First and Second Round draw:

 

Michael van Gerwen v Alan Tabern or Raymond Smith

Max Hopp v Danny Noppert or Royden Lam

Adrian Lewis v Simon Stevenson or Ted Evatts

Raymond van Barneveld v Matthew Edgar or Darius Labanauskus

Simon Whitlock v Ryan Joyce or Anastasia Dobromyslova

Alan Norris v Steve Lennon or James Bailey

James Wade v Krzysztof Ratajski or Seigo Asada

Jelle Klaasen v Keegan Brown or Karel Sedlacek

Daryl Gurney v Ross Smith or Paul Lim

Jamie Lewis v Martin Schindler or Cody Harris

Dave Chisnall v Josh Payne or Jeff Smith

Kim Huybrechts v Robert Thornton or Daniel Larsson

Gary Anderson v Paul Nicholson or Kevin Burness

Jermaine Wattimena v Michael Barnard or Jose De Sousa

Darren Webster v Vincent van der Voort or Lourence Ilagan

Steve Beaton v Chris Dobey or Boris Koltsov

Rob Cross v Jeffrey de Zwaan or Nitin Kumar

Cristo Reyes v Ricky Evans or Rowby-John Rodriguez

Jonny Clayton v Dimitri Van den Bergh or Chuck Puleo

Stephen Bunting v Luke Humphries or Adam Hunt

Mensur Suljovic v Ryan Searle or Stephen Burton

James Wilson v William O'Connor or Yordi Meeuwiese

Michael Smith v Ron Meulenkamp or Diogo Portela

John Henderson v Gabriel Clemens or Aden Kirk

Gerwyn Price v Nathan Aspinall or Geert Nentjes

Kyle Anderson v Jeffrey de Graaf or Noel Malicdem

Ian White v Wayne Jones or Devon Petersen

Steve West v Richard North or Robert Marijanovic

Peter Wright v Toni Alcinas or Craig Ross

Benito van de Pas v Michael Mansell or Jim Long

Joe Cullen v Brendan Dolan or Yuanjun Liu

Mervyn King v Jan Dekker or Lisa Ashton

 

 

 

The 2019 William Hill PDC World Darts Championship takes place at Alexandra Palace in London from Thursday December 13 to Tuesday January 1 where Rob Cross looks to defend his world title.

 

Who do you think will win?

 

Hoping at least one of Anastasia or Lisa wins a match.

 

Cross though, what a letdown he's been since that incredible title last time out! Hasn't particularly been a vintage year for MVG either so I expect a quite a few upsets at this tournament. Even Anderson I'm not so sure on, perhaps this could finally be Snakebite's moment?

Maybe Gurney has a outside chance. MVG been inconsistent in the TV tournaments.

Odds (Coral):

 

