PDC World Darts Championship 2025 – Side Markets Tips and Betting Preview

The PDC World Darts Championship gets underway on Sunday evening and before the opening match of the tournament takes place there is just enough time to delve into some of the side markets priced up for the event.

We have markets for pretty much everything in this tournament including the winning half of the draw, a number of 180 markets, checkouts, nationalities, elimination stages and plenty more and two bets standout to us at the outset and we might tuck into others as we go along.

Total 170 Checkouts

The first market I wanted to look at was the one for the 170 checkouts, a task which will commonly be referred to as the ‘Big Fish’ for those who watch the coverage from start to finish in this tournament. The line if we want an acceptable price here is 5.5 and that feels very much in the favour of the over to me. This finish is left so many times now that it is getting to the stage where we are surprised when it isn’t hit instead of when it is, especially as the elite players are so good at following a first dart that when the first 60 lands the second invariably follows.

This line has been covered in each of the last two runnings of this tournament. There were six two years ago and last year we made our way up to eight of them and that was in a year where there were a few shock players in the latter stages. The mathematics of players these days is so good that they know all the routes to leave 170 and favour it a lot more than say 167 and 161 purely to stay on the 60. I would be surprised if the number of ‘Big Fishes’ reeled in dozen reach half a dozen here.

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Most 180s

The other market I’ll get stuck into from an early stage is the one for the player to hit the most 180s in the competition. Understandably given his relentless hitting of them this year, Luke Littler is the favourite to land this market but there are a couple of caveats to why I’m not sure he is the one to be on. The first is he looks to have a relatively smooth passage into the quarter final at least and might not be kept on the stage as long as other players who might get more sets in their earlier wins to run up more 180s.

The other reason is that it remains hard to see Littler not facing Luke Humphries in the semi-final and were that meeting to happen and Humphries win then he would have a best of 13 set match to chase down any deficit on ‘The Nuke’. Unlike Littler, there are players in Humphries’ quarter who can keep him honest and extend his matches even if they can’t beat him. The likes of Raymond van Barneveld, Peter Wright, Mike de Decker and others can all do that. Humphries can score like a dream when he gets going, as we saw when he hit 73 180s last year. Even at 7/2 he looks a standout for this market in terms of expected finishing position and depth of quality in his draw.

Tips

Back Over 5.5 170 Checkouts for a 7/10 stake at 2.00 with Betfred

Back L.Humphries Most Tournament 180s for a 3/10 stake at 4.50 with William Hill

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