We move into the second half of the third week of action in the Icons of Darts event on Thursday and after witnessing a nine dart perfect leg on Wednesday, all eyes will be on the stream to see what another day of action has in store for us.
It gets no better than a nine dart finish but that was just the highlight on what was a much better day of darts overall and with the leader after two days Paul Nicholson returning, we should get another great day of competition from five men battling it out in their homes.
The Format
Each day 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.
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Wednesday Recap
It really was a good day of darts on Wednesday and that was especially the case for Arron Monk. Not only did he achieve perfection in one leg against James Hubbard but he produced a perfect four wins from his four matches to win the Wednesday action and move to the top of the overall league on leg difference. Andy Jenkins went from hero to zero literally as he failed to register a single win on Wednesday while James Hubbard, Adam Huckvale and Diogo Portela all managed to record a pair of successes to take forward with them.
We followed up the success of Tuesday with another winner on Wednesday so we are now in profit for the league this week. That winner came courtesy of Adam Huckvale, who despite missing doubles to win his fourth leg not only eventually snaffled it but he went on to claim the decider against Andy Jenkins which probably cost us a few quid but given that he coughed up 10 darts at a double earlier in the week we’ll take an evens winner and move on.
Thursday Line Up
Andy Jenkins will get the chance to dwell on his poor showing on Wednesday when he has the day off on Thursday. We welcome the man tied with Arron Monk at the top of the table, Paul Nicholson, back to the party and those two will battle it out for the overall supremacy at the end of the day. They will take on the three Challenge Tour stars Diogo Portela, Adam Huckvale and James Hubbard with all five men looking for the points which will better their current positions.
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Outright Betting
I haven’t yet seen enough from the three Challenge Tour men to make me think that they can trouble the other two in the overall picture. We pretty much saw the group decided on Wednesday in the first match for the big two when they played each other and with Arron Monk taking on Paul Nicholson in his first match the same could happen again on Thursday. I guess you could argue that the 13/5 on Nicholson is decent value but he has had the day off.
In my eyes this is for Arron Monk to lose but we saw last week that he began well and then faded as the week went on so while I expect him to win the group, and dominate it in truth, I’m not really in a rush to back him at shorter than 2/1. This is turning into a decent week of betting so I’m not going to ruin it by backing something I don’t particularly fancy or something that the odds are pretty short in.
Match Betting
There is one bet that I’ll go with over the course of the play on Thursday and it is for Diogo Portela to complete a hat trick of successes over Adam Huckvale. I’ve been quite disappointed with Huckvale so far in truth and while he landed me a bet on Wednesday, that was more a fade of Jenkins than it was anything I liked in Huckvale, so I have no issues with taking him on again on Thursday.
Huckvale should have beaten Portela on Monday but spurned 10 match darts at double. He got nowhere near him on Wednesday though. There have been one or two signs throughout the week that the Brazilian is improving whereas I think Huckvale has been at the same level. I’ll side with the South American here.
Tips
Back D.Portela to beat A.Huckvale for a 3/10 stake at 1.83 with BetVictor
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