The first week of the A Night at the Darts event brought to us from the gang at Modus Darts was an excellent affair, a really good watch and a high level of arrers so thankfully they have brought it back again and begin a new week on Monday.
We saw three world champions taking on some young bucks last week and although we’ve lost a world champion, there doesn’t appear to be any let up in the potential quality on show on what should be an excellent week.
The Format
Each night from Monday to Saturday five men will battle it out in a round robin group with the overall champion being determined on Saturday May 2. Matches will see the players compete over the best of 9 legs with each of them at home in front of a webcam throwing at their own individual dartboards. Scores can be found on Dart Connect and the tournament will be streamed on the bookmaker live streaming consoles and for free on Dartslive.tv.
Saturday Recap
Raymond van Barneveld ended his run in these leagues for the time being with the group success on what was easily the best night of action he produced of the 10 he took part in. He saw off David Evans on leg difference with Wessel Nijman a couple of points back on two wins. Scott Mitchell and Martin Adams both picked up solitary wins to round off their weeks and will be looking to build on that this week.
It wasn’t the greatest end to the week for us betting wise as we were denied a big priced winner when Scott Mitchell went down to David Evans in a deciding leg, made all the harder to take when Mitchell missed a dart at tops in the deciding leg to bring the cash in. We’ll certainly be looking for better over the week to come that is for sure.
Monday Line Up
We have a couple of new players to the evening session on Monday, joining a trio of players who spent last week battling it out. Those we have seen before are Martin Adams, David Evans and the man who claimed the overall title in the first week of the competition in the form of Wessel Nijman. Scott Mitchell has the night off so we’ll be seeing him later in the week.
Jason Askew is not new to proceedings but the man who won the Icons of Darts league last week has been given a lie in and gets to challenge himself in the evening event instead here. He’ll look to do what Wessel Nijman couldn’t quite manage to do and win the night competition the week after he landed the daytime event.
The last man in the field on the opening night of action is the Russian player Boris Koltsov. We are no stranger to seeing the Russian on our screens as he has been involved in the World Cup and World Championship on a number of occasions. Koltsov has been playing well on the Challenge Tour over the last couple of years, winning an event last season, and he already has a quarter final finish to his name this term. He does look a bit overmatched here though.
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Outright Betting
As the only new player to proceedings there is no doubt that Boris Koltsov has plenty against him here so I’m going to leave him and focus on the other four players. Wessel Nijman and David Evans have both shown their credentials but both showed a few frailties the longer last week went on. We saw last week that when Martin Adams is on his game he can take it to anyone still, but consistency remains an issue. That leaves one.
Jason Askew was incredibly impressive last week and looks to be in decent order. He was registering 100 averages, hitting plenty of 180s and big checkouts and that power scoring can have a major influence on the other man even though he isn’t in the same room. I suspect this group is going to come down to who checks out the best and if Askew continues where he left off in that regard then the 9/2 on him landing the spoils looks too big.
Match Betting
Boris Koltsov is capable of some good darts but stringing it together consistently remains a problem for him and there is no doubt he is in with some proper campaigners here. The first match he plays is against Jason Askew and although I’m on the Englishman for the group, I’m going to take him to come out on top in this match because I think he has plenty going for him to get the job done here.
Not only will this be Askew’s second match, giving him a chance to get the competitive juices flowing, and it only Koltsov’s first one but it is actually the Russian’s debut in this setup and if there is one thing we’ve seen throughout these home leagues it is that it takes a few legs if not matches to get used to. Scott Mitchell was quite honest on social media about how much it takes to get used to this and Koltsov will have to do that here. He’ll have to do it against a Jason Askew who is likely to be ploughing in big scores and tasty finishes and that should all be enough for Askew to win no worse than 5-3.
Tips
Back J.Askew to win Group 1 for a 2/10 stake at 5.50 with William Hill
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Back J.Askew (-1.5 legs) to beat B.Koltsov for a 3/10 stake at 2.10 with Betfair
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