Grand Slam of Darts day six predictions, darts betting tips & odds

Free darts tips, best bets and analysis for day six of the Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton.

Where to watch

Sky Sports Main Event & Arena, 7pm Thursday

Best bets

M van Gerwen -3.5 legs
1pt 11-10 Betfair, Paddy Power

M Smith most 180s v J Cullen
1pt 6-4 Betfair, BoyleSports, Paddy Power

Day six preview

The Queen of the Palace takes centre stage in Wolverhampton on night two of the Grand Slam's knockout stage, but it's the Knight of the Lowlands who stands out as the bet of the night.

Fallon Sherrock continues her one-woman crusade through the darts record books – she's now the first female to reach this stage of the competition – and she'll be confident of going further having famously beaten her second-round opponent Mensur Suljovic at the 2020 World Championship.

Suljovic, it has to be said, is playing better now than he was back then and rightly merits favouritism. But he couldn't cope with the pressure at Ally Pally two years ago and there are no guarantees he'll hold himself together now, because the one thing we know about Sherrock is that she is utterly fearless.

Mighty Mike, of course, has no such issues. The ultra-confident Dutchman – such a big noise back home that he was knighted in 2018 – won all three of his group games, dropping just three legs in total, and can see off old rival Gary Anderson with something in hand.

They met at this stage last year, when the Green Machine won 10-2, and he would expect to dominate from the off and cover the spread.

It isn't often Michael Smith is the outsider in a 180s matchbet and, given what we know about Bully Boy's treble-20 hitting, you'd have to come up with a watertight argument for not wanting to get with him at odds-against whoever he is taking on.

Joe Cullen is his opponent in the last 16 and there's no doubting Rockstar is a prodigious compiler of maximums himself. Having hit 11 during the group stage – two more than Smith in five fewer legs – it's understandable where the oddsmakers want to be.

But over the course of the whole 2021 Pro Tour campaign – and that's an appreciably bigger body of evidence – Smith averages a 180 every 3.0 legs, Cullen one every 3.2.

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