Las Vegas Desert Classic Thread

NeoRox

Well the qualifiers are over and the following sixteen have made it. Nice to see Irish interest with Mick McGowan qualifying.

Has the making of a good tournament with the likes of King, Klassen, Thornton, Stompe, Painter and the in form Tabern and Walsh also getting through.

Monday Qualifiers

Mervyn King
Co Stompe
Shawn Brenneman
Mark Walsh
Robert Thornton
Martin Burchell
Steve Maish

Tuesday Qualifiers

Jelle Klaasen
Barrie Bates
Mick McGowan
Dennis Smith
Kevin Painter
Matt Clark
Sam Rooney
Alan Tabern

The main draw is not available yet. It all starts on Sky Sports Wednesday at 7pm.

Kingp35

Delighted Mick has got through, he seems to be in better form this year after a disastrous year last year. Also good to see the likes of King qualify, great to have the big names in there. Well done to Stompe and Thornton too, showing that they both can do well on the PDC circuit.

Carrickman

PartyPoker.net Las Vegas Desert Classic VII
First Round Schedule of Play
Wednesday 2 July (11am start, 7pm BST)
Dennis Priestley v Co Stompe
Terry Jenkins v Mick McGowan
Wayne Mardle v Adrian Gray
John Part v Mervyn King
Phil Taylor v Kevin Painter
Colin Lloyd v Sam Rooney
Roland Scholten v Barrie Bates
Darin Young v Martin Burchell

Thursday 3 July (11am start, 7pm BST)
Andy Hamilton v Shawn Brenneman
Bill Davis v Mark Walsh
Gerry Convery v Jelle Klaasen
Adrian Lewis v Robert Thornton
Raymond van Barneveld v Matt Clark
James Wade v Dennis Smith
Peter Manley v Steve Maish
Larry Butler v Alan Tabern

TheAlmightyZeus

Whose everyone goin for here? My two picks are James Wade and Terry Jenkins! Wadey is flying high but Jenkins has been known to get to alot of finals but cant take that one every step across the finish line.

MBC

See Ronnie Baxter hit a 9 darter in his qualifying match but then eventually lost to Jelle Klassen..........jaysus they are becoming so regular now a day :eek:

NeoRox

MBC wrote: »

See Ronnie Baxter hit a 9 darter in his qualifying match but then eventually lost to Jelle Klassen..........jaysus they are becoming so regular now a day :eek:

Roger Carter also hit one in Monday's qualifying round.

Some good matches in the first round.

Thornton vs. Lewis
Stompe vs. Priestley
Taylor vs. Part
Part vs. King

callaway92

I thought Taylor is against Painter???

callaway92

McGowan looks like he could pull off a surprise
Edit: we can forget about that

Kingp35

Some poor misses by McGowan on that match, Jenkins was there for the taking. The three darts Mick missed when he was on 32 to draw level was very poor.

Great win for Priestley although Stompe never showed up.

Mardle getting a bit of a beating at the moment.

Healio

What the hell was Colin Lloyd at there?

93 left, goes for bull, he hits 25 then goes at the Bull again and hits it????

NeoRox

callaway92 wrote: »

I thought Taylor is against Painter???

He was, typo mate.

NeoRox

Dennis Priestley 6-2 Co Stompe
Terry Jenkins 6-4 Mick McGowan
Adrian Gray 6-4 Wayne Mardle
Mervyn King 6-4John Part
Phil Taylor 6-4 Kevin Painter
Sam Rooney 6-5 Colin Lloyd
Roland Scholten 6-4 Barrie Bates
Darin Young 6-4 Martin Burchell

NeoRox

Andy Hamilton 6-1 Shawn Brenneman
Mark Walsh 6-5 Bill Davis
Jelle Klaasen 6-1 Gerry Convery
Adrian Lewis 6-5 Robert Thornton
Raymond Barneveld 6-0 Matt Clark
James Wade 6-1 Dennis Smith
Peter Manley 6-3 Steve Maish
Alan Tabern 6-4 Larry Butler

TheAlmightyZeus

Saw on SSN last night, some guy was on 501 and scored..... 5.


XD

NeoRox

James Wade 8-5 Mark Walsh
Peter Manley 8-6 Adrian Lewis
Andy Hamilton 8-7 Jelle Klaasen
Roland Scholten 8-6 Terry Jenkins
Phil Taylor 8-4 Dennis Priestley
Alan Tabern 8-4 Raymond van Barneveld
Adrian Gray 8-3 Sam Rooney
Mervyn King 8-6 Darin Young

Some good games tonight, Wade looked a bit off against Walsh but came through.
A good match between Manley and Lewis with Manley coming from 4-1 down.

Nip and tuck then between Hamilton and Klassen but a good match to watch.

Shock of the night was Tabern beating Barneveld with such a comfortable scoreline.

All in all a good nights darts.

Kingp35

Yeah very comfortable scoreline for Tabern, no one would have seen that one coming. Really enjoyed the Lewis v Manley match. The standard was excellent, havent seen manley hit so many 180's in the one match before.

Little disappointed Priestley couldnt put it up to Taylor a bit more, he usually gives him a good game.

Taylors title to lose now I think.

NeoRox

Roland Scholten vs. Mervyn King
Phil Taylor vs. Adrian Gray
James Wade vs. Andy Hamilton
Alan Tabern vs. Peter Manley

I wouldn't go that far yet KingP35, while I think Taylor will beat Gray easily enough its the playing of the semi final and final in the same evening that could be the deciding factor.

ArmaniJeanss

Semi Finals.
Wade v Manley.
Taylor v Scholten.

Was only half watching the 1/4s. Scholten blitzed King without averaging particularly highly.
Wade looked in decent nick for long periods but rather stumbled over the line in the end (and bizzarely enough in the interview afterwards seemed to think it was a last16 game, not a 1/4 final !).
Manleys game was attrociously bad, everytime I looked up he seemed to be going for doubleOne.
Didn't see PTs game.

Semis and Final today.

Total lack of atmosphere in the MGM and the players don't seem too bothered anyway (only £20K for winner).

NeoRox

Taylor beats Wade by a 13-7 scoreline. Decent enough game with Taylor getting in to an early lead and never really letting Wade in.

As ArmaniJeanss said the atmosphere was really bad at the MGM.

Blackpool next.

tallanted

It was on in the Mandalay Bay not the Mgm, bare in mind it starts at half 10 in the morning over there, I was there myself and have to say it was far more enjoyable than any of the tournaments over here. Some may say lack of atmosphere but I would put it down to far more respect for the players when throwing. Its not all about drinking and making noise, its about good darts

Ronan|Raven

Forgot you went over to it Tallanted. Heading along tonight?