The Bridge Lad
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The draw was made today for the biggest tournament in darts - The (PDC) World Championships. The tournament starts a week on Friday (13th) and concludes on New Years Day night.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_PDC_World_Darts_Championship
The draw as usual has the respective paths marked out up to the final, so players know who they are in line to face at certain phases. Phil Taylor is in the top half of the draw, and thus can't play any of MVG, Lewis, RVB and Wade until the final.
72 players will take part. As usual there are 16 preliminary qualifiers who play-off in order to reach the first round proper. These ties take place at the start of each session in a race to 5 legs (I think, could be 4) and the winner will return later that night to compete in the final match of the day in the first round proper.
Preliminary draw
Rob Szabo v Ian Moss
Devon Petersen v Mohd Latif Sapup
Gino Vos v Royden Lam
Zoran Lerchbacher v Ben Ward
Dennis Lindskjold v Edward Santos
Morihiro Hashimoto v Paul Lim
Colin McGarry v Per Laursen
Julio Barbero v Andree Welge
TOP HALF
First Quarter
Phil Taylor v Szabo/Moss
Michael Smith v Hashimoto/Lim
Peter Wright v Joe Cullen
Terry Jenkins v McGarry/Laursen
Wes Newton v Vos/Lam
John Part v Mareno Michels
Robert Thornton v Max Hopp
Colin Lloyd v Beau Anderson
Second Quarter
Andy Hamilton v Barbero/Welge
Richie Burnett v Dean Winstanley
Kim Huybrechts v Ronny Huybrechts
Ian White v Kyle Anderson
Simon Whitlock v Ross Smith
Mark Walsh v Jarkko Komula
Kevin Painter v Tomas Seyler
Paul Nicholson v Stuart Kellett
BOTTOM HALF
Third Quarter
Michael van Gerwen v Lerchbacher/Ward
Wayne Jones v Kevin McDine
Brendan Dolan v Lindskjold/Santos
Gary Anderson v Mark Dudbridge
Dave Chisnall v John Henderson
Mark Webster v Mensur Suljovic
Raymond van Barneveld v Jamie Lewis
Jamie Caven v Jelle Klaasen
Fourth Quarter
James Wade v Darren Webster
Andy Smith v Steve Brown
Justin Pipe v Arron Monk
Steve Beaton v Petersen/Sapup
Adrian Lewis v Dennis Smith
Vincent van der Voort v Matt Clark
Mervyn King v Darin Young
Ronnie Baxter v Ricky Evans
Prize money:
The total prize money is at least £1,050,000, with a cool £250,000 on offer to the winner, a £50,000 increase on last year. £30,000 is on offer as a bonus for a 9 dart finish.
Odds:
http://www.oddschecker.com/darts/pdc-world-championship/winner
The bookies have installed Phil Taylor as the odds-on favourite, and is available at the best price of 10/11. Michael Van Gerwen fresh after his Players Championship win last night is second favourite and is available at 4/1. Adrian Lewis is the only other realistic winner as far as the bookies are concerned and is generally 6/1. There could be some value in quarter betting, or to reach the final etc.
Last years thread:
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/pdc-world-darts-championship-2013.746648/
Looking forward to this Xmas wouldn't be the same without this on in the background
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_PDC_World_Darts_Championship
The draw as usual has the respective paths marked out up to the final, so players know who they are in line to face at certain phases. Phil Taylor is in the top half of the draw, and thus can't play any of MVG, Lewis, RVB and Wade until the final.
72 players will take part. As usual there are 16 preliminary qualifiers who play-off in order to reach the first round proper. These ties take place at the start of each session in a race to 5 legs (I think, could be 4) and the winner will return later that night to compete in the final match of the day in the first round proper.
Preliminary draw
Rob Szabo v Ian Moss
Devon Petersen v Mohd Latif Sapup
Gino Vos v Royden Lam
Zoran Lerchbacher v Ben Ward
Dennis Lindskjold v Edward Santos
Morihiro Hashimoto v Paul Lim
Colin McGarry v Per Laursen
Julio Barbero v Andree Welge
TOP HALF
First Quarter
Phil Taylor v Szabo/Moss
Michael Smith v Hashimoto/Lim
Peter Wright v Joe Cullen
Terry Jenkins v McGarry/Laursen
Wes Newton v Vos/Lam
John Part v Mareno Michels
Robert Thornton v Max Hopp
Colin Lloyd v Beau Anderson
Second Quarter
Andy Hamilton v Barbero/Welge
Richie Burnett v Dean Winstanley
Kim Huybrechts v Ronny Huybrechts
Ian White v Kyle Anderson
Simon Whitlock v Ross Smith
Mark Walsh v Jarkko Komula
Kevin Painter v Tomas Seyler
Paul Nicholson v Stuart Kellett
BOTTOM HALF
Third Quarter
Michael van Gerwen v Lerchbacher/Ward
Wayne Jones v Kevin McDine
Brendan Dolan v Lindskjold/Santos
Gary Anderson v Mark Dudbridge
Dave Chisnall v John Henderson
Mark Webster v Mensur Suljovic
Raymond van Barneveld v Jamie Lewis
Jamie Caven v Jelle Klaasen
Fourth Quarter
James Wade v Darren Webster
Andy Smith v Steve Brown
Justin Pipe v Arron Monk
Steve Beaton v Petersen/Sapup
Adrian Lewis v Dennis Smith
Vincent van der Voort v Matt Clark
Mervyn King v Darin Young
Ronnie Baxter v Ricky Evans
Prize money:
The total prize money is at least £1,050,000, with a cool £250,000 on offer to the winner, a £50,000 increase on last year. £30,000 is on offer as a bonus for a 9 dart finish.
Odds:
http://www.oddschecker.com/darts/pdc-world-championship/winner
The bookies have installed Phil Taylor as the odds-on favourite, and is available at the best price of 10/11. Michael Van Gerwen fresh after his Players Championship win last night is second favourite and is available at 4/1. Adrian Lewis is the only other realistic winner as far as the bookies are concerned and is generally 6/1. There could be some value in quarter betting, or to reach the final etc.
Last years thread:
http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/pdc-world-darts-championship-2013.746648/
Looking forward to this Xmas wouldn't be the same without this on in the background
