The Grand Slam of Darts Thread

theroversreturn

pretty optimistic of darin cos i wouldnt fancy his chances. then again he is a yank and ya cant top them when it comes to confidence

dartbhoy

Looking at the draw it's hard to see anyone else bar Taylor winning this tournament. Looking at the draw groups E-H are on the opposite half to Taylor so an each way bet on a player from these groups will be my bet. Adrian Lewis @ 40/1 with 180bets.com is a great price and has the potential to reach the final but is his head in the right frame of mind for the tournament is another question!

pejesus

padr81 wrote: »

Kong will never get a pdc event invite regardless, wasn't he kicked out of the pdc for ......

what was he kicked out of the pdc for

pejesus

Any Double ! wrote: »

I'd say Andy Jenkins is finished anyway but I think that maybe the way the Darts Regularity Authority work is they have meetings at regular intervals to discuss any cases that have come up and Jenkins prob won't come before them for a while yet, some say maybe after the World's
I hope I'm wrong but either way his days should be numbered !

what did old andy jenkins do

ratinakeg

pejesus wrote: »

what was he kicked out of the pdc for

I think he failed a drugs test!

ratinakeg

pejesus wrote: »

what did old andy jenkins do

He attacked Terry Jenkins at the european championships last week!

Any Double !

Anyone got any news from todays GSOD qualifiers in Irvine ??

dionsiseire

Starts at 6pm

Any Double !

dionsiseire wrote: »

Starts at 6pm

Wonder if scores are being updated on PDC website.

Kingp35

Any Double ! wrote: »

Wonder if scores are being updated on PDC website.

I reckon they will be, they usually are.

Would love to see Priestley or Van Gerwen win through the qualifiers. Obviously Jacko too

ratinakeg

Steve Maish wins the qualifying spot for the Grand Slam beating Arron Monk 5-3 in the final!

Any Double !

ratinakeg wrote: »

Steve Maish wins the qualifying spot for the Grand Slam beating Arron Monk 5-3 in the final!

Great result for the wee man, a very tough dogged competitor and will be a handful for anybody in Wolverhampton and great run for the young Monk too.
I really thought with Wayne Jone's form that when he reached semi's he would go thru but not to be !

ratinakeg

Any Double ! wrote: »

Great result for the wee man, a very tough dogged competitor and will be a handful for anybody in Wolverhampton and great run for the young Monk too.
I really thought with Wayne Jone's form that when he reached semi's he would go thru but not to be !

Yeah Thought Jones was a cert! Happy Andy Jenkins did not qualify!:D

Any Double !

ratinakeg wrote: »

Yeah Happy Andy Jenkins did not qualify!:D

Couldn't agree more !

Devastator

I have not been reading this thread, so this whole time I've been thinking the GSOD starts tomorrow. It wasn't until Iwas reading about the qualifer event and it said starts next Saturday! :eek: I thought because qualifer was today the tournament starts tomorrow

Sort of glad because won't miss any due to the boxing and madrid derby tomorrow night, but saddened as I means no darts for another week. Seems an age since we had a tournament on tv

ratinakeg

Devastator wrote: »

I have not been reading this thread, so this whole time I've been thinking the GSOD starts tomorrow. It wasn't until Iwas reading about the qualifer event and it said starts next Saturday! :eek: I thought because qualifer was today the tournament starts tomorrow

Sort of glad because won't miss any due to the boxing and madrid derby tomorrow night, but saddened as I means no darts for another week. Seems an age since we had a tournament on tv

Relax Devastator we'll get our fix of darts soon!;):D It's only been 3 0r 4 weeks , it does feel like ages though!:eek::D

Kingp35

Well done to Maish, he must have played some top darts to win through such a tough field. He will be a handful for anyone he plays against.

