Topic: [Darts] 2021 PDC World Darts Championship (Read 466 times)

Yeah, I heard it was a short turn around from his rugby career, well at least sort of short compared to how long some of these dart players have been playing.

I'd have to agree for the most part. I know he's caused some drama when losing before, and its always easier to be humble when you win, its when things don't go your way that people tend to let their character shine. Honestly, I know it brings a bit of drama to the game, but I'm not a big fan of the antics. We were discussing early how nice darts is to watch due to the more relaxing atmosphere, but Price has deviated from that in the past. Hopefully, now that hes a winner, he'll quite those antics in the future.

I wasn't able to watch the final live, but according the reviews, the win of Price was well deserved. In just 7 years time, he switched from Rugby professional to become world champion darts, quite impressive!

If all goes well, next edition will be again with a crowd shouting, dancing and drinking all day long  .

This leg between Van Gerwen and Chisnall was the best of the tournament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXqPbwLbu3o

Funny to see Van Gerwen throwing 141 after Chisnall didn't got that 9-darter. 

Also nice that Price has now become the winner, and also the new number 1 in the world. van gerwen is put in his place for a moment. about time, too, that guy got way too big mouth

Yep the spectators making it must more fun to watch. I think also for the players that it makes a big difference.

Price deserved to win this tournament. He was the most stable players this time.

Yep, Anderson digged himself just too much of a hole to make a comeback. He actually started quite well in first set, but missed to check 18 when leading 2-0 in legs and went on to even lose the set. Recovered well in 2nd set, but after that it was all Price basically.
But as @Jackl87 said, it was well deserved, he was leading all statistical categories and Anderson was poor on the doubles with only 26.87% (Price 45.61%). I was mentioning above that Price probably wants it too much, but maybe it was Anderson not wanting it that much in the end having won the WC twice and generally not concentrating 100% on Darts no more.

Lets hope there will be spectators next edition again, I was missing those crazy pictures and the crazy atmosphere during the broadcast

I was actually rooting for Anderson to win it again after all of those commentators talked about him that he should quit and so on.
I also find the behaviour of Price pretty annoying most of the time but it seems to get better with that at least. He just celebrates now and leaves the opponent alone.
Price was just playing great today so he really deserved to win it.

I honestly though Anderson would be taking it home, so I'm actually quite pleased to see a Welsh man take the title. I do believe the first Welsh man in history to bring it home. Although, I'll be honest even with the added element of supporting your nation, I thought Anderson had way to much experience, but I've been pleasantly proven wrong.

Price seemed to be on a massive roll at the beginning, not missing much at all. However, around mid way through we started to see the mistakes creep in, and I thought to myself; "Well, here we go, Anderson with the experience", but he managed to pull through thanks to the early success.

Definitely a mistype there for me.

Agreed. I also think Anderson is the favorite over here, he will have less pressure than price and it seems to be he is fine form. So an odd of 2.16 for Anderson to win is value.

I watched the match of Van Gerwen vs Chisnall and I couldn't believe my eyes. What a fantastic match of Chisnall! I thought that Van Gerwen could maybe make a comeback in set 5 as he was throwing a lot better but Chisnall was just fantastic that night.

All in all it has been a nice championship: we got some surprises and upsets and discovered some new talents as Van Duijvenbode.

So the final will be Anderson vs Price Odds are favouring Price slightly, which I think is wrong. Anderson has been here before and he will not be that nervous, whereas Price for me just wants it too much maybe. This can be a good thing, but against a veteran like Anderson I see it as a disadvantage. The Flying Scotsman is getting stronger and stronger each round; his last wins were all easy (6-3/5-1/4-0), while Price was struggling a lot more. Unlike Bunting/Gurney this Anderson will punish any weaknesses Price shows and this will drive Price crazy.
Otoh Price can, and surely will, play some mind games and Anderson can get distracted easily by (his) antics, like he already showed already in the Suljovic match. So all in all not something for a big bet, but I played Anderson to win @2.16 with medium stakes.

Yep Van Gerwen didn't had any chance. Too bad Van Duijvenbode also lost so we Dutchies haven't any player left to root for.

