PDC World Championship 2014

RainMaker

hawaii501 wrote: »

Anyone think Huybrechts is a good bet at 4s to win his quarter. Only has Whitlock and Hamilton/Winstanley to beat who I would fancy him to beat anyway. Think it is a good price myself and I would rate him the best in the quarter anyway

I was just thinking there yesterday Huybrechts might be a good outside bet - even just to get to quarters/semis.

So many players seem to be off form lately - Whitlock, Chisnall, Hamiton for example, there's bound to be an outsider who makes it fairly far, maybe Gary Anderson can put a run together!

Good to see MVG back on form there recently, hopefully him or Lewis can provide some opposition to the Taylor steamroller at least

coolock94

flying over the 27th for the return after Christmas cant wait

sc86

taylors side of the draw is a joke

how is the draw so uneven?

KevIRL

Couple of changes to round 1 and prelim round. Edward Santos, the Philippines qualifer has withdrawn and will be replaced by Colin Osbourne in the preliminary round against Denis Linksjold, the winner will play Brendan Dolan in the 1st round proper. Serious bit of bad luck that for Dolan, who will have a right game now in the 1st round v Osbourne

Also been a change to running order for this Sunday night with the prelim game going first in the running order (usually second) as Sky will only show the first hour of proceedings from behind the red button. Revised format for Sunday is below


Amended Schedule of Play
Saturday December 14
Evening Session (7pm)
Julio Barbero v Andree Welge (P)
Robert Thornton v Max Hopp
Gary Anderson v Mark Dudbridge
Andy Hamilton v Barbero/Welge
Paul Nicholson v Stuart Kellett

Degag

Have had small bets on Anderson and King. Pity that each way only pays if the player gets to the final.

Alfred Borden

Thinking of throwing 20 on Barney :pac:

rambojon

Raf32 wrote: »

Thinking of throwing 20 on Barney :pac:

throwing is the word.. don't expect it back.. looks well out of sorts for a while now.. and couldn't have him on side for this one... lots of talk about lewis for nthis which seems fair given his brilliant match with mvg last tournie allied to not afraid to beat the power on big occasion...overall draw sets up taylor to peak for one game.. unfortunately I think he will.

liam7831

What did Phil mean when he said Aidy was defending 200 grand on Sky Sports?

Jarjohn

Basically defending ranking points won 2 years ago, If Lewis gets "only" 15k from upcoming Worlds, then his Order of Merit money will drop 185k and thus ranking will drop

liam7831

I wonder is Wadey worth a punt??

manafana

johnny giles who posts on here might have few tips up on his blog.

I like Lewis myself to win it out, once gets going into later stages he is such a classic player can make it look so easy and fears no one.

Kingp35

Today's the day lads, Christmas starts today! I hope you have the beers in for a mammoth 3 weeks of darts!

mdwexford

God I can't wait.

Absolutely love the Worlds!!!!

C'mon Lewis you hero.

barone

Hope mvg blows them all away ,taylor style,including taylor

Kingp35

I would love MvG to win it myself because he has never won it before in fact. I always want someone who has never won it before to win because it's something special that so few players manage to do. Sadly though I think MvG is the only one who really has a chance of doing this.

mdwexford

If the winner doesnt come from the big 3 if will be a big shock obviously.

Taylor has lost to much lesser players in Webster and Chizzy in recent years at long odds on but he wasnt in as good form as this year.

Just having a look at the prices now, Taylor to have the highest average 11/8 looks good.

KevIRL

Yaaay, Christmas is here. Hopefully the first round will be decent, can be a lot of mismatches, although I remember a couple of years back there was a few great games

Kingp35

Burnett v Winstanley has the potential to be very close tonight. Hard to pick a winner

Kingp35

Kingp35 wrote: »

Burnett v Winstanley has the potential to be very close tonight. Hard to pick a winner

Desperate draw for Burnett.

Bet he'll look glum...;)

messinkiapina

mdwexford wrote: »

If the winner doesnt come from the big 3 if will be a big shock obviously.

Taylor has lost to much lesser players in Webster and Chizzy in recent years at long odds on but he wasnt in as good form as this year.

Just having a look at the prices now, Taylor to have the highest average 11/8 looks good.

That's a very good price. Is that highest tournament average or single match average?

KevIRL

Ready to roll. Happy Christmas everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxvTsOkf0hU

mdwexford

messinkiapina wrote: »

That's a very good price. Is that highest tournament average or single match average?

Single match.

Its a bit of a lottery because someone could go average 110 in a 3-0 first round demolition but if no one does that I really like it.

Tournament average id have the house and car on it. :pac:

Sparks43

Part the porker off to a good start

KevIRL

Michels has some manky looking throw on him

mdwexford

Part looks like he could swallow this guy whole.

Kingp35

Part the better player and should see this out handy enough. It's clear the glasses are affecting him though because he keeps adjusting them. He really has piled on the weight. He looks dangerously unhealthy.

Glad to hear he'll be commentating even while he's still in the tournament.

KevIRL

Part gone to bits here. All v sloppy now

Kingp35

Awful stuff. He's puting pressure on himself. It's not as if Michels is playing that well

KevIRL

What a 120 checkout. Both have gone from sublime to ridiculous and back again during this game

KevIRL

Part gets over the line in the end but he was lucky Michels was so inconsistent.