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The winners prize money for next year’s worlds increased to £500,000, and more chances to qualify for it

Ultimate Seduction

Jeff Smith confirmed he's going to Q school. Suspect the likes of Durrant, Mitchell and Noppert will too.

marklazarcovic

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Needs to deal with losing better. It happens to everyone.

Should have given a post match interview after his defeat to Cross. Too old now to be sulking.

pretty sure they only interview the winners, after a few were not too impressed being asked stupid questions seconds after losing, makes sense.

FineAle

The World Matchplay Trophy to be renamed, The Phil Taylor trophy.

Let's move on shall we, we get it.

Bob Harris

FineAle wrote: »

The World Matchplay Trophy to be renamed, The Phil Taylor trophy.

Let's move on shall we, we get it.

I think that was an unnecessary move to be honest.

Ultimate Seduction

Think the Naming of trophy's should be left till someone is dead but no doubt it messages Phil's ego

Degag

Would not surprise me to see him announce his comeback before this so he could try to win his own trophy:rolleyes:

Ultimate Seduction

I wonder with the announcement of more players at the next world championship, could they include a wild card pick or some similar sly sky move

Inquitus

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

I wonder with the announcement of more players at the next world championship, could they include a wild card pick or some similar sly sky move

They could, but surely if Taylor has a year off from darts, unless he trains his bollox off prior to the World Champs he wouldn't be throwing well?

marklazarcovic

He's done lads,he can't take loosing so ain't coming back

DEFTLEFTHAND

Separate the character from the player. He won 16 Matchplay titles.

Can't think of a more fitting name for the trophy.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Jeff Smith confirmed he's going to Q school. Suspect the likes of Durrant, Mitchell and Noppert will too.

Can't see Mitchell going.

With Durrant it depends on how goes in Lakeside.


He was saying last month if he reaches the semis, final' winner that he'll honour the BDO contract he signed for the worlds.


Noppert should give it a go, young and has a decent game that could only improve with going full time.

peteeeed

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Separate the character from the player. .

how?

marklazarcovic

peteeeed wrote: »

how?

One is a pointy prick one throws a pointy prick

Inquitus

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Can't see Mitchell going.

With Durrant it depends on how goes in Lakeside.


He was saying last month if he reaches the semis, final' winner that he'll honour the BDO contract he signed for the worlds.


Noppert should give it a go, young and has a decent game that could only improve with going full time.

I think the contract withholds the prize money to ensure that you don't jump ship to the PDC Qualifying School, so that is probably why...

peteeeed

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Can't see Mitchell going.

With Durrant it depends on how goes in Lakeside.


He was saying last month if he reaches the semis, final' winner that he'll honour the BDO contract he signed for the worlds.


Noppert should give it a go, young and has a decent game that could only improve with going full time.

Cameron Menzies might be courted after his performance at the Grand slam both personality and play

DEFTLEFTHAND

Jamie 'Yozza' Hughes also looks to be going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BttP-Y0MsVQ

DEFTLEFTHAND

Inquitus wrote: »

I think the contract withholds the prize money to ensure that you don't jump ship to the PDC Qualifying School, so that is probably why...

I often wonder is that contract worth the paper it's written on. I couldn't see it standing up in court.

Bunting left after winning in 2014 and received his £100,000 as far as I know.

mdwexford

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I often wonder is that contract worth the paper it's written on. I couldn't see it standing up in court.

Bunting left after winning in 2014 and received his £100,000 as far as I know.

Always thought the same.

I'd be shocked if that contract exists and is legally binding.

PTH2009

Wolfie jumped ship a few yewrs ago and it didn't work out and he's making good £££ in the BDO

Inquitus

PTH2009 wrote: »

Wolfie jumped ship a few yewrs ago and it didn't work out and he's making good £££ in the BDO

To make good money in the BDO you need to be hitting the Top 4 at least in every major BDO tourney no? The prize money doesn't go deep and very few Tournies have that much? I mean of the 300k for the BDO World's, 100k goes to the winner......

sc86

PTH2009 wrote: »

Wolfie jumped ship a few yewrs ago and it didn't work out and he's making good £££ in the BDO

in 2001 in played some pdc - 16 years ago
hes made next to nothing for last 3 years
2500 from the pdc grand slam was his top payday over 3 years - thats good money is it?

the money in the bdo is terrible - most events are 4 or 5k to winner

Inquitus

sc86 wrote: »

in 2001 in played some pdc - 16 years ago
hes made next to nothing for last 3 years
2500 from the pdc grand slam was his top payday over 3 years - thats good money is it?

the money in the bdo is terrible - most events are 4 or 5k to winner

Aye with 100k to the winner of the BDO Worlds and only 35k to the runner up, I reckon its impossible to even make £50k in the year unless you make the final of the worlds, or have a good run in the Grandslam of Darts, with the likelyhood being you would make substantially less than £50k even if you went deep in all the big tournaments.

sc86

yes and factor in the money its cost travelling to these events etc

thats why they are all full time employed

Degag

The dude playing now Justin Thompson's wiki page:pac:

"Justin also won the Budapest water volley ball championships while acting like a dinosaur and trying not to get wet. Justin also won the 2017 Budapest karaoke competition and has a vast array of fidget spinners which he uses to dazzle the ladies."