Chisnall was an underdog and they did not even expect Dave to get a leg which is not a case that happened. Now they are dubbing their previous game one of "GREATEST LEG EVER" in a darts match SPECIALLY AGAINST MVG!!! One does not simply defeat MVG but man, that game is really nerve-wrecking.

It is so cool watching people go crazy about darts. I mean, the first time I learned about darts is when I was a kid and all you have to do is aim for the bullseye which is not an easy task.

Watching tournaments right now is really cool specially when they get that "180" chant. I think I watch that Sherrock moment and it was really a gut punch to most players playing in that tournament haha.

Everybody who betted on Chisnall got a nice profit. He totally destroyed can Gerwen.

I find the results in darts very hard to predict in general because it seems to me like it depends more on the daily form of the individual players than in any others sports.
Just take that match van gerwen vs chisnall yesterday, i guess no one predict an outcome like that.

For todays matches i think a win of Price over Bunting is the safest bet to make because in my opinion price needs to play very bad for his standards to lose against bunting.
In the match Anderson vs. Chisnall anything can happen, it just depends on which one of the two is feeling better today.

Yep, this was unbelievable and probably one of the biggest suprises ever with this scoreline. Chizzy winning 5-0 was something around 100 odds And even when it was 4-0, I still had the feeling Chisnall could implode at any moment and MvG will go on to win this.

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This is not possible, when they meet in semifinal tonight

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Price is around 1.35 tb Bunting and this looks fair. Bunting would need a very good and constant day to reach the final, but I think he is too erratic in the end.

Chisnall vs Anderson is 1.75 2.08 and I think there is small value on Anderson, I would have made him favourite here. For Chisnall this will be a super difficult game today after yesterdays performance, since it can only get worse from here on. But I don't want to bet on the winner here - maybe only if I can get Anderson 3+ inplay - and just placed a bet on over 23.5 total match 180s.

Chisnall has 1.8 180s per set on average throughout this WC, Anderson only 0.95. With 9 or more sets played, this would send it over statistically But I am expecting Anderson to up this stat a bit today and this will also be a close one, so 9 sets might not be enough.

That's true, with most sports athletes usually resembling something of a greek god, its much more comfortable watching a few guys throw a dart at a dart board. I do agree that rivalries are the bread, and butter of a lot of sports, but its nice to be in a sort of more "casual" environment sometimes. The thing is about darts too, is its rarely boring you know what your going to get. Whereas, some sports can be exciting one minute, and then boring for the next 90 minutes, and I think even diehard fans of these sports can admit to that.

Anderson vs Chisnall final I'm guessing. Anderson taking it home.

It's something incredible what Chisnall did today - beating Van Gerwen 5:0 is something unbeleavable. It's probably his best match in whole career. Odds for his win was over 5, maybe someone had stake on him?
Price - Gurney match was also very interesting where all 9 sets were needed to decide winner.
So, now we have semifinals on Saturday:
Chisnall - Anderson
Bunting - Price

So Anderson and Bunting are through to the semifinals. I was a bit late for Bunting and he was cruising right from the beginning, so missed out on the nice odds on him. Took Anderson though and after a shaky start (or good start by vD), he easily won 5-1 in the end. Was just a little bit too much for the Dutchman as expected. Anderson had a 100+ avg, he seems to run hot just at the right time.

Thought some more about tonight games and I came to the conclusion that one of the favs will go out. Chisnall hasn't won against MvG for ages and I don't see him winning today as well; also considering he has never been past the QF here and will surely get nervous once he comes close to it.
Have to bet against Price in consequence, lol. He was good against King, but had some trouble with Dolan and Lewis the rounds before. Gurney was pretty solid thus far, but Price is a different animal of course, and for him it would be his first SF appearance as well. Part of this bet is surely that I can't stand Price, probably more hope than value, lets see


Agree with the non-focus on rivalries, this is all in all a very friendly and easy going atmosphere, though rivalries do add a lot of spice in sports normally. What makes Darts very likeable is that a lot of athletes look like you and me, so it's a bit easier to identify with them. And I guess everyone has thrown a dart in their life in some pub - makes it harder to not adore them for what they are able to do.

