis 3-6 Wayne Jones
Tomas Seyler 4-6 Michael van Gerwen
James Wade 4-6 Colin Lloyd
Raymond van Barneveld 6-5 Andy Hamilton
Colin Osborne 4-6 Wes Newton
Ronnie Baxter 6-5 Alan Tabern

Dartgod

Saturday July 31
Second Round
Afternoon Session (2pm local time)
Mark Walsh v Jelle Klaasen
Terry Jenkins v Simon Whitlock
Ronnie Baxter v Wes Newton
Wayne Jones v Robert Thornton
Evening Session (8pm local time)
Barrie Bates v Jamie Caven
Raymond van Barneveld v Bernd Roith
Phil Taylor v Andy Smith
Colin Lloyd v Michael van Gerwen
Best of 19 legs

My forecasts in red.

Warning ! Do not put any money on them as my reputation as a tipster haunts me at times !

Dartgod

Dartgod wrote: »

Saturday July 31
Second Round
Afternoon Session (2pm local time)
Mark Walsh v Jelle Klaasen
Terry Jenkins v Simon Whitlock
Ronnie Baxter v Wes Newton
Wayne Jones v Robert Thornton
Evening Session (8pm local time)
Barrie Bates v Jamie Caven
Raymond van Barneveld v Bernd Roith
Phil Taylor v Andy Smith
Colin Lloyd v Michael van Gerwen
Best of 19 legs

My forecasts in red.

Warning ! Do not put any money on them as my reputation as a tipster haunts me at times !

I hope that you all took my advice and stayed away from my predictions !

First three down with Jones preventing the 'whitewash' !

Might have better luck tonight.

dartbhoy

Good to see Terry Jenkins win today after poor performances recently. I'd agree with Dartgod on all of tonight's games except the Bates v Caven game,I reckon Bates will sneak this one!

padr81

Dartgod wrote: »

Saturday July 31
Second Round
Afternoon Session (2pm local time)
Mark Walsh v Jelle Klaasen
Terry Jenkins v Simon Whitlock
Ronnie Baxter v Wes Newton
Wayne Jones v Robert Thornton
Evening Session (8pm local time)
Barrie Bates v Jamie Caven
Raymond van Barneveld v Bernd Roith
Phil Taylor v Andy Smith
Colin Lloyd v Michael van Gerwen
Best of 19 legs

My forecasts in red.

Warning ! Do not put any money on them as my reputation as a tipster haunts me at times !

Bad first session DG, good job you put that warning up.

dartbhoy

Great display by Caven there,so much for me thinking Bates would win it!

Dartgod

dartbhoy wrote: »

Good to see Terry Jenkins win today after poor performances recently. I'd agree with Dartgod on all of tonight's games except the Bates v Caven game,I reckon Bates will sneak this one!

I'm on a roll now, darthboy, I could have a 'Full House' tonight !

My luck has changed - - - I must check my Lotto ticket !

dartbhoy

Dartgod wrote: »

I'm on a roll now, darthboy, I could have a 'Full House' tonight !

My luck has changed - - - I must check my Lotto ticket !

There's no stopping you now Dartgod!

Dartgod

dartbhoy wrote: »

There's no stopping you now Dartgod!

Right there, dartbhoy, four wins on the trot tonight !

My luck was definitely in with 3 numbers in Lotto Plus2 to win a €1 scratch card and I have to share the winnings with the other three in the syndicate.

Looking forward to the final day on Bravo tomorrow and my new role as Top Tipster !

dartbhoy

A nice quad there if I had betted on Dartgod's predictions which came up tonight,keep them coming Dartgod!

Dartgod

dartbhoy wrote: »

A nice quad there if I had betted on Dartgod's predictions which came up tonight,keep them coming Dartgod!

I'm going to push my luck and go for four HOME wins tomorrow - - -


Sunday August 1
Afternoon Session
Quarter-Finals
Play commences 2pm German time (1pm UK time)
2.00pm Terry Jenkins v Jamie Caven
3.00pm Colin Lloyd v Ronnie Baxter
4.00pm Phil Taylor v Mark Walsh
5.00pm Raymond van Barneveld v Wayne Jones

Evening Session
Play commences 8pm German time (7pm UK time)
Semi-Finals
8.00pm
9.15pm

Final
11.00pm

Devastator

Think Caven at evns is a great price. He's been playing very well and Jenk's form has been dodgy.

Reckon Lloyd's scoring will be too much for Baxter.

Walsh is 10/1 to beat Taylor :eek: Obviously Taylor is fantasic, but if I were to pick 3 or 4 players that could beat him in a tournament like this I reckon Walsh would be one of them. I'm not decided what Im betting on this yet.

Jones 9/4 to beat Barney looks good to me, been playing very solid recently

Dartgod

The Bull keeps roaring on - - - 10 - 6 to Jenkins.

One up for me !

dartfan

Hi Dartgod,
Would agree with you on the first 3 but i think
jones just might pip barney by 10-8.

villabren

Interesting to hear Jenkins respond to Rod Harrrington's remarks. I wonder who he's referring to when he talks about the other players that are unhappy with Harrington

dartfan

Did'nt hear what rod said as i missed that bit,but rod in the
past has been a bit over the top at time's.