Inquitus

Good website here that shows the prize money won in the BDO, looking at 2017, here's the top 50. So it clearly shows you can't make any money of note unless you make the final of the BDO Worlds. As mentioned in the thread above, travel expenses have to come out of this so it's clear that you would most certainly need a full time job to supplement your income in most cases - http://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/PlayerStats.aspx

Rank Player Country Prize
1 Glen Durrant England £112,268
2 Danny Noppert Netherlands £42,663
3 Krzysztof Ratajski Poland £31,943
4 Mark McGeeney England £28,196
5 Jamie Hughes England £26,691
6 Scott Mitchell England £21,938
7 Darryl Fitton England £18,379
8 Geert de Vos Belgium £17,084
9 Scott Waites England £15,252
10 Ross Montgomery Scotland £14,144
11 Jim Williams Wales £14,103
12 Martin Phillips Wales £13,654
13 James Hurrell England £11,924
14 Darius Labanauskas Lithuania £11,705
15 Wesley Harms Netherlands £11,451
16 Peter Machin Australia £11,268
17 Cameron Menzies Scotland £11,210
18 Richard Veenstra Netherlands £10,375
19 Martin Adams England £10,138
20 Willem Mandigers Netherlands £9,847
21 Conan Whitehead England £7,802
22 Jeffrey Sparidaans Netherlands £7,702
23 Tony O Shea England £7,595
24 Kyle McKinstry Northern Ireland £7,373
25 Nick Kenny Wales £7,200
26 Dean Reynolds Wales £7,118
27 Andy Baetens Belgium £7,088
28 Paul Hogan England £7,084
29 Jeff Smith Canada £6,864
30 Wouter Vaes Netherlands £5,499
31 Justin van Tergouw Netherlands £5,443
32 Dave Cameron Canada £5,051
33 Phil Blackwell England £4,500
34 Mark McGrath New Zealand £4,449
35 Martin Atkins England £4,407
36 Brian Dawson England £4,305
37 Yoeri Duijster Netherlands £4,024
38 Mark Layton Wales £3,996
39 Daniel Day England £3,984
40 Dave Parletti England £3,935
41 Scott Baker England £3,773
42 Chris Landman Netherlands £3,761
43 Seigo Asada Japan £3,750
44 Andy Fordham England £3,736
45 Gary Robson England £3,732
46 Derk Telnekes Netherlands £3,539
47 Ryan Joyce England £3,530
48 Dennis Harbour England £3,485
49 Tom Sawyer USA £3,445
50 Davy van Baelen Belgium £3,314

Inquitus

Here's the PDC for comparison

Rank Player Country Prize
1 Michael van Gerwen Netherlands £1,400,320
2 Peter Wright Scotland £740,303
3 Gary Anderson Scotland £509,105
4 Daryl Gurney Northern Ireland £367,000
5 Phil Taylor England £359,142
6 Raymond van Barneveld Netherlands £321,392
7 Mensur Suljovic Austria £303,250
8 Dave Chisnall England £273,892
9 James Wade England £228,392
10 Rob Cross England £225,750
11 Simon Whitlock Australia £222,000
12 Adrian Lewis England £212,250
13 Michael Smith England £198,750
14 Gerwyn Price Wales £195,553
15 Kim Huybrechts Belgium £169,500
16 Jelle Klaasen Netherlands £162,250
17 Kyle Anderson Australia £147,000
18 Ian White England £145,000
19 Alan Norris England £140,250
20 Benito van de Pas Netherlands £131,250
21 Joe Cullen England £124,000
22 Darren Webster England £117,000
23 Johnny Clayton Wales £112,500
24 Mervyn King England £109,000
25 Steve Beaton England £99,250
26 Stephen Bunting England £99,250
27 Cristo Reyes Spain £98,000
28 John Henderson Scotland £94,250
29 Justin Pipe England £88,250
30 Robert Thornton Scotland £87,250
31 Mark Webster Wales £83,250
32 Steve West England £66,750
33 Ronny Huybrechts Belgium £64,000
34 Christian Kist Netherlands £63,500
35 Dimitri van den Bergh Belgium £62,750
36 Vincent van der Voort Netherlands £59,000
37 Chris Dobey England £58,500
38 James Wilson England £55,750
39 Max Hopp Germany £49,000
40 Richard North England £49,000
41 Jermaine Wattimena Netherlands £48,250
42 Jan Dekker Netherlands £46,250
43 Kevin Painter England £42,750
44 Brendan Dolan Northern Ireland £42,500
45 Robbie Green England £39,250
46 Zoran Lerchbacher Austria £38,500
47 Steve Lennon Ireland £37,500
48 Martin Schindler Germany £37,500
49 Corey Cadby Australia £36,750
50 Willie O Connor Ireland £36,750

Ultimate Seduction

Johnny Clayton 112000 wow.

Inquitus

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Johnny Clayton 112000 wow

Aye he got £40k for making the final of the Players Championship, and scored a few £10ks here and there, plus a bunch of small change to make up the total.

http://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?playerKey=6861

Ultimate Seduction

Love this, the list of fines for 2017

Justin Pipe fined 3000 for the coughing incident.

Some mad ones on the list

https://t.co/Fco8tIUxqz?amp=1