BDO World Darts Championship betting preview, free tips & TV details

Free darts tips, best bets and analysis for the BDO World Championship at the Indigo at the O2.

Where to watch

Eurosport 1, 1pm & 7pm Wednesday

Wednesday's best bets

W Harms
2pts 4-5 bet365
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M Unterbuchner
2pts Evs Coral, Ladbrokes, Sky Bet
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Preview

Wesley Harms might make an uninspiring top seed for the BDO World Darts Championships but the Dutch under-achiever looks to be in the form which can at least carry him past former champ Scott Waites and into the quarter-finals.

Harms, a man who had suffered three first-round losses in his last four trips to the worlds when staged at the Lakeside, looked at home at the O2 on Monday seeing off Andreas Harrysson.

The first three sets all went the distance, Harrysson won two of them and that’s usually when Sparky gets flaky. But there’s a new-found steel to his game and he reeled off the next five legs before beating the Swede in a tie-breaker, averaging almost 92 in the process. And that’s a title-winning number in this competition.

Waites, meanwhile, was involved in a far more modest affair against Martin Adams in a battle of the former winners. That, too, went the distance and even though the Yorkshireman didn’t manage a 90 average in any of those five sets, he managed to hobble over the line.

Another former champion, Scott Mitchell, is also into the last 16 courtesy of seeing off the child wonder that is Leighton Bennett.

The kid, sadly, looked fazed by the whole occasion, was dropping short with his first dart too often in an obvious sign of tension and Mitchell won nine of 13 legs.

It was pretty ordinary fare from the Dorset darter who can expect to be punished by Michael Unterbuchner next up.

The German looked very impressive against Willem Mandigers – six of the 11 legs won were in 16 darts or under and that’s seriously hot shooting in this tournament.

Thursday's best bet

M Kleermaker
1pt 21-20 Red Zone
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Thursday's preview

Martijn Kleermaker and Paul Hogan produced the pick of the performances over the first four days of action at the BDO World Darts Championship and the giant Dutchman can bring the Englishman down to size when they meet in round three.

Kleermaker dropped just three legs in a 3-0 whitewash of Gino Vos, averaging 93 with a handful of 180s.

Hogan nailed six maximums in an edgy 3-1 win over Brian Raman in round one before winning the opening seven legs of a 3-0 rout of Adam Smith-Neale to set up this eyecatching tussle with the No.8 seed.

Veteran Hogan, a man who still dines out on his back-to-back wins over world champions Gary Anderson and Adrian Lewis at the 2017 UK Open, averaged 97 against Smith-Neale – he was millimetres from hitting a nine-darter – a performance which has earned him slight favouritism.

But he wasn’t tested against the abject Smith-Neale whereas Kleermaker, who will now feel at home on the Indigo stage at the O2 after a rock-solid debut, will be an altogether sterner proposition.

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