Darts Betting Odds

Ladbrokes Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) World Darts Championship is scheduled to start on Friday 18th December 2009 and will run through the festive period. Alexandra Palace in London will be hosting this prestigious event over thirteen days culminating with the final on Sunday 3rd January 2010.

No doubt, many darts fans will be placing bets on their favourite players prior to the event however, many more will wait until play has started to see if they can achieve better odds. One thing is for sure, the winner of this event will receive the big bucks in the form of £200,000 which is a large proportion of the staggering £1 million prize fund.

The event opens on the 18th December and will run till 23rd when it will break for Christmas, play will be resumed on Sunday the 27th December till December the 30th, quarter finals will be played from New Years Day, followed by the semi final and ending with the final on January 3rd.

Since the founding of the PDC World Championship, Sky Sports have broadcast this event live and the tournament has become more and more popular with viewers. In 1999 the viewing figures stood at 200,000, in 2008 731.000 viewers watched this popular event and yet it increased to 809,000 in 2009. However, 2007 saw the greatest viewing figures of more than a million.

The Canadian John Part won the title 7-2 last year against Kirk Shepherd who was making his world championship debut. This win brought Part his third World Darts Championships title, he is now one of only five people to achieve these heights, others include John Lowe, Phil Taylor, Raymond Van Barneveld, and Eric Bristow. What makes Part’s victory unique is the fact that he made his wins at three different venues - Lakeside, Purfleet and the Ally Pally.

PDC World Darts Championship was introduced in 1994 after a dispute with the British Darts Organisation and is traditionally always played out over the Christmas period. One man who has dominated this tournament is Phil Taylor who reached no less than the first 14 finals and won eleven of them making him somewhat a darts icon. He missed out on the final for the first time in 2008, but came fighting back to win in 2009. Will you be betting on the darts hero Phil Taylor? Or maybe you’ll place your bet on last years finalist, Raymond van Barneveld?

Whatever your preference, this years PDC World Darts Championship is sure to make for brilliant viewing.