The third season of the PDC Home Tour continues on Tuesday when another seven players load up their cameras and iPads and take to their home oches to battle it out for more vital points in a tightening battle to qualify for the next stage.
Six of the seven men in the Tuesday line up have already played in at least one group of the Home Tour III already and will be looking to bolster their point tally over the course of the day. We also have one debutant appearing for the first time this season.
The Format
42 players will compete in PDC Home Tour III and they will all compete in three of the 18 groups in the first round where their results will be accumulated on one overall league table where the top seven at the end of the initial 18 days of action will form a Championship Group from which the overall champion will be crowned. All matches are the best of seven legs and the tournament will be broadcast on PDC.tv or the bookmaker streaming sites.
Group 8 Recap
We intimated in our preview of the Monday action that the trend of this tournament is for the favourites or the bigger names to dominate proceedings and that continued as Kim Huybrechts came up with five wins from his six matches to top the group. Steve Brown and Steve Beaton were his closest challengers with four wins while Carl Wilkinson and William Borland both picked up three wins each. John Henderson and Harald Leitinger ended their day with just one win to show for their efforts.
It was a profitable start to the week for us as our one bet that we placed came in at odds against. We backed Carl Wilkinson to get the better of John Henderson safe in the knowledge that if it came to it he would have the throw in the deciding leg. It did come to that and he head onto his throw to win the match 4-3 and get us on our way to what we hope will be a week full of good profit as we head into the second part of the campaign.
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Group 9 Line Up
The Favourites
The last couple of groups of this tournament have had a standout name and this one is no different in that regard. On this occasion it is Stephen Bunting who is the leading light although his Home Tour record is indifferent at best and that will keep the other players interested. Bunting has already played in a group of this and offered little in it so he has something to prove. Two men who did go well in their opening effort were Ross Smith and Andy Hamilton. They have three and four wins respectively and will be expecting more here.
The Outsiders
There are four other players in the group with three of them having competed already in this campaign. Kai Fan Leung picked up three wins in his first group on a day when Simon Whitlock completely dominated and he’ll be looking for more here. It is actually Mickey Mansell who has the most points of anyone in this group. He took 10 from his first foray and will want to build on that. Daniel Larsson has three wins to his name while Ciaran Teehan is playing in the competition for the first time.
Group Betting
I haven’t been betting on the groups in this tournament just yet, partly because I haven’t seen a price that I particularly like and also most of the groups have had a standout figure who it has been difficult to see past. This is probably the first group that has come along where the latter point isn’t really the case. Stephen Bunting is the standout player but he is hardly in much form at the minute and has to be taken on.
I’m well aware that Mickey Mansell is the leader of this group in terms of points but even though he is a huge price there is just something about his style that I’m not quite sure of. The player I’ll take Bunting on with is Andy Hamilton who should be buzzing at the minute because he has secured a return to the World Championship which is no mean feat in his first season back on tour. That shows his game is heading in the right direction and gives him a purpose to practice for. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him go very well here and at 10/1 I’ll pay to see if he tops the group.
Match Betting
I am happy enough to take Mickey Mansell in one of his matches though. He is actually an outsider in all three matches in which he has the throw but the one I like him in is the one against Kai Fan Leung, a player who has had a pretty decent season all things considering, but who has already lost 5-1 to Mansell in the earlier Home Tour and who looks vulnerable again here after some indifferent results in the recent Winter Series.
Mansell wasn’t exactly brilliant in the Winter Series himself but he had a couple of wins which will have kept his dander up. I think it is more relevant that he has performed well in the past Home Tours and that makes me think he is the one to be on here. The extra thing he has in his favour is that he throws first in this match. That is certainly significant because in the first group he competed in he won all three matches when he had the throw, two of them 4-3 when the deciding leg counted. That gives me even more confidence in the Northern Irishman here.
Tips
Back A.Hamilton to win Group 9 for a 1/10 stake at 11.00 with Coral
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Back M.Mansell to beat K-F.Leung for a 3/10 stake at 2.04 with 888sport
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