PDC World Darts Championships

First round now out the way which gives a few stats to crunch.

No player looks to be in outstanding form(although Whitlock scored very heavily last night.) I'll do my usual of taking a few players who scored heavily despite shakiness on their doubles on the outrights.

1pts Jones @ 320
1pts Burnett @ 120
1pts Chisnall @ 85
3pts Anderson @ 10

Bottom half of the draw is far kinder than the top, so Anderson and Chisnall have their work cut out. Chisnall can beat Taylor though, while Anderson has a gimme against Peterson. Jones and Burnett both played very well in R1 and have more than winnable games in R2. In the bottom half of the draw both prices look decent.

For tonight the class difference between Jones and Scholten is such that I think Jones will win this with plenty to spare.

1pt Jones 4-0 @ 6.40
1pt Jones 4-1 @ 4.60

4-0 Jones comes up, despite a very wobbly first set!

Wee one for early today:

2pts Jenkins @ 1.38

Jenks wins 4-1.

1pt Burnett @ 1.80

Not much else of interest today, perhaps Chisnall later but the outright is perhaps enough.

Burnett loses, chisnall wins Chizzy now not much better than 9/1 for the title.

Will need to reappraise the outright bets in the morning.

I flicked over just as he went 3-1 up whilst I was on B365's site.
Taylor was 1/2 and Chisnell 7/5 (or might have been 6/5) even with him being 3-1 up.

A few reasonable looking punts today:

Whitlock looked superb in R1, dont think his injury is much of an issue. Beaton threw the lowest R1 average of any winner, Whitlock the highest.

1pts Whitlock 4-0 @ 5.10
1pts Whitlock 4-1 @ 3.90

Rand v Llloyd looks like a coinflip to me - Rand perhaps with a small edge on the finishing but not by much.

1pts Lloyd @ 2.44

Not sure about the R3 matches tonight yet.

Ive followed and gone for Whitlock 4-0 and 4-1
King out with a high score average, alot of big names going out early here

Whitlock started off bad but seems okay now won 5 legs in a row and leads 2-0 if he breaks here on Beaton's first leg its game set and match and probably ends 4-0

And he breaks he's playing well here Beaton looks rubbish tbh

Whitlock has fallen apart here looks like being 2-1 now missed 2 clean darts to go 3-0 up, im on under 10.5 180's now hopefully they start slowing down with them again and Whitlock can somehow break here

Beaton wins 3rd Set Whitlock is a wanker he had numerous chances to finish of the set there useless

Whitlock is losing it again 2-0 up had darts to finish the leg now 2-2 luckily its on his throw here but no doubt he will fuck it up, Beaton is starting to pick it up where as Whitlock is going down

Phew Whitlock just hangs on i cant see him winning this Set if he plays like he has in the last 2 he should of won this 4-0 poor finishing in the last 2 has cost him

Going down to this leg need Beaton to throw 40-60 and Whitlock to hit ton+, Whitlock should of had this wrapped up with a 4-0 win here

Phew Whitlock wins 4-1 he really shouldnt of won that set, under 10.5 180's came in as well just