Watching this on TV, there is no sports, where you feel such a big part of the attendance; being really inside the crowd with all the crazy things they are normally doing. It's a very good show and they have a very good slot with their Championships every year - there are not a lot of other sports going on during this time of the year.

Anderson was saying yesterday that he's not done much practicing at all, and the next tournament will be one to watch in particular for him. Although, he did very well winning all 4 sets, and although didn't look his absolute best, he definitely looked like a contender. Personally, I think Anderson will get to the final, and his experience will carry him to another win. Three time world champion?


Personally, I believe the audience is what brings the atmosphere which is what makes darts what it is. It has the atmosphere that brings everyone in the room together, and doesn't focus on rivalries as much as other sports.

Anderson is good and I might bet on him in his fight against van Duijvenbode. Also, his experience is a huge factor to be taken that makes him being in the upperhand in this battle. But we still don't know, I am quite amazed with Duijvenbode and he might turn the tables.

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Pardon for being new to this topic, I've just watched Darts recently and it was sooo fun to watch. The feeling of watching it and the chants of audiences seems to be the same with Billiards and other two player games. Definitely following this thread! 

It was a nice match of van den Bergh against Chisnall, but too bad that vdB lost. He had chances in the match but missed too many doubles. In the first 3 sets, Chisnall played extremely good so if he can keep this form, he can maybe surprise van Gerwen.

I don't know about Anderson; I quite like van Duijvenbode and he had a nice comeback against Durrant. Anderson has a lot more experience but will his body hold in long matches?

So van den Bergh lost to Chisnall. I like Chizzy and always thought he underperformed a bit in the WC, so this was a good win for him. Some nice drama between van Duijvenbode/Durrant and Bunting/Searle.

The quarterfinal odds:


Source: https://www.oddsportal.com/darts/world/pdc-world-championship/

A bit surprised with these low odds for Ratajski, looks more 50/50 to me. And I like Andersons odds, because he has been at this stage multiple times, while van Duijvenbode will be super nervous and he didn't convince me against Durrant.

Everything is pointing to a MvG - Price final now, though I can maybe see Anderson beating MvG in semifinal - if both get there

Too bad for Huybrechts, he seemed to be in good form, but still failed again to reach far in the WK.

It was a surprise that Wright went out, Clemens played good darts but Wright missed way too many doubles! I am curious to see how far Clemens can go.
I still like Wright and if we must believe the commentators he seems to be a nice guy.

MvG is through after an easy 4-0 win against Evans. Never seen any player play faster darts than Evans  . Sometimes it seems that he throws too quickly.

Yep, he was his usual poor when it gets to the later stages of the WC. I thought no spectators would help him, but it wasn't that what made him drop out in the past when things got tight^^ Searle played good darts though, so it was a deserved win in the end.

vdB was really good, though the game for Wattimena was probably over, when he had that total brainfairt in the 1st leg He somehow never recovered from that.

Peter Wright just went out against Clemens Happy for the big german and I somehow never liked Wright anyway, but not sure what it is. This loss had some impact on the outright market as well, but not as much as I thought.

Now MvG can go out too please

Too bad but Huybrechts messed it up. He had chances in the 6th set to draw equal but failed.
Another easy win for Vandenbergh. He won 4-0 and again looked super: heavy scoring and big checkouts!

Tonight still Wright and Van Gerwen are playing, but I couldn't really find a good value bet in these matches.

Odds for Huybrechts have come down a bit, which is a good sign, so took him now and parlayed him with van den Bergh, who looked superb in his first match. I just hope Huybrechts doesn't mess up this round already. I don't really trust him, so just a small bet, lets see.

I thought King would play today as well, but it will be only tomorrow. His odds have come down a bit too.

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You can find the pre-tournament odds in first post Odds for MvG dropped of course, because Smith got eliminated in that part of the draw. Same goes for van den Bergh, who sits at 11.00 now at WillHill, coming from 21.00. If I had to place an outright bet, he would probably be my pick right now, if we talk about value bets.

