Premier League Darts 2022 Night 2 Betting Tips And Predictions

Premier League Darts 2022 Night 2 Betting Tips And Predictions

Week one of the new look Darts Premier League saw Peter Wright put in a commanding performance to win the first mini-tournament and claim five points for the table.

Cardiff was the setting as Snakebite averaged 133 in the final to beat local favourite Jonny Clayton, who now collects three points for the table to occupy second place in this PDC event.

Despite posting such a high average, the league leader still complained about his darts and claims he will carry on switching them.

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Points on the night also went to the two losing semi-finalists James Wade and Gary Anderson, with nothing so far awarded to Gerwyn Price or Michael van Gerwen.

But what can we expect from Night Two in Liverpool when some of the best darts players go head to head? Looking for 2022 premier league darts night 3 betting tips? Get the latest picks, predictions and preview of the festivities.

What’s previously happened at the 2022 Darts Premier League:

Night 1
Night 3
Night 4

Peter Wright v Michael van Gerwen

The evening gets underway with Peter Wright taking on Michael van Gerwen.

Mighty Mike is still seeking his first points after his opening day defeat to Gary Anderson.

World champion Wright opened up his campaign by averaging 100 against a disappointing Michael Smith in a repeat of the Ally Pally final, before seeing off Anderson 6-5 in the semi-finals.

On current form, Snakebite looks to have the edge, having won their past three matches and by quite sizeable margins too.

The Scotsman was in hot form last week in Wales following a shift from his “fat” darts and, even though he is likely to change gear again, a fourth successive victory could be on the cards here.

In all, Wright has lost just three of his last 35 matches and looked red hot in the Welsh capital. You would expect to see him beat Michael van Gerwen, who cannot buy a win right now.

Snakey will face the winner of match two between Jonny Clayton and Michael Smith.

Jonny Clayton v Michael Smith

Jonny Clayton opened up his defence of his Premier League title with two impressive wins before being outplayed by Snakebite in last week’s final.

Michael Smith, on the other hand, simply never got started but, like Clayton last week, has what is basically a home crowd behind him this time around.

Unusually, Bully Boy didn’t land a single 180 in week one, while Clayton, despite being overwhelmed in the final, looked in good shape as he saw off Joe Cullen and James Wade with relative ease.

Smith needs to seriously up his game if he is to get the better of the Ferret who looks the favourite to move into the last four unless Bully Boy rediscovers his best form in time.

James Wade v Joe Cullen

The other side of this week’s draw opens with James Wade and Premier League of Darts debutant Joe Cullen facing off.

Wade pulled off an opening night upset as he took the points over the world number one and home favourite Gerwyn Price in a match where neither player hit an average above 90, although the Machine did pin three 100+ checkouts.

Cullen was dismissed with ease by Jonny Clayton on his first Premier League appearance a week ago but has beaten Wade three times in the four occasions they have met since 2018 and won’t have a hostile crowd against him this week.

With last week’s experience behind him, we can expect a close match with the Rockstar, who did shoot five 180s and a 102 checkout on his solitary DPL appearance, just about edging it so long as he improves on his doubles.

Gerwyn Price v Gary Anderson

The last quarter-final of the night sees Gerwyn Price take on Gary Anderson.

The Flying Scotsman has points on the board after beating Michael van Gerwen 6-4 last week.

Anderson averaged just 91 compared to his opponent’s 96 but took the victory due to being better at the doubles as MVG missed six out of ten.

The Iceman has won four out of their last five encounters but will need to do much better if he is to continue the streak.

Last week in Cardiff, Price looked nothing less than flat, possibly weighed down by expectation in front of his own fans, while Anderson can take heart from beating van Gerwen before a narrow defeat to eventual winner Peter Wright in a deciding semi-final leg.

Price is likely to return to being the boo boy and pantomime villain. While he is unlikely to enjoy the reception, it does seem to bring the best out of him, which will be important as must surely get some points on the board this week before his campaign derails.

