UK Open Qualifier 2 - Sunday 27th February 2011 - Barnsley

[Dannyboy]

Rankings Changes

97 52 Chisnall, Dave England £6,400

52 places - Like it.
is Chissie going to make the top 32 quicker than King did?

Going to take a while. Long long way to go. Cant see him getting there before the World Championship.

[Dannyboy]

Just to give people are more accurate reflection of where every player is at in terms of form - here is the updated points list I produced about a month ago:

Position Change Player Name Nation Prize Money
1 0 Taylor, Phil England 37,970
2 0 Anderson, Gary Scotland 32,160
3 0 Lewis, Adrian England 27,450
4 1 Whitlock, Simon Australia 26,585
5 -1 Wade, James England 26,190
6 0 Newton, Wesley England 25,970
7 0 Walsh, Mark England 23,835
8 0 Jones, Wayne England 22,940
9 1 Caven, Jamie England 21,350
10 -1 Jenkins, Terry England 21,200
11 0 Voort, Vincent van der Netherlands 20,720
12 0 Smith, Andy England 19,880
13 1 Barneveld, Raymond van Netherlands 19,430
14 3 Webster, Mark Wales 19,195
15 1 Tabern, Alan England 19,130
16 2 Osborne, Colin England 19,025
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17 -4 Hamilton, Andy England 19,000
17 -2 Baxter, Ronnie England 19,000
19 0 Lloyd, Colin England 18,725
20 0 Ovens, Denis England 18,340
21 0 Painter, Kevin England 17,070
22 0 Dudbridge, Mark England 16,160
23 0 King, Mervyn England 15,760
24 3 Brown, Steve England 15,620
25 -1 Bates, Barrie Wales 15,615
26 0 Klaasen, Jelle Netherlands 15,385
27 -2 Stompé, Co Netherlands 15,150
28 1 Nicholson, Paul Australia 14,165
29 -1 Priestley, Dennis England 14,115
30 0 Beaton, Steve England 12,630
31 0 Thornton, Robert Scotland 12,505
32 0 Eccles, Tony England 12,120
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33 0 Farmer, Steve England 10,460
34 0 Dolan, Brendan Northern Ireland 10,010
35 0 Wright, Peter Scotland 8,420
36 0 McDine, Kevin England 8,305
37 0 Pipe, Justin England 8,275
38 0 Heydon, Nigel England 7,990
39 0 Smith, Dennis England 7,840
40 0 Burnett, Richie Wales 7,030
41 1 Maish, Steve England 6,860
42 -1 Hine, Steve England 6,730
43 1 Hylton, Mark England 6,620
44 -1 Gerwen, Michael van Netherlands 6,570
45 0 Evans, Steve Wales 6,465
46 2 O'Connor, William Ireland 5,870
47 -1 Thompson, Chris England 5,860
48 2 Part, John Canada 5,825
49 -2 Scholten, Roland Netherlands 5,820
50 -1 Roy, Alex England 5,800
50 1 Shepherd, Kirk England 5,800
52 0 Cullen, Joe England 5,440
53 0 Ayres, Tony England 5,420
54 0 Suljovic, Mensur Austria 4,980
55 0 Caris, Magnus Sweden 4,731
56 0 Roith, Bernd Germany 4,710
57 0 Alcinas, Antonio Spain 4,600
58 0 Welge, Andree Germany 4,300
59 0 Petersen, Devon South Africa 4,133
60 0 McGowan, Mick Ireland 3,770
61 8 Chisnall, Dave England 3,574
62 -1 Magowan, John Northern Ireland 3,510
63 0 Mawson, Gary USA 3,505
64 -2 Monk, Arron England 3,475
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65 3 Clark, Matt England 3,305
66 0 Henderson, John Scotland 3,234
67 -3 Atwood, Wayne Wales 3,220
68 -1 Fullwell, Nick England 3,070
69 10 Smith, Michael England 3,060
70 -5 Mansell, Michael Northern Ireland 3,051
71 3 Johnson, Darren England 3,010
72 -2 Griffiths, Shaun England 2,894
73 -2 Rosenauer, Michael Germany 2,888
74 -1 O'Connor, Shane Ireland 2,844
75 5 Rand, Scott England 2,785
76 -4 Monk, Colin England 2,760
77 20 White, Ian England 2,690
78 -3 Mardle, Wayne England 2,680
79 -3 Smith-Neale, Adam England 2,524
79 -2 Jiwa, Prakash England 2,524
81 -3 Parody, Dyson Gibraltar 2,494
82 14 Crawley, Jason England 2,474
83 8 Frost, Mark England 2,470
84 4 Barnard, Michael England 2,450
85 -3 Young, Darin USA 2,440
86 0 Todd, Mick England 2,424
87 5 Temple, Terry England 2,410
87 13 Jenkins, Andy England 2,410
89 -8 Padgett, Matt England 2,390
90 -7 Jackson, Matt England 2,334
90 -6 Brown, Andy England 2,334
90 -5 Richardson, James England 2,334
90 -3 Woods, Brian England 2,334
94 -4 Bromberg, Stacy USA 2,271
95 -2 Kantele, Marko Finland 2,253
96 -7 Hudson, Peter England 2,245
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97 -2 Wright, Tricia England 2,244
98 0 Dobson, Kenny England 2,220
99 -5 Artut, Jyhan Germany 2,120
100 1 Mann, Jimmy England 2,108
101 1 Gray, Adrian England 2,070
101 3 Turner, Martyn England 2,070
103 0 Jodrill, Mark England 2,031
104 -5 Hardy, Stephen England 2,000
105 0 Jones, Mark England 1,900
106 0 Rowley, Paul England 1,842
107 0 Seyler, Tomas Germany 1,760
108 1 Jopling, Ian England 1,700
109 -1 Duo, Dylan Gibraltar 1,530
110 0 Manley, Peter England 1,320
111 0 Blundell, Louis England 1,280
112 0 Smith, Dave England 1,240
112 3 O'Neill, Aodhagan Ireland 1,240
114 2 Dowling, Kevin England 1,230
114 3 Grubb, Steve England 1,230
116 -2 Welding, Gary England 1,160
117 -4 Dutton, Stuart England 1,110
118 0 Ladley, Dave England 1,000
119 1 Lawrence, Mark England 830
120 -1 Honey, Dave England 810
121 0 Clark, Jason Scotland 800
121 1 MacNeil, Ken Canada 800
123 0 Stephenson, Mark England 770
124 1 Hutchings, Andy England 690
125 -1 Riihonen, Par Sweden 680
126 0 Rodriguez, Carlos Spain 550
127 0 Bezzeg, Nandor Hungary 420
128 0 Komula, Jarkko Finland 270
129 0 Davis, Bill USA 180

