We hit the halfway mark in the Remote Darts League on Wednesday night, and with the table becoming clearer with every evening, the 10 players on show will be eager to pick up the two valuable points on offer.
The 10 men will once again battle it out from their own homes for our entertainment and with some really good performances being delivered on Tuesday, hopes are high that we’ll get some strong action throughout Wednesday night.
The Format
If you are a fan of the Premier League Darts event that the PDC hold each year this format will be familiar to you as it is very similar to that. The 10 men face each other once over the first nine evenings of the competition with the top four in the league table progressing to finals night in the 10th evening. The winner of the semi-finals and final is crowned the champion. Each match in the league phase is the best of 12 legs and players get two points for a win and one for a draw. The whole event will be shown live on the Remote Darts League channel on YouTube.
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Night Four Recap
The evening got underway with a fairly forgettable contest between Tony O’Shea and Dean Winstanley, one which O’Shea won 7-2 but from there the evening was lit up with some great darts, firstly from James Richardson who averaged around the 94 mark in a 7-1 win over John Walton and then Paul Hogan who walloped Wes Newton 7-0. There was a high quality 6-6 draw between Darryl Fitton and Jim Williams before the performance of the night was delivered by Gary Robson who scored like a lunatic in a 7-4 win over Alan Norris.
As with all the other competitions on Tuesday evening, it was a perfect night for us in the Remote Darts League as neither John Walton nor Wes Newton threatened to stop James Richardson and Paul Hogan delivering their handicaps. Those two wins means it is six winners from the seven bets we have placed in this tournament to date, a run we hope to extend for the remainder of it.
Fixtures
Gary Robson v Darryl Fitton
Wes Newton v Alan Norris
John Walton v Tony O’Shea
Paul Hogan v Jim Williams
Dean Winstanley v James Richardson
Preview
Two matches jump out at us over the course of the night on Wednesday and the first of those gets us going as potentially the two biggest scorers in the tournament collide when Gary Robson takes on Darryl Fitton in what could be the best match of the event to date. The other cracker on the card is the penultimate game of the evening where Paul Hogan and Jim Williams put their undefeated records on the line against each other.
Elsewhere, two men who could do with a win meet in the second match when Wes Newton takes on Alan Norris in what promises to be a tough tussle. We then have a Roses clash between the veteran pair of John Walton and Tony O’Shea while the action concludes with a bottom vs top match up when Dean Winstanley goes in search of that elusive first point of the event, as he goes up against the new tournament leader James Richardson.
Betting
This has the feel of a card to sit back with a cold beer and enjoy rather than get stuck into it betting wise about it, and largely that is going to be my modus operandi here. There were a couple that tempt me early doors in Gary Robson and Alan Norris but one has a top class opponent and the other is under pressure to win and I’m already on him outright, so in the end I’ve decided to take just one which comes in the closer.
Dean Winstanley is getting better by the night in terms of his scoring and overall play but there still looks to be a significant gulf between him and James Richardson. There is near enough a full 20 points in their first nine scoring average which means after nine darts Richardson will be an average of 60 in front, which at this level is almost a whole turn. As with Tuesday night, if he is to be stopped he has to come off his form or miss a boat load of doubles. If anything though, he is getting stronger not weaker. Richardson has averaged 94 or higher for the last three nights while Winstanley has been in the 70s for two of those evenings. The Yorkshireman might string darts together to win two or three legs here but no more.
Tips
WON – Back J.Richardson (-3.5 legs) to beat D.Winstanley for a 3/10 stake at 1.80 with William Hill
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