Should Price progress he could have a chance to get revenge on James Wade — if the Machine overcomes Joe Cullen — which could lead to an all Welsh final with the Iceman claiming all five points and the cash to finally get his title challenge up and running.

bet365 darts betting prices

Peter Wright (8/13) V (13/10) Michael van Gerwen

Jonny Clayton (4/6) V (6/5) Michael Smith

James Wade (6/5) V (4/6) Joe Cullen

Gerwyn Price (4/9) V (7/4) Gary Anderson

Premier League of Darts Table

PlayerNights WonMatches WonLeg DifferencePoints
Peter Wright1395
Jonny Clayton0213
Gary Anderson0112
James Wade0112
Michael van Gerwen00-20
Michael Smith00-30
Gerwyn Price00-30
Joe Cullen00-40

QUICK GLANCE AT THE PREMIER LEAGUE OF DARTS WEEK 2

Venue: M & S Arena, Liverpool

Dates:  10/02/2022

Format: Best of 11 legs (first to six)

Current Champion: Jonny Clayton

Where To Watch: Sky Sports Main Event HD & Sky Sports Arena HD

When To Watch: 19:00 UK

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Top 5 Most Prestigious Darts Tournaments

Top 5 Most Prestigious Darts Tournaments

PDC Darts Tournaments

In a normal year, darts tournaments are running most weeks meaning there is pretty much always something going on and darts bets to make.

But the game has been running on a bit of a broken and beaten schedule for the past few seasons and it’s easy to lose track of which tourneys are the biggest and most prestigious in the game.

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So, for those new to the sport or for experienced bettors simply looking to refresh here is a quick run-through of the best tournaments that darts has to offer.

With an uncomplicated scoring system and a simple list of rules, darts must be one of the easiest sports to start following. After all, “It’s just fat blokes throwing arrows at a board.”

There really is no need for you to be an expert on all things tungsten to get involved with darts betting as you can pick things up pretty quickly.

Here then are the top 5 most prestigious darts tournaments.

PDC Grand Slam of Darts

PDC Grand Slam Of Darts

The darting highlight of November and the last big tourney before the almighty World Championships are held in December, the PDC Grand Slam of Darts was a darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation that originally encouraged entries from the British Darts Organisation (BDO). This agreement folded when the BDO collapsed into liquidation in 2020.

Since 2015, the PDC have given this event ranking status. The event is held each year in Wolverhampton, for the most part at Wolverhampton Civic Hall and later, temporarily, at Aldersley Leisure Village. Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor is the event’s most successful ever player with six wins.

It was actually Stoke-born Taylor that won the first three Grand Slam titles, beating Andy Hamilton, Terry Jenkins, and Scott Waites in the first three ever finals. Michael van Gerwen won this event three times in a row from 2015 through 2017 after which Gerwyn Price won back-to-back titles, the only two so far to be held at Aldersley Leisure Village.

Grand Slam participation is made up of finalists from the PDC’s televised events over a 12 month period. Ten of these places have already been taken and there are only four tournaments – The World Cup of Darts, World Grand Prix, European Championship and World Series of Darts – remaining.

If all 16 places have not been filled from those televised events then winners from the PDC’s European Tour and Players Championship events can receive entry into the Grand Slam. There will also be eight players selected from the PDC Tour Card Holder Qualifiers, plus UK and European Challenge and Development Tour Orders of Merit, as well as two Women’s Series qualifiers.

Venue: Aldersley Leisure Village, Wolverhampton

Format: Best of 9 legs, 19 legs and 31 legs

Current champion: Jose De Sousa (Portugal)

Most successful darter: Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor (6 wins)

Prize money: £550,000

PDC World Grand Prix

PDC World Grand Prix Darts

The World Grand Prix is a PDC darts tournament that takes place each October in Dublin, Ireland. The event has been held in Ireland since 2000 when it was originally held at the Crosbie Cedars Hotel in Rosslare, County Wexford. A year later, the tournament was moved to the Citywest in Dublin.

When the World Grand Prix was launched in 1998, it was designed to replace the World Pairs tournament, which only lasted for three seasons. The most successful player in this event is, unsurprisingly, Phil Taylor, who claimed this crown a record 11 times. That said, The Power was actually knocked out in round one five times during his career.

