PDC Grand Slam of Darts- 10th-18th November 2018- Wolverhampton

[Ginge]

Does the 25k 9-dart bonus count towards the OOM? I presume not.
If not, Dmitri is now 1 win away from the top 32.

They never count. And never will.

[craigmc]

Payne playing better than I expected. Another good game but can't stand the gurning from tanfastic

[ssjsa]

Stats from that Bunting vs Dimitri match, courtesy of Premium Dart Data

[BOOM]

Apart from that 9 darter, the standard's been woeful tonight. What are these averaging here?

[WizardofozFan]

Dancing Dimitri with a magical nine-darter, wow. Outstanding, and also from the Wolverhampton crowd too.

Remember posting on here a few years ago how much I liked Dimitri and how I thought he could achieve lots in the game with time. Has shown such maturity so young, would definitely have him as a contender for the Premier League, simply because he can produce it on the big stage. Look at the World Series this year, the Worlds last year, and now this event. Way more entertaining than the likes of Barney anyway, someone who loves his darts too.

That was nothing to do with how well he plays darts if memory serves me correctly.

Haha, well he is cute, but above all else he seems a lovely guy!

[ssjsa]

Apart from that 9 darter, the standard's been woeful tonight. What are these averaging here?

After the 1st 10 legs:

Price 94.31
Payne 84.60

[BOOM]

Apart from that 9 darter, the standard's been woeful tonight. What are these averaging here?

After the 1st 10 legs:

Price 94.31
Payne 84.60

Cheers. Surprised Price's is even that high tbh.

[ssjsa]

Richard Ashdon
@LittleRichard

- 53rd TV 9 darter
- 37th on @SkySports
- 25th man to hit a TV 9 darter
- 14th refereed by @Russ180
- 4th in the Grand Slam of Darts
- 2nd youngest player
- 2nd Belgian
- 1st for @VandenBerghDimi

[craigmc]

Surprised there's been that many

[Mgt]

This match is too long for Payne in this phase of his career. Price's experience paying off.

[craigmc]

Payne gone to crap after 5_5. Price was there for taking

[devosteve]

Bunting blew that leg after the 9 darter.

Dimitri played garbage. He tried to calm down (you could see him looking for encouragement from his team, I guess). Who knows how the game would have panned out. Saw Newton hit a 9 darter at Blackpool, and then lose. Reckon bunting could have pushed on if he had won that leg.

[ssjsa]

Payne gone to crap after 5_5. Price was there for taking

Price's body language even when winning shows he knows he was far from his best.

[ssjsa]

Wednesday November 14 (1900 GMT)

Stephen Bunting (88.14) 6 (19) 10 (90.16) Dimitri Van den Bergh
Gerwyn Price (93.37) 10 (19) 5 (84.10) Josh Payne
Rob Cross v Mensur Suljovic
Peter Wright v Simon Whitlock

Thursday November 15 (1900 GMT)

Jonny Clayton v Krzysztof Ratajski
James Wade v Michael Unterbuchner
Gary Anderson v Wesley Harms
Michael Smith v Michael van Gerwen

[ssjsa]

Stats from that Price vs Payne match.

Courtesy of TheRedbit.

[devosteve]

Short feature there on removing plastic from pdc events.

went to my local music festival this year (head to the hills - Ramsbottom ). No plastic throw away cups but rather a non disposable pint cup. You paid a quid for it on day 1 then handed it in for every subsequent pint and got a fresh one. You went home with one (memento I guess, head for the hills printed on side)

last few years there would have been dozens of plastic cups on the ground after the gig. Not this year.

[craigmc]

Don't enjoy watching either Gentle or Cross just hoping it's close as have no interest in which gets through.

[ssjsa]

Fantastic 22 leg break of throw from Mensur.

[ssjsa]

Averages after the first 5 legs:

Cross 84.27
Suljovic 85.22

[MrLil8]

This is shocking.