Devastator

ratinakeg wrote: »

It's only been 3 0r 4 weeks , it does feel like ages though!:eek::D

Yeah I know, but I wanna be spoilt with darts

Kingp35 wrote: »

Well done to Maish, he must have played some top darts to win through such a tough field. He will be a handful for anyone he plays against.

yeah! Steve Beaton could be a dark horse also. Been playing well lately, won an event few weeks ago and was beaten finalist 5-6 against Wes Newton in todays players championship. Fair play to Newton, also been playing some crackin darts last few months, pity he'll not be in GSOD

Carrickman

Draw:
http://www.pdc.tv/page/GrandSlamDetail/0,,10180~1867657,00.html

Devastator

Cheers for that Carrickman! I was trying to C&P the draw the other day but couldn't highlight it for some reason, not sure if it something to do with my browser or the website. Anyway, didn't think to do the link instead:D


2nd Saturday night running theres loads of great sport on tv! Got the WC play-offs with Ireland V France game, UFC 105, Manny Pacquaio V Cotto and the GSOD kicks off!

Least it makes up for being skint and having to sit in at the weekends

Carrickman

Devastator wrote: »

Cheers for that Carrickman! I was trying to C&P the draw the other day but couldn't highlight it for some reason, not sure if it something to do with my browser or the website.

Yeah it's a problem with the site you have to keep refreshing to highlight the text but it only works somtimes got fed up and just posted the link instead!

ratinakeg

I think I'll be having a bet or 2 before Saturday! Have a look at the odds;

http://www.oddschecker.com/other-sports/darts/grand-slam-of-darts/win-market

sc86

im very surprised to see gary anderson 3rd favourite, all the same if hes on his game he is well able to win it

dartbhoy

Impossible to see Taylor losing this so will bet on a player each way on the opposite side of draw. Adrian Lewis @ 33/1 is good value and i will chance a tenner each way on him,at 1/2 odds if he reaches the final will make a nice profit of 165 euros! Simon Whitlock @ 66/1 is also great odds and a tempting bet.

ratinakeg

Mervyn King @ 2/9 Tony OShea @ 4/9 Colin Osborne @ 8/13 Kevin Painter @ 8/11 Darryl Fitton @ 1/2 Vincent Van Der Voort @ 8/11

€10 accum. Fingers crossed!;):D

mike65

Just browsing the tv listings and shocked to see ITV 4 mass coverage, I might get back into the Ockey action (some betting opportunities as well)

dartbhoy

Put a tenner each way on Adrian Lewis @ 33/1 at my local Hacketts bookies. Ted Hankey is priced @ 66/1 so threw a fiver each way on him. He wouldn't be my favourite player but he's still the BDO World Champion and that's surely a good reference in any darting CV. It just goes to show that the bookmakers don't rate the BDO Players much when the World champ is that price! Coverage Of The Grand Slam Of Darts starts tonight at 7 00 on ITV4.

Kingp35

Anyone find an English proxy so us chumps on NTL can watch this on ITV website?

dartbhoy

Anyone without ITV4 should check out Myp2p.eu,a very good website for live sports and the darts should be shown on some stream off that site.

Devastator

ratinakeg wrote: »

Mervyn King @ 2/9 Tony OShea @ 4/9 Colin Osborne @ 8/13 Kevin Painter @ 8/11 Darryl Fitton @ 1/2 Vincent Van Der Voort @ 8/11

good luck

dartbhoy wrote: »

Put a tenner each way on Adrian Lewis @ 33/1 at my local Hacketts bookies. Ted Hankey is priced @ 66/1 so threw a fiver each way on him. He wouldn't be my favourite player but he's still the BDO World Champion and that's surely a good reference in any darting CV. It just goes to show that the bookmakers don't rate the BDO Players much when the World champ is that price! Coverage Of The Grand Slam Of Darts starts tonight at 7 00 on ITV4.

Gonna have couple of quid on both Steve Beaton & Andy Hamilton at 33s and Robert Thornton at 66. All on opposite side of draw from Taylor, so at 1/3 odds for eachway they just need to reach final. I think if any of them hit some form they could well do it. Hamilton, I nearly alway expect to get to 1/4s at least, Beaton's been playing very well recently and Thornton is dangerous, although he hasn't been playing like he did when he 1st came into PDC.