Venue: Citywest, Dublin

Format: Best of 3 sets, 5 sets, 11 sets, 13 sets and 15 sets

Current champion: Gerwyn Price (Wales)

Most successful darter: Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor (11 wins)

Prize money: £450,000

PDC Premier League of Darts

PDC World Darts

The third part of the darts triple crown, the Darts Premier League traditionally gets going in February to help kick the darts season, which begins with the Darts Masters at the end of January. The action takes place weekly until May when the play offs are held at the O2 in London. 

When the tournament was launched in 2005, the event was contested by seven players in a series of fortnightly fixtures. Today, there are ten players involved each year, drawn from the top four players in the PDC Order of Merit plus six wildcard selections.

For the first round, event nights are staged in various venues across the UK and Ireland, plus now there are some European nights too. The players all take on each other over these fixtures with earned points being added to the ten-man table. On Judgment Night (around night nine), the two bottom-based players will be eliminated from the tournament while the remaining eight players attempt to qualify for the London play offs, which take place over the May bank holiday.

There have been six overall winners of the Premier League so far in its history. Phil Taylor has dominated the Premier League, winning six out of the thirteen tournaments he starred in and actually went unbeaten in his first three seasons. Taylor eventually lost to James Wade after 44 matches.

Michael van Gerwen has also won the event multiple times with five wins to his name. James Wade, Gary Anderson, Raymond van Barneveld, Glen Durrant and Jonny Clayton are the other players to lift the Premier League of Darts trophy. 

Venue: Numerous host cities, London play offs

Format: Best of 12, 19 and 21 legs

Current champion: Jonny Clayton (Wales)

Most successful darter: Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor (6 wins)

Prize money: £825,000

PDC World Matchplay

PDC World Matchplay

Dart’s second-largest event and part of the Darts Triple Crown, the prestigious PDC World Matchplay is held in Blackpool each year in July. This is another event that is famed for the fans who really make it what it is inside the Winter Gardens, its home since its inaugural event in 1994. The tournament itself is built around a legs format and is the third of seven ranking events of the year.

The field is made up of 32 darters, 16 of which are the highest-ranked in the game. These are then joined by 16 unseeded ProTour Order of Merit qualifiers. When the event was first held, it was won by an American darter called Larry ‘The Bald Eagle’ Butler, who won against Dennis Priestley 16–12 in the first-ever final back in 1994. 

In 1997, Phil Taylor won the Matchplay for the first time and would go on to collect a trophy haul of 16 Matchplay titles over his career, some 14 more than Rod Harrington and Michael van Gerwen, who have two wins each. Following The Power’s retirement in 2017, the PDC renamed the Matchplay trophy the Phil Taylor Trophy in honour of the completion’s record-breaking champion. 

Venue: Winter Gardens, Blackpool 

Format: First to 10 legs, 11 legs, 16 legs, 17 legs and 18 legs 

Current champion: Peter Wright (Scotland)

Most successful darter: Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor (16 wins)

Prize money: £700,000

PDC World Championship

PDC World Championships

The biggest, loudest, messiest and most lucrative darts tournament on earth and one that has established itself as essential British Christmas viewing, the PDC World Championship takes place each year in mid-December and finishes sometime around the new year lasting for around three weeks. 

The action comes from North London’s Alexandra Palace, known lovingly by darts fans as the Ally Pally, which has been home to the tournament since 2008, and basically acts as an inebriated celebration of all things darts at that special time of year. The atmosphere in the crowd is strictly party time but on the oche, fierce rivalries emerge as the world’s best darters slug it out for the biggest prize in the sport.

Around 96 players enter the event in the hope for winning the Sid Waddell Trophy, which is named in honour of the legendary darts commentator Sid Waddell who passed away in 2012.

The tournament is the final leg of the Darts Triple Crown and dates back to 1994 as a result of the split in darts, which saw the eventual emergence of the PDC. The PDC was born out of the World Darts Council following their break from the now defunct BDO.

Over the years, there have been ten different winners of the World Championships including one-time winners Dennis Priestley, Raymond van Barneveld, Rob Cross, Peter Wright and Gerwyn Price, who won in 2021. There are also two times winners John Part, Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson, plus three times winner Michael van Gerwen.

