Thanks. Got the bet on him! Just looked at his draw too, and it doesn't look too bad!

Good shout, 40's all gone now so I have had a punt at 33's. Also backed Hankey at 14's, which will look massive if he manages to beat Waites in the second round.

He gets on with the job? He has more hissy fits than Mervyn King!!

Agreed. Over The Top has been fantastic recently, got to the World final, the Masters final and the 2nd round of the GSOD where he got knocked out in a mammoth contest against Walshy, losing even with a 104 average.

I just hope and pray to god that Adams doesn't win again. I used to be a fan of his but his recent actions plus being voted on to the BDO board as supposedly "Supreme Leader of the British Darts Orgainsation" means I cannot stand him now. Sooner he gets knocked out, the better!

Come on The Count !!!

That's a bit harsh!
Although he does act like one.

No, but what I think may be lost on you is that Waites and Hankey play for [urival[/u organisations. If last week the PDC would have announced that Hankey was in the Premier League he would have immediately been kicked out of the Lakeside and the BDO. It just would not happen.

Plus, neither of them have a tour card for the PDC, so how can they be in the Premier League? FWIW, all four semi-finalists from the Lakeside do get offered tour cards by the PDC for two years, but obviously it's too late for the PL because it's all been announced.

PS. All those who backed Dekker, you've lost you're money. Eliminated by Kist, who looks the only threat to Winstanley in his quarter of the draw.

Yes, that certainly stopped Raymond van Barneveld

The PDC could have easily delayed the announcement, there was no urgency to it.



So what? You think the PDC care about tour cards when they could bring Hankey over? I'm perfectly aware who gets awarded tour cards, thanks for informing me though.



Again, thanks for letting us know our bet lost, we haven't been watching the darts at all. Obviously every 33/1 shot posted on here should be a winner, apologies.

Mate, I wasn't being sarcy, cocky or anything like that when I was on about Dekker. Apologies if it came across. Unlike some, I don't come on here to cause arguments. I come on to talk about subjects I have an opinion, in this instance darts.

All I'd say is I think the case of RvB (four time world champ and THE man in the BDO at the time of his switch), compared to Hankey, who is no.15 seed at the lakeside and someone who clearly struggles with a crowd and has resisted PDC approaches before, are very different. As much as I like Waites, think he may have missed his chance after his Grand Slam win.

The seeding in the BDO is screwed, the fact that he is the 15th seed by no means means that he is the 15th best player in the BDO this year, as I'm sure you know. After this years GSOD, it was quite clear that Ted was more than sympathetic towards the PDC, and he put in some decent performance there - seems to raise his game when on a bigger stage, I can't blame him for lacking motivation in the BDO. He'd certainly sell more tickets than Painter. I agree to an extent about Waites however.