The Grand Slam of Darts Thread

Any Double !

Jeez ..... 2nd semi pure sh1te

shockframe

fair play to waites.took his chances.hard to get excited over the final with taylor involved though.

Devastator

best value bet of tonight, Taylor to score more 180's at 1/2. Waites is 10/1 if anyone wants to donate to the bookies pocket

sc86

what is wrong with barney, he used to be able to really test taylor when he came over from the bdo first, now hes just another top 10 pdc player that gets hammerd by taylor, its hard to believe its the same person that came back from 3-0 down to beat him in the world championships a few years bk

Any Double !

Devastator wrote: »

best value bet of tonight, Taylor to score more 180's at 1/2. Waites is 10/1 if anyone wants to donate to the bookies pocket

Nice one cheers. Didn't spot that one but I'd just backed Taylor at 9/10 @ -8.5 legs as I can't see Waites getting to 8. I've just had a bit of yours now, it does look great odds. I had just Waites in semi @ 7/4

Devastator

Any Double ! wrote: »

Nice one cheers. Didn't spot that one but I'd just backed Taylor at 9/10 @ -8.5 legs as I can't see Waites getting to 8. I've just had a bit of yours now, it does look great odds. I had just Waites in semi @ 7/4

Tonight will be tough for Waites, he needs to hold his own throw in 12 darts as if Taylor pushes on from today he could be hitting 9,10,11 or 12 dart legs for most of the night.


I didn't really have enough left to justify doing the Taylor 180s bet so threw it in with couple of footie matches tonight aswell (Juventus & Benfica HT & FT winners) and also Valencia to win.

Any Double !

Devastator wrote: »

Tonight will be tough for Waites, he needs to hold his own throw in 12 darts as if Taylor pushes on from today he could be hitting 9,10,11 or 12 dart legs for most of the night.


I didn't really have enough left to justify doing the Taylor 180s bet so threw it in with couple of footie matches tonight aswell (Juventus & Benfica HT & FT winners) and also Valencia to win.

Interesting combination ...good luck, thankfully I'm using bookies money this time ...... for once ......

Devastator

Any Double ! wrote: »

Interesting combination ...good luck, thankfully I'm using bookies money this time ...... for once ......

cheers, good luck to you to. Im not as fortunate, using my own money this weekend :rolleyes::D

I've done far better this weekend in an online gambling game rather than my money bets....:rolleyes:


Final is nearly about to start, lets hope its enjoyable

Kingp35

Waites very unlucky to be 4-1 down, he is throwing great stuff and looks like he is really enjoying himself. Hopefully he can win this session 3-2 and keep himself in the game after that great break of throw there.

EKRIUQ

Kingp35 wrote: »

Waites very unlucky to be 4-1 down, he is throwing great stuff and looks like he is really enjoying himself. Hopefully he can win this session 3-2 and keep himself in the game after that great break of throw there.

Waites averaging over 100 and 5 legs down, looking like another Taylor title to add to his long list of accomplishments

Devastator

Its a good game, just pity Waites seems to be just behind in most legs. Hope he can get a few legs back to keep this game going

greened

stroll in the park for taylor.

Feel so sorry for Waites. He deserved his place in the final, but unfortunately for him he met the Brazil, the Red Rum, the Tiger Woods, the Manny Pacquiao of darts. However for a young player who lets not forget is still amateur he can learn so much from this and with the world championships in a few weeks who is to say! He may get his revenge.

sc86

said on itv waites is considering a offer from the pdc

pity taylor missed the 9 darter, he is unreal but its gettin very boring lookin at taylor matches now, its just a matter of how much he will win by, no excitment of a tight match, its just lookin at taylor showin what a darting master he is, waites probably would beat most lads 2night with the way he played

dionsiseire

i dont understand what these "offers" are

are they gonna offer him a lump sum to change? pay for his entries to certain tournaments?
like most pro's have to pay to join the PDC and pay to enter all the tournaments

so how does this "Offer" work?

dartbhoy

sc86 wrote: »

said on itv waites is considering a offer from the pdc

pity taylor missed the 9 darter, he is unreal but its gettin very boring lookin at taylor matches now, its just a matter of how much he will win by, no excitment of a tight match, its just lookin at taylor showin what a darting master he is, waites probably would beat most lads 2night with the way he played

Rumours had it that Waites was poised to move to the PDC last year but the deal fell through in the last minute. It was a great week for him considering he's had a terrible year form wise in the BDO making early exits to relative unknowns in the various BDO ranked opens and got knocked out of the World Masters by a Fillipino in the last 16. After investing each way bets on Lewis and Hankey i said to myself my darts tips are disastrous but i threw a straight score on Waites Friday night to beat Anderson @ 5/2,happy days!

dartbhoy

dionsiseire wrote: »

i dont understand what these "offers" are

are they gonna offer him a lump sum to change? pay for his entries to certain tournaments?
like most pro's have to pay to join the PDC and pay to enter all the tournaments

so how does this "Offer" work?

As far as i'm aware there's no such thing as an offer joining the PDC,you have to work your way up the rankings like any other player,King,Anderson,Thornton and Webster are an example,they had to start from scratch with the PDC.

dartbhoy

When it comes to so called "offers or deals" for players to switch over from the BDO to the PDC what it means i reckon is getting high profile players from the BDO to sign up a contract to the PDC for so many years with Barry Hearn and the player signing up amongst a big media gathering more so in my view to p**s off the BDO! However i was wrong when i said earlier that when BDO players join up there was no incentives to signing up for some! Barneveld was awarded a place in the Premier League as part of his agreement to join the PDC which didn't go down well with some of the top ranked PDC players at the time and of course last year we had the Russian girl Anastasia controversially awarded a World Championship place last year as part of her agreement to sign up to the PDC.

Degag

dartbhoy wrote: »

and of course last year we had the Russian girl Anastasia controversially awarded a World Championship place last year as part of her agreement to sign up to the PDC.

Didn't anastacia only get a qualifying place and not actually reach the first round proper?

dartbhoy

Degag wrote: »

Didn't anastacia only get a qualifying place and not actually reach the first round proper?

She got a place in the prelimnalry round where she lost to Dutch player Remco Van Eijden 5-3 in legs. She still played on the World stage,in front of the Sky cameras and got the big walk on like the other 69 players that played. Players had done the Tour all the year travelling up and down the UK,in various parts of Europe and even going to USA,Canada and Austraila and missed out on qualifying by £100 or so and they must have been angry then to see Anastasia get an invite without actually doing any of the PDC tour.

Degag

dartbhoy wrote: »

She got a place in the prelimnalry round where she lost to Dutch player Remco Van Eijden 5-3 in legs. She still played on the World stage,in front of the Sky cameras and got the big walk on like the other 69 players that played. Players had done the Tour all the year travelling up and down the UK,in various parts of Europe and even going to USA,Canada and Austraila and missed out on qualifying by £100 or so and they must have been angry then to see Anastasia get an invite without actually doing any of the PDC tour.

Ok, but did she not play in it because she was the Womens World Champion and that the other preliminary players were Champions of their respective countries. Could be wrong here, it got a lot of publicity for the PDC!

Edit:// No, it appears that she got a wild card alright.