Yeah it is strange to see, I still have plans to once go to the WK just for the atmosphere!
I would be careful to place a bet on Van Gerwen to win. He hasn't had the best season and there are a number of challengers that can also win: Price, Wright, Vandenbergh, ...
Last year in the final, Van Gerwen was the big favorite against Wright but still he lost.

Van Gerwen is the favorite, but he is not as unapproachable as previous years. There was one year when he won everything there was to be won, players like Phil Taylor were also beaten 7-0. he is not in his best period, but has left the bad months behind. Its biggest competitor, Gerwyn Price, hasn't made much of an impression at this tournament so far either.

Darts is really fun sports to watch, but unfortunately, without fans it's different. When people in arena get drunk, atmosphere becomes crazy .
Unfortunately, my countryman Labanauskas is already eliminated, but his game against Whitlock was probably best match in championship so far. His 164 checkout was something epic:
https://twitter.com/OfficialPDC/status/1341398306962980867
Personally, I have no doubts that someone can stop Van Gerwen from winning championship, though I would like to see someone else winning it. I see that odds for his win already dropped to 2.75, maybe it's worthto put stake on him. Unfortunately, I didn't saw initial odds and idn't bet earlier.
P.S. All-green ''outfit'' of Peter Wright looks amazing .

The win of Baggish against Lewis was nice, but Lewis is just not the same anymore as he used to be. Maybe too soon to say, but I think the career of Lewis is over...

I also watched the match against Lennon and Petersen  . My dad was saying that he throws better than these 2 lol. The match of Cross against Van Duijvenbode was nice! What a brilliant check out of 99 of Van Duijvenbode to win the match!

I am following you with Huybrechts tb Searle, maybe I will even take a handicap on Huybrechts.

I am not so familiar on how darts works also especially in doing some bets to it. So in the tournament we are likely to bet if who will win it and the more popular the player is the lesser the odds that the bookmaker will give.

It's kinda interesting, I wonder if there are times that the big odds will be able to win the tournament like for example Jeffrey de Zwaan will win the tournament. The people who bet him will surely to earn a very big amount, or is there any cases that there are also players who purposely loss the match for a certain reason.

Well, he managed another upset yesterday, when he sent former champion Lewis home. And he was super emotional afterwards, because a) he lost his mother this year and b) his brother had a stroke two days ago. With Rob Cross losing as well, there were two big names being eliminated yesterday.
The game between Petersen and Lennon was a real shit show They both missed around 30 times on the double each.....if Lennon would have been a bit more lethal, Petersen would have been out too.

I like Aspinall for today, but a bit too low for a single bet. I don't really trust Smith and Chisnall at these odds under these special circumstances in their first showing. Will maybe take Boulton tb Bunting with it. 

For Sunday I already have my eyes on King tb de Sousa @2.90. Huybrechts tb Searle could be good too.

The Chinese guy Zhuang did manage to make 1 180, which made me lose my bet lol. Huybrechts is through to round 3 after winning from White.
Too bad you didn't place the bet on Baggish, that was some nice value!

Yesterday I saw the match of Vandenbergh vs Lim, which was also a walk over. Vandenbergh was very impressive and if he continues like this, he can reach far!

Hehe, the chinese guy was super nervous and even failed to win a single leg. I noticed Huybrechts often having very good performances in the early rounds, but then laying an egg later on. He often times isn't up for the mental challlenge and the pressure gets to him. Maybe no spectators will help him this year - I hope so, because I always liked him.

Hopp bet lost, King was just rock solid, not a lot you can do then, although the german had some momentum going in sets 3&4.

Nice drama also between Heta and Baggish just moments ago. I thought about placing a bet on Baggish for 5+ prematch, since all favourites won so far today and you normally have at least one dog winning per day (and MvG won't lose^^), but I wasn't brave enough, very annoying

For the moment, that is the biggest shock of the tournament! Today saw the match of Huybrechts against Zhuang; that was just a walk in the park for Huybrechts lol.
Very easy win and Huybrechts had an average of above 100, so he seems to be in fine form! The second round against White, nr 10 of the world, will be a bit more difficult  .

