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Ricardo Pietreczko Jumps Ten Places in Rankings While James Wade Slips out of PDC’s Top 16
The winners and losers of the 2023 German Darts Championship have been revealed now that the dust in Hildesheim has settled. It has proven to be one of the PDC’s more disruptive events when it comes to player rankings, as Ricardo Pietreczko walked away with his first PDC title and a rankings boost. Meanwhile, English legend and darts’ favourite lefty James Wade slipped from the PDC’s top 16 for the first time in as many years.
From Bullseye to Touchdown: Darts Betting vs. Betting on Other Popular Sports
Apart from Darts, there are many individual sports, including popular ones like Golf, Tennis, and Boxing. This individuality is one of the things that makes these sports unique, and they all attract wagers from millions of gamblers worldwide.
Playing the Numbers Game: How the Stats Support Darts' Status as a Top-Tier Sport
Darts has risen from relative obscurity to a top-flight sport in just a few decades. Indeed, we’ve got plenty of articles that chart the history of darts and the sport's evolution. Now the sport is ranked among the world’s most popular, statistics have become more important than ever.
PDC Confirms Dates and Locations for Remaining World Series of Darts Events in 2023
The biggest names in darts will be seeking global domination once more as the next set of World Series fixtures gets underway.
MVG and co will be heading to America, New Zealand, Australia and Poland from June as the PDC schedule cranks up in the second half of the year.
Was Keith Deller’s 1983 World Darts Championship win the most incredible story in the sport?
When Keith Deller arrived at the 1983 World Darts Championship, he had no money. In fact, Deller was borrowing cash from the officials during the week just to make it by. However, by the end of the week-long tournament in the West Midlands, Deller would walk out of the Jollees Cabaret Club and buy himself a house in Enfield with a swimming pool.
Mighty Mike Fights Back Against the New Generation
Having dominated the world of darts for so long, Michael van Gerwen faces more challenges right now than ever before. The recently updated Players Championship Order of Merit confirms the point that this is a much more competitive sport in the present day.
Is Michael Smith on Course to Dominate the PDC?
Michael Smith won his maiden PDC World Darts championship at the Alexandra Palace in January. It was a huge success for the man from St Helens as it showed he had fulfilled his promise.
Darts from the Bar to the World Class Sport
Darts is one of the biggest growing Sports in the World
Darts has been a social pub and bar game for over one hundred years. It has been played by the gentry and the common working man, usually by the working man at his local public house.
Mainly a match contained a small wager, and this nearly had the game banned from the Bars, Taverns, and Pubs across England at one point for being a game of luck! It was soon proved in court that the game was indeed a game of pure skill and allowed to remain a firm fixture in taprooms of most of England's bars at the time.
Was Michael Smith's Nine-Darter the Greatest Leg of All Time?
The 2023 PDC World Darts Championship at the Alexandra Palace was a spectacular event in many ways. Michael Smith won the event for the first time after heartbreak in 2019 and 2022. Steve Beaton extended his own record with a 32nd consecutive appearanceat the World Championship, while Dutchman Raymond van Barneveld reached 30 appearances. But the one moment that stood out was Smith's nine-dart finish, the only one at the tournament.
Champion of Champions Comes to Norwich for First Time in January 2023
The annual darts exhibition series Champions of Champions gets underway again early in 2023, just a few weeks after the sport crowns its newest PDC world champion. On January 21, the Rialto in Coventry will see a whole host of top names compete for an evening in Coventry.
The next day, the padded field and some new additions will make their way to Norwich for the very first time in the event’s history.
World War II Dartboards and Darts Propaganda
During the Second World War Darts was huge in UK pubs. Various regional boards were at this time familiar across the country and solders from the USA Canada, and Australia took to the game quickly. They helped spread the sports as we know now it far and wide. However, dartboards were used by MI9 (Military Intelligence) and propaganda from both sides featured in everything from board games to target games.
Read more about this period of history and how dart boosted morale and helped PoWs escape their capturers. The Blitzkrieg Dartboard which we know little about and this mysterious ‘Gilboard’ manufacture that may have never been! .
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