Michael Van Gerwen 11-8f

Gary Anderson 3-1

Peter Wright 9-1

Michael Smith 14-1

Mensur Suljiovic 22-1

Rob Cross 22-1

Daryl Gurney 33-1

Gerwyn Price 33-1

James Wade 40-1

Dimitri van der Bergh 50-1

Adrian Lewis 66-1

Raymond Van Barneveld 66-1

Jeffrey de Zwaan 66-1

Simon Whitlock 80-1

Dave Chisnall 80-1

Joe Cullen 80-1

Ian White 100-1

Jonny Clayton 100-1

Kyle Anderson 125-1

Stephen Bunting 150-1

Krzysztof Ratajski 150-1

Steve West 150-1

Jamie Lewis 150-1

Danny Noppert 200-1

Darren Webster 200-1

James Wilson 200-1

Kim Huybrechts 200-1

Max Hopp 250-1

Chris Dobey 300-1

Jelle Klaasen 300-1

Mervyn King 400-1

Steve Beaton 400-1

Ricky Evans 400-1

Steve Lennon 400-1

Cristo Reyes 500-1

Robert Thornton 500-1

Benito van de Pas 500-1

John Henderson 500-1

Vincent van der Voort 500-1

Alan Norris 500-1

Brendan Dolan 500-1

Jermaine Wattimena 500-1

Josh Payne 500-1

Ron Meulkenjamp 500-1

Ryan Searle 500-1

Richard North 500-1

Martin Schindler 500-1

Keegan Brown 750-1

Jan Dekker 750-1

Nathan Aspinall 750-1

William O'Connor 750-1

Luke Humphries 750-1

Gabriel Clemens 750-1

Stephen Burton 1000-1

Darius Labanauskas 1000-1

Ross Smith 1000-1

Stephen Burton 1000-1

Jeffrey de Graaf 1000-1

Robert Marjanovic 1000-1

Aden Kirklo 1000-1

Lourence Illagan 1000-1

Ryan Joyce 1000-1

Michael Barnard 1000-1

Ted Evertts 1000-1

Devon Petersen 1000-1

Paul Nicholson 1000-1

Antonio Alcinas 1000-1

Micky Mansell 1000-1

Boris Koltsov 1000-1

Paul Lim 1000-1

Rowby-John Rodriguez 1000-1

Cody Harris 1000-1

Robert Marijanovic 1000-1

Lisa Ashton 1000-1

Simon Stevenson 1500-1

Adam Hunt 1500-1

Diogo Portela 2000-1

Alan Tabern 2000-1

Aden Kirk 2000-1

Seigo Asada 2000-1

Geert Nentjes 2000-1

Daniel Larsson 2000-1

Yordi Meeuwisse 2000-1

Anastastia Dobromyslova 2000-1

Royden Lam 2000-1

Matthew Edgar 2000-1

Raymond Smith 2500-1

Kevin Burness 2500-1

Craig Ross 2500-1

Jose de Sousa 5000-1

Yuanjun Liu 5000-1

Noel Malicdem 5000-1

Jim Long 5000-1

Chuck Puleo 5000-1

Karel Sedlacek 5000-1

Lourence Ilogan 5000-1

Noel Malicsem 5000-1

James Bailey 5000-1

Nitin Kumar 5000-1

 

Who would you like to see win the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship?

Great first set from Lisa Ashton who averaged 108 to win that set, not to be as she lost 3-1 to Jan Dekker. Equality has became a reality in darts, Lisa Ashton. Well done Lisa.

 

 

Rob Cross through to the second round 3-1 against a tricky opponent in Jeffrey De Zwaan.

 

 

Unlucky last night was De Zwaan who averaged 106 in a tight match and was unfortunate to have such a hard draw early on.

BBC America will be airing a darts championship 16 December at 9 in the morning east coast time here in the US...not sure it it's what you're all talking about in this thread...

BBC America will be airing a darts championship 16 December at 9 in the morning east coast time here in the US...not sure it it's what you're all talking about in this thread...

Yes that is the one that BBC America will be showing, bigwiglaf.

Not great to hear about MvG having beer thrown at him before his walk-on.

A heroic display from Toni Alcinas to knock out third seed Peter Wright 3-1 in the second round.

"I felt great but some players get lucky on their day and Toni got lucky, that's it."

 

What Peter Wright thought of his second round defeat.

 

 

Lithuania's Darius Labanauskas has knocked out Van Barneveld 3-2 in the second round. Quite a win for him.

He's great, is Ricky Evans. Enjoyed that game! Shame he's out. No more 'Baby Shark ' walk-on for this championship.

Ron Meulenkamp will be the world #2 left-handed player after the World Championship concludes.

And what's with the explanation of doing it for the UK from James Wade in his post-match interview?

 

Whitlock,.Wilson and Cullen all out today.

What on earth was James Wade playing at with those celebrations in Seigo Asada's face?

This is the incident:

 

From James Wade

 

"I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologise for my actions last night.

 

"Seigo Asada is a great player and I would like to say sorry to him, the fans and the PDC. Anyone that has followed my professional career will know this was very out of character for me and I'm disappointed in myself with the way I acted both on the stage and in my interviews after the match.

 

"I was fighting a battle with myself before I even got on the stage due to a hypomania episode which can happen to me at any time and no-one is more upset than I am about what happened."