Yesterday saw a huge surprise, when 66y.o. Paul Lim from Singapore beat Luke Humphries as 5+ underdog Thats the nice thing about Darts, no matter how old you are, how fat you are or if you are a heavy smoker, you can still be successful. There are not many sports like that.....

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For today I will place my first real bet and it will be Hopp tb King @2.42. King's record at the PDC WC wasn't super good in the last 10 years, he normally wins a couple of matches and then exits Last 32/64; today will be his first match at this years edition. This bet is more on Hopp than against King, because I liked what I saw in the germans first showing. He always struggled a bit with the freak-ish crowd and all the noise and hectic they created, so there being no crowds this year is certainly helping him. He is still kind of a upcoming talent, though he had some good success in the past, albeit not really in the WC. This year he could make some more noise and the first step would be to beat King today.

For those who wants to see the live feeds of the matches please check their official Facebook page like the page and see the matches as they happen live, Foulkes versus  De Decker is now on.

https://www.facebook.com/ndfpdarts/posts/1551564871704967

Hehe, not anymore, since London is in Tier3 restrictions again, so the Ally Pally was empty already yesterday. But they have some audio playing for TV viewers, which makes it a bit more convenient to watch.....

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Yesterday all favourites won, but three matches were close, going the full distance. Today we have 4 strong favourites and 4 what it looks more balanced encounters:


Source: https://www.oddsportal.com/darts/world/pdc-world-championship/

I don't recognize most of these guys, but my guess would be, that we see 3 players from the right winning today. One just needs to figure out, who these will be, which is the hard part^^

At least there is some people in the room to chant  . I always enjoy watching darts just because of the crazy atmosphere, I still want to watch it live one day!

I am curious to see if Ashton can reach the 2nd round; last year Fallon Sherrock enjoyed her moment of fame becoming the first ever woman to win against a man on the WK.

First day done and we already have one upset when brazilian player Diogo Portela beat Steve "The Bronzed Adonis" Beaton in his record-breaking 30th consecutive participation in the Darts World Championships. Portela was priced at 4.30-ish and won 3-0 in sets

The other results of the day:

West def. Gilitwala 3-0
Smith def. Barry 3-1
Wright def. West 3-1

I actually placed a live bet on Wright, for 1.07 lol, since he looked good and I couldn't imagine him going out in R2 already.

Today there will be an afternoon and evening session, featuring 8 matches in total:


Source: https://www.oddsportal.com/darts/world/pdc-world-championship/

Lets see, if all players on the left will be able to advance, I doubt it

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Here is how it looks in Alexandra Palaca this year, more like a classroom


Source: dazn.com

The fans did behave well more or less. You could hear some chants later in the evening though

I find this part so funny. I guess that the contract signed with Alexandra Palace is to hold the competition for selling alcohol drinks and food. I have checked few articles and found that 1000 spectator will be present in every session but only sit 4 per table without wearing fancy clothes and the obligation to wear a mask every time you sit up. According to this article published few days ago by TheTimes magazine, drinking alcohol is also opened for football fans but not in the stands, only when seated in concourses, auditoriums or hospitality areas .

I don't follow Darts during the year, but over Christmas it's always nice to watch the madness (spectator wise) and the drama (player wise). The madness will be a bit less this year though unfortunately - there will be fans in the Alexandra Palace, but only 1,000 and they are not allowed to wear costumes or sing. I am curious how this will work, since afaik they are allowed to drink alcohol and the more alcohol you drink, the more likely you are to sing or do other weird things

But anyway, as said I am no expert and I usually follow the first days without placing bets. After having seen all players and their performances, I might place a bet here and there, if I see a good one. Maybe we have some dart pros here, who can share their picks or are just interested in discussing things. 

The first matches will start tomorrow and we will already get to see the reigning Champion Peter Wright, who will play his secound round match against West or Gilitwala. Here are the outright odds, taken from William Hill, with MvG being the favourite as always:


Source: https://sports.williamhill.com/betting/en-gb/darts

The draw can be found here. Odds for matches and side markets should be available in basically every bookmaker.

Happy discussing