Please tell me someone screen grabbed that??? The sign...

What happened?

paul hogan on 68...

single 20.. ok

single 18.. hmm??

then goes for bullseye,

how can someone play darts for so long and be so terrible at math

Man, I would just put it down to a brainfart. They happen, it isn't a complete disaster.

My favourite is still Devon Peterson hitting D16 with 42 to get and celebrating (in the World Cup vs Scotland IIRC).

Found it (vs Wales, not Scotland). Shame because this clip doesn't show him celebrating the outshot like he did at the time.

Maybe the guy thought he had 88 and not 68? To be fair, they don't make that many blunders like that but the odd one is understandable.

I always laugh when I see Sad Face Burnett. It's got to be a bummer to have a frown as your normal face.

Would he go 18 after 20 on 88? I have no idea I am not good enough to know about finishes. Takes me 50 darts for 501 haha.

well 68 and 2 darts left it would make a lot of sense to go for T18

I'd personally go as near to the double as you can without risking going outside, but yeah, he's trying to leave the bull if he hits a single

Really have no idea how Waites can win this final. His game against Unterbuchner was terrible and I'm thinking a fair line should be 40/1 rather than 11/4

So Durrant gets the 3-peat, and will surely get a card at Q-School, looks like Waites, Williams and McGeeney are all registered so it basically just leaves Unterbuchner, old guys and people that failed Q-School in the BDO, got to wonder if this'll be the last year that they run the Grand Slam under current terms. I'd personally be happy for them to cut it back to four BDO spots for their current Lakeside/Ladies Worlds/World Masters/World Trophy winners with countback on rankings (or drop to the Finder Masters, Dutch Open etc) if/when someone binks more than one.

Because if you have 68 left with two darts then single 18 leaves a shot at the bull, and treble 18 leaves double 7. Not sure if it's standard but if your opponent is on a finish then it seems OK to me. Who knows what he thought though.

The worst thing to me is splitting doubles though. How any pro can do that is a mystery to me.

A bunch of that's going to depend on the situation in the leg and how someone's darts land in the board. I'd have no problem with someone like Adie splitting 14 as if he misses outside he's almost certainly blocking, similar with Phil if he'd left 10

I don't get that at all - double 7 is right by double 16 so how can you play for double 16 routinely if the angle of the darts/blocking is such a factor?

Even if there is a marginal factor there (which it can only be given the size of the double), giving up one dart at least with 100% certainty is a huge premium. If robots played darts, with the same flight trajectory as human players, but with perfect strategy then I'd be prepared to bet that they never ever split doubles.

The only way it makes sense to me if if a player is so worried about hitting a single 7, or whatever, that if badly impacts on their aim. This may actually be the case but it's a real sign of weakness and I'd love it if I was a real player and I saw someone do this against me.

Jamie Hughes, Harry Ward, Mark McGeeney and Scott Baker have blinked cards on day 1/2 of Q-School, Durrant's ****ed it up in the last 128 both days and will need two deep runs or to win one outright at this stage

Durrant has a card, got to the final yesterday and deep enough today to be safe. Williams missed out by 2-3 wins, Waites wasn't close, Ashton nearly got a card but needed another couple of wins. They're just finishing off the final day now, Painter is there but is win or busto against Kirk Shepherd (remember him?)

Edit - Shepherd wins, he had a card on countback already but lol Painter, I think that gives Barrie Bates a card seeing how we're going full ten years ago

What's next Colin Lloyd returns?

Banstick unfortunately not put on Price for the Grand Slam

https://www.pdc.tv/news/2019/01/23/d...l_kgDRpQnXmu8o

It does seem that they've wussed out by putting Ando/Price in the Premier League as far away from Scotland as is possible outside of Berlin

Anderson has pulled out from the Masters this weekend. Bunting in in his place. They for some reason didn't reshuffle, so Bunting is just the 4th seed now.

When Michael van Gerwen wants to go showboating then there are few who can stop him from doing it. A 170 finish in the semi-final against Dave Chisnall and another 170 finish against James Wade in the final. MvG wins the final 11-5.

Possibly not a great start to the year to that guy that keeps laying MvG ante-post but MvG will have lulls and can't win every tournament he's in.

Dutch Open final was decent, it was streamed on YouTube by regional Dutch telly so you should be able to catch up. The kid that won the under 14s looked a great prospect, albeit over 3 legs

Pop quiz - while the Dutch Open is a BDO/WDF, it's still a fairly important one, if Veenstra won the final, he'd be the first Dutch player to win it since who?

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