We are pleased to be able to offer the Darts tips of Lockup Tipster. Lockup Tipster is one of the best Darts Tipsters Online and we are lucky to have him offering his tips to Betting Portal. This week is the European Darts Championships which is shown live on ESPN and ESPN Classic.
We enter the autumn season of Darts after the summer break with some exciting tourneys in front of us. Four more televised events before the end of the year, including the infamous World Championships.
The European Championships were devised in 2008, and Phil Taylor has won this every year. En route to his four victories include beaten finalists Steve Beaton, Adrian Lewis twice and Wayne Jones.
PHIL TAYLOR will begin his challenge to win a fifth successive PartyPoker.net European Championship title against Magnus Caris when the £200,000 tournament is staged in Muelheim, Germany later this month.
Taylor has been unstoppable since the European Championship was introduced to the PDC calendar in 2008, winning all four titles since by picking up two defeats of Adrian Lewis and wins over Steve Beaton and Wayne Jones in the other finals.
This year’s event will be held from September 20-23 in Muelheim and screened live on ESPN, with the first round being split across Thursday and Friday night.
Taylor’s opening clash will see him come up against Swedish number one Magnus Caris on Thursday September 20, with emerging Dutchman Jerry Hendriks or leading Austrian Mensur Suljovic awaiting the winner in the second round.
World Champion Adrian Lewis will face Stoke rival Ian White in the first round on Friday night in a repeat of their meeting on Sunday night in the German Darts Masters final in Sindelfingen, which Lewis won 6-3.
World number three James Wade drew former World Matchplay champion Colin Lloyd, while Wes Newton, the number four seed, plays Germany’s Tomas Seyler.
Number five seed Andy Hamilton drew Paul Nicholson, Simon Whitlock plays Mark Walsh, Terry Jenkins faces five-time World Champion Raymond van Barneveld and Mark Webster plays Germany’s Andree Welge – who won their German Darts Masters first round game 6-4 despite a nine-darter from the Welshman on Friday.
With only eight players seeded, the draw threw together a host of big names, including Mervyn King’s battle with Players Championship Finals winner Kevin Painter and Dutch star Vincent van der Voort’s clash with Belgian Kim Huybrechts, who made his name with a run to the quarter-finals of last year’s European Championship.
Justin Pipe drew last year’s World Grand Prix runner-up Brendan Dolan, World Matchplay semi-finalist Ronnie Baxter plays Germany’s Michael Rosenauer, Holland’s Michael van Gerwen plays Andy Smith, Dave Chisnall meets another young Dutchman, Gino Vos, and Richie Burnett meets Co Stompe.
The second round of the tournament will be played on Saturday September 22, with the quarterfinals taking place on Sunday afternoon and the semi-finals and final being held in the evening session.
Most bookies go 1/2 for E/W outright bets. Please check before betting.
First round betting odds:
Jerry Hendriks (11/10) Mensur Suljovic (10/11)
Mark Webster (4/9) Andree Welge (21/10)
Justin Pipe (1/2) Brendan Dolan (45/23)
Andy Hamilton (10/13) Paul Nicholson (23/18)
Simon Whitlock (2/5) Mark Walsh (5/2)
Wes Newton (3/10) Tomas Seyler (10/3)
Phil Taylor (1/12) Magnus Caris (10)
Mervyn King (11/17) Kevin Painter (22/15)
Being a best of 11 format, there is no rest bite for any player, a straight knockout, no second chances.
Looking at the eight matches on offer, initial strong candidates are:
Pipe
Hamilton
Whitlock
Newton
King
Of course Taylor should make it through, but his odds are incredibly short, seeing as the first round short format is where he is most vulnerable. The field all know this.
Pipe has played Dolan three times and twice in 2011 where he won both times. He is in respect 12-3 in legs up over the last two games, both in the best of 11 format. Pipe was incredible on the floor last year and began the year with a victory. He recently made a semi final, and this format suits him. Justin and Brendan have similar experience on the stage, but feel, that Dolan misses too many doubles, and Pipe is a great price at 1/2.
Newton should beat Seyler. The stats suggest that Seylor has beaten Newton 2-1, but two of those matches were best of five matches, so cannot be considered reliable. The fact that was in 2008 says it all. They have played in a similar format to this in 2010 in Gibraltar, where Newton was the victor. Newton is far more experienced playing nearly 1100 matches to Seylors 133 matches. Newton’s win percentage is 68.2% with Seylors 45.86 percent – http://www.dartsmad.com/dartabase/darts_player_head_to_head.aspx
Newton is best priced 3/10 at Bwin for this and is 5/6 –2.5, which is not worth risking, but the outright price is about right for your accumulators.
Whitlock will be expected to beat Walsh, who was out of sort at the Matchplay. The pair have played eleven times, with Whitlock winning seven from the eleven. Whitlock beat Walsh this last Saturday 6/4, so this is a good omen for Whitlock to repeat the result. A 6-4 scoreline is 5/1 with BetVictor. The 2/5 outright is attractive enough and over 9.5 legs is 6/5 with Skybet. Correct scores of 6-2, 6-3 and 6-4 to Whitlock may see appeal with odds of 5/1, 9/2 and 5/1 respectively.
Take the following:
Pipe – 1/2
Newton –1.5 legs
Whitlock to win:
6/2 (5/1)
6/3 (9/2)
6/4 (5/1)
Being a best of 11 format, there is no rest bite for any player, a straight knockout, no second chances.
Looking at the eight matches on offer, initial strong candidates are:
Pipe
Hamilton
Whitlock
Newton
King
Of course Taylor should make it through, but his odds are incredibly short, seeing as the first round short format is where he is most vulnerable. The field all know this.
Pipe has played Dolan three times and twice in 2011 where he won both times. He is in respect 12-3 in legs up over the last two games, both in the best of 11 format. Pipe was incredible on the floor last year and began the year with a victory. He recently made a semi final, and this format suits him. Justin and Brendan have similar experience on the stage, but feel, that Dolan misses too many doubles, and Pipe is a great price at 1/2.
Newton should beat Seyler. The stats suggest that Seylor has beaten Newton 2-1, but two of those matches were best of five matches, so cannot be considered reliable. The fact that was in 2008 says it all. They have played in a similar format to this in 2010 in Gibraltar, where Newton was the victor. Newton is far more experienced playing nearly 1100 matches to Seylors 133 matches. Newton’s win percentage is 68.2% with Seylors 45.86 percent – http://www.dartsmad.com/dartabase/darts_player_head_to_head.aspx
Newton is best priced 3/10 at Bwin for this and is 5/6 –2.5, which is not worth risking, but the outright price is about right for your accumulators.
Whitlock will be expected to beat Walsh, who was out of sort at the Matchplay. The pair have played eleven times, with Whitlock winning seven from the eleven. Whitlock beat Walsh this last Saturday 6/4, so this is a good omen for Whitlock to repeat the result. A 6-4 scoreline is 5/1 with BetVictor. The 2/5 outright is attractive enough and over 9.5 legs is 6/5 with Skybet. Correct scores of 6-2, 6-3 and 6-4 to Whitlock may see appeal with odds of 5/1, 9/2 and 5/1 respectively.
Take the following:
Pipe – 1/2
Newton –1.5 legs
Whitlock to win:
6/2 (5/1)
6/3 (9/2)
6/4 (5/1)
