It is the middle day of action for the second pool of players in the Modus Icons of Darts competition on Thursday, as the seven players who took to their home oches on Tuesday once again tackle each other for our lockdown entertainment.
Andy Jenkins was the man who came out on top when this pool of players first took to the streams this week and he’ll be out to replicate his success. He’ll once again face some decent competition on what should be a good day of darts.
The Format
Each day from Monday to Saturday seven players will battle it out for a daily title. There are two pools of players, one which plays on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and the other which toe the oche on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Each day the seven players will play each other once over the best of seven legs with two points for a win. The daily winner is the player with the most points. If players are level on points it is determined on leg difference and then the record between the two. The entire event can be watched on various bookmaker websites, dartshop.tv or the Modus YouTube channel.
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Wednesday Recap
We saw a major shock on Wednesday as it was the outsider of the group starting out the day in Mike Warburton who came out on top with five wins from his six matches. That was one win too good for Boris Koltsov and Ritchie Edhouse who came second and third respectively with four wins apiece. Scott Marsh picked up three wins while there were a pair of victories for Jarred Cole and Fallon Sherrock. Jose Justicia could only land one win for his efforts on Wednesday.
The betting day started off really well for us when Scott Marsh took care of Mike Warburton for his third win from his opening three matches, but it got progressively worse from there. He didn’t win another match so what looked like a good chance to win the group went begging and his match with Ritchie Edhouse never got going on the maximum front. Edhouse won four matches but one of them was not the one against Sherrock that we wanted him to win.
Thursday Line Up
All eyes will be on Andy Jenkins on Thursday to see if he can back up his success from Tuesday into another one here. Six men will be out to deny him that and the favourite to do so is Jason Askew, although it has to be said for all his talent his results have not been great in his last few Modus outings. Martin Adams ran Jenkins close on Tuesday and it could be that the three time world champion poses the biggest threat once again here.
There are two other world champions who will be looking to get themselves in the mix throughout the course of the day with Scott Mitchell and Mark Webster taking their chances. The other two men in the field who will be hoping they are not making up the numbers are Darryl Fitton and Keelan Kay, although both would need a decent improvement on what we’ve seen thus far if they are going to be contenders.
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Outright Betting
We hit the jackpot with Andy Jenkins on Tuesday and I’m not convinced he is done with this thing yet and I’m actually surprised that he isn’t the favourite to win this group. I mentioned on Tuesday that he won 14 of his 18 matches the last time he was involved in this tournament and he added another five from six on Tuesday and in truth only Martin Adams pushed him close in the five matches he won.
You always have to be wary of the likes of Jason Askew. He has devastating scoring power when it goes right, while we’ve seen Scott Mitchell improve by the day in most of the previous weeks he has played so he also has to be respected. You can never write Martin Adams off either but the other three need some real improvement to be involved here. I said to myself after Tuesday if I could still get 3/1 on Jenkins here I’d take it. We can and so I will.
Match Betting
I’ll play one bet on Thursday on the match front. That comes in the clash between Martin Adams and Mark Webster. Webster shows signs of being competitive but over the course of the day his statistics rarely make good reading, whereas while Adams can have issues on the doubling, his stats are usually very good. Importantly here, Adams has scored as well as anyone in this competition for a while now. That should give him a few more darts at a double.
Webster only won one match on Tuesday which came against Darryl Fitton but he only averaged 79 in that match which tells you all you need to know about that encounter. Adams won 4-2 when the pair met in the penultimate match of the day on Tuesday and that is often when Wolfie tends to tighten up with his shoulder issue. They meet pretty early on Thursday so I’m expecting an equally as comfortable win here if not one that is slightly easier.
Tips
Back A.Jenkins to win Group 4 for a 2/10 stake at 4.00 with Coral
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WON – Back M.Adams (-1.5 legs) to beat M.Webster for a 3/10 stake at 2.00 with 888sport
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