World Darts Championship day two predictions and PDC darts betting tips

PDC darts tips, best bets and player analysis for day two of the 2023 Cazoo World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace, London.

Where to watch

Sky Sports Arena, midday & 7pm Friday

Best bets

K Brown
2pts 6-5 general

W O'Connor -1.5
2pts 10-11 bet365, BoyleSports

A Soutar to win 3-0
2pts 5-4 general

World Darts Championship day two preview

Keegan Brown, the boy who wouldn't be king, can upset the odds by beating one of last season's Ally Pally breakthrough stars on day two of the World Darts Championship.

Isle of Wight ace Brown is tipped to get the better of German ace Florian Hempel on the day that Michael Smith, last year's runner-up, makes his grand entrance.

Brown had the world at his feet when he was crowned world youth champion in 2014 but eight frustrating years later he is still yet to really make a breakthrough.

Juggling darts with his work for the NHS is clearly not easy but he showed in the summer that he's still got it when he won on the Pro Tour – his first title in seven years – beating Jose de Sousa, Peter Wright and Nathan Aspinall among others.

When he's throwing well, Brown is still a class act and he boasts a higher legs-won percentage than Hempel on tour this year.

The German, of course, announced himself to the darting world 12 months ago by beating Martin Schindler and Dimitri van den Bergh before being hammered by Raymond Smith.

He has gone on to win the German Super League and is a good player in his own right, although he's no better than Brown.

Game of the day has to be the showdown between William O'Connor and Beau Greaves.

The 18-year-old has been well supported but if O'Connor's anywhere near on his game, then he ought to win this well.

Yes, there is pressure on the Magpie and the crowd will be right behind Greaves, who is the star of the women's game right now. But there is pressure on her, too, and we've no idea how she will cope in an environment the likes of which she will have never experienced before.

O'Connor produced some impressive averages last year when beating Dan Lauby and Glen Durrant before giving Michael Smith a game in round three.

He's a former World Cup finalist and as recently as September beat Van den Bergh, Smith, De Sousa and Aspinall before losing to Joe Cullen in the final of the Hungarian Darts Trophy.

Two-time champion Adrian Lewis is too short against Sweden's Daniel Larsson given how inconsistent Jackpot is these days, although it's questionable if Larsson has the scoring power to make any kind of a dent.

One man with serious scoring power is Alan Soutar, who has a real squeak of making the quarter-finals, and he is taken to make light work of Australian Mal Cuming.

This is Cuming's Ally Pally debut – his one appearance at the Lakeside on BDO duty ended in a 3-0 first-hurdle drubbing by Justin Thompson – and he'll find in Soutar an in-form, free-scoring star.

The Scot should win this pretty cosily.

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