No one has won this tournament more than the now retired Phil Taylor who, in 25 appearances, took the crown a stunning 14 times, to go with his two alternative world titles.

Venue: Alexandra Palace, London

Format: Best of 5 sets, 7 sets, 9 sets, 11 sets and 13 sets

Current champion: Gerwyn Price (Wales)

Most successful darter: Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor (14 wins)

Prize money: £2.5 million

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2020 Darts Premier League Play-Offs Betting Tips

2020 Darts Premier League Play-Offs Betting Tips

2020 Darts Premier League

OK, so it’s not May, we’re not looking forward to the summer and it’s not taking place in London’s O2 Arena, but at long, long last the Darts Premier League has reached the playoff stage. 

For London’s docklands, read Coventry’s Ricoh Arena and for live and noisy crowd– read: fake piped in atmospheric cheers — but hey after this most horrible of years, let’s be thankful for some top-level PDC darts at its finest.

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A look at the final matches

Fresh off the back of the World Grand Prix, which only finished on Monday, bringing yet another PDC major for the new world number two Gerwyn Price. We have another top PDC award up for grabs as Thursday sees the complete final night of Premier League Darts 2020.

Price will not be there sadly, his league form poor enough to only render a fifth-place finish, one ahead of Michael van Gerwen who also misses out. The absence of the world’s top two should offer hope for the remaining four, which includes World Champion Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright

As well as Peter Wright, the remaining four include table topper Glen Durrant, Gary Anderson and Nathan Aspinall. The two semi-finals will be played over the best of 19 legs each.

The first semi-final is between Glen Durrant and Gary Anderson, leaving Peter Wright to face Nathan Aspinall in number two. 

As noted, Durrant ended the group stage on the top of the table making him only the third darter to do so in the tournament’s 15-year history, while Anderson is the only former Premier League champion left in the competition.

Before we look at the semis in greater detail, the outright prices from bet365 for the 2020 Darts Premier League are as follows.

As the highest-ranked player in the tourney, world number three Peter Wright is worth 13/8, ahead of Gary Anderson at 11/4. Glen Durrant is a sizeable 7/2 given his dominance thus far and Nathan Aspinall at 10/3 is also very generous. Given that it really isn’t very hard to imagine a Durrant/Aspinall final, those prices are indeed tempting.

Glen Durrant V Gary Anderson

Earlier in the competition, Durrant beat Anderson 7-4 in week three while the pair drew the rematch 7-7 in Week 11.

Could this be the night where Anderson is victorious? Possibly. I mean the guy is a two-times world champion and is capable of showing glimpses of his previous levels even if the Scottish veteran’s game is generally slowing down these days.

He remains one of the finest darters of all time and last week made it to the last eight of the World Grand Prix, averaging 90 along the way.

In contrast, Durrant had an atrocious Grand Prix, dropping out in round one at the hands of Dave Chisnall, citing technical issues whatever that means. Duzza has been messing around with his flights and will hopefully have settled on a set come Thursday if he is get the reward his Premier League form deserves.

Duzza has been the Premier League’s best player so far this season, but Gary has the titles, PDC at least, so it is a tough one to call. I’m backing Durrant in this one, however, providing he makes his mind up about those darts on time.

Peter Wright v Nathan Aspinall

On the two occasions these two met in the earlier rounds, Snakebite won both and with more than a little bit of breathing room too, averaging 106. Given this, he should be happy with the draw. The Asp was going great guns prior to the shutdown but hasn’t been in the best form since the live restart.

Like Durrant, both Wright and Aspinall exited the World Grand Prix in the first round. Aspinall busted out in round one of the Matchplay too, albeit to eventual winner Dimitri van den Bergh

On form, Wright should take this despite a disappointing World Grand Prix, but the Asp can be very dangerous and might have the bigger of two snake bites here.

QUICK GLANCE AT DARTS PREMIER LEAGUE PLAY-OFFS 

Venue: Ricoh Arena, Coventry

Dates: 15.10.2020

Format: Best of 19, 21

Current Champion: Michael van Gerwen

Where To Watch: Sky Sports Arena

When To Watch: (1900 GMT)

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