Should be good tournament, just pity the football and UFC is on at same time tonight



EDIT -- decided after checking odds checker(cheers rat) to get onto stan james. Hamilton 50/1 and Beaton/Thornton 66/1 but they offer EW odds of 1/2 for 2 places

shockframe

5-0 king

wayne76

Kingp35 wrote: »

Anyone find an English proxy so us chumps on NTL can watch this on ITV website?

http://www.justin.tv/wockysport2 should get it here

Jay.cymru

wayne76 wrote: »

http://www.justin.tv/wockysport2 should get it here

great link wayne cheers mate

savage darts from Taylor tonight. what a response tho to the Russian girl who got 180 and 100 and Taylor pulled an absolute rabbit from the hat. England boast about alot of competitors who come up short but this man is genius and doesn't get a mention in comparison to their soccer team who underachieve.

Any Double !

No real shocks on night one but great entertainment.
King scoots through as expected as does Osborne,O 'Shea, Webster too but wouldn't have been as fancied.. Taylor drops no leg after again telling us how hard a game it was going to be. Barney does more or less the same to the other Lady competitor in the event but much less convincingly ....I think he still has demons to shake off. Fitton again gets the wobbles as he did when our own Connie put the squeeze on him recently. Still was a great night and Painter V Part was my match of the night. They both served up a treat.
Can't wait for todays games :)

padr81

Standouts from day 1 for me were. Taylor (obvious) King, Painter, Part (i fancy both painter and part to beat barney on todays performances), Webster who was very, very good. I think Barney held back at touch on Francis tbh.

Devastator

Devastator wrote: »

Hamilton 50/1 and Beaton/Thornton 66/1 but they offer EW odds of 1/2 for 2 places

:eek: didnt realise until last night(after bets done) that Hamilton and Thornton in same group Also never knew thornton had broken his hand! I remember hearing he hurt his hand, but no idea he broke it.

well both could still beat Wade, depending on which Wade turns up, still a difficult task mind.


Beaton throwing good enough darts in his first game against Co Stompe

Kingp35

Mardle has his business hat on today!

Great win for Darin Young over Lewis, cracking 147 finish.

Wins for Thornton over Hamilton and Steve Beaten over Stompe too so far today.

Devastator

Kingp35 wrote: »

Mardle has his business hat on today!

I thought he looked like he was bricking it, not going well for him so far.

padr81

Whitlock played very well, Wayne needs to be more ruthless around 100. He's scoring better than the last while though

Daffy501

Totally agree , Whitlock was in a different class to Mardle. Super finishing !!

Daffy501

Hankey up next , should be interesting.As i type this he is getting the "who are ya " chant from the crowd lol

padr81

As much as I hate Ted, its ruining his game. PDC crowd again leaving alot to be desired.

padr81

after watching this ****, put my money on Martin McCloskey for Lakeside.

EKRIUQ

What type of reception did Hankey expect ? , if he ever leaves the dark side he's going to have to get used to the crowd baiting him. Makes for more entertaining television. Hankey was off form and Waites took advantage of it.

tippdar

waites and hankey both didnt play well, hankey predictably was booed for the most part, i loved teds reaction during the 7th game and afterwards, he still has a chance of getting through this group. i think whitlock will comfortably win this group

padr81

EKRIUQ wrote: »

What type of reception did Hankey expect ? , if he ever leaves the dark side he's going to have to get used to the crowd baiting him. Makes for more entertaining television. Hankey was off form and Waites took advantage of it.

Its not the point and I agree with everything he said in the interview. A dirty habit in the pdc now is the crowd shouting out when a player is mid throw or about to throw. Boo and cheer all you want between legs but not while a players throwing.
If this happened to Phil Taylor there'd be uproar and Barry Hearn wouldn't be long putting a stop to it.

tippdar

there shouldnt be booing when a player is on a throw, but its part of the game now. like chris mason said, players know what to expect so they should get on with it , even when was bristow was playing there was this type of crowd reaction

EKRIUQ

This was 25 years ago and the crowd seem just as bad, cheering when the players were throwing.

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

sc86

i hope ted planky gets ****ed out, who does he think he is, hes not the best or anywhere near it, he get hard to make the last 16of pdc events