[ChrisW]

Rankings Changes

97 52 Chisnall, Dave England £6,400

52 places - Like it.
is Chissie going to make the top 32 quicker than King did?

Going to take a while. Long long way to go. Cant see him getting there before the World Championship.

If he can keep up 6k per month on the smaller events he'll be laughing.

[Spud180]

Obviously the top rankings, is with money not taking off i think.

Just the same as last year, the debate with the uk open games and money won, nt going towards the pcoom.

Obviously there is some benefit, of winning more money in UK open games, as get more money in uk open and dont need to play the pre lims and first few rounds. But i bet anyone outside the top 32 (and 16 if struggling to get in through pcoom) would snap there hands off at if they would swap a Uk open qualifying win for a pc tour win at this stage of the year for all the extra guaranteed prize money.

£6,000 Worlds
£5,000 Matchplay
£4,000 Grand Prix
£2,500 Euros
£3,000 Players Championship finals
£1,000 Uk open
= £21.500 in Guaranteed Prize Money

[foggs3355]

if he makes the final of a players champs and get £3000 with the money he allready won in that table he should allmoast be at the WMP

[trotter]

well done Michael Smith...great for PDC darts that a 20 year old can come out and win events...it certainly seems the right time to have started the youth tour and is sure to attract other youngsters now...they can all see what can be achieved

as for the UK Open rankings..well i like the UK Open...it gives everybody a chance to get to Bolton from a totally level playing field...it has been advertised as the UK Open these events...you can qualify for the later stages by how you do and if you just seeded the top 96 through plus 32 Rileys qualifiers then you stop the dreams of a lot of players...not long ago it would have barred Michael Smith himself from trying..players like David Coyne couldn't come over from Ireland to have a go...Chizzy, Hendo etc were not top 96 so what do they do ?
There are loads of pro tour events to qualify for TV but this is the UK Open....different seedings, bigger fields and a totally different competition altogether..good money as well and it can help you in the OOM so i cannot see the problem

[Dicie]

great run for darren johnson, i played him in killarney few yrs back and i had no doubt then he wud come good, and iv a feeling this is only the start of good things

[GtotheF]

great run for darren johnson, i played him in killarney few yrs back and i had no doubt then he wud come good, and iv a feeling this is only the start of good things

Agree, wanted to give a big shout out and congrats to Darren Johnson on a great run today.

Exciting times on the floor at the moment.

What a win for Smith today following on from Steve Browns victory.

[Angela_ZB]

Wow...what a weekend again. Chisnall is doing some serious business for the Order and new fresh faces are claiming the titles...Brown and Smith very nice. Lost the final at the youth tour yesterday en won the men’s today. Nice to see that the youngsters are performing at the tour

[masticman]

well done Michael Smith...great for PDC darts that a 20 year old can come out and win events...it certainly seems the right time to have started the youth tour and is sure to attract other youngsters now...they can all see what can be achieved

as for the UK Open rankings..well i like the UK Open...it gives everybody a chance to get to Bolton from a totally level playing field...it has been advertised as the UK Open these events...you can qualify for the later stages by how you do and if you just seeded the top 96 through plus 32 Rileys qualifiers then you stop the dreams of a lot of players...not long ago it would have barred Michael Smith himself from trying..players like David Coyne couldn't come over from Ireland to have a go...Chizzy, Hendo etc were not top 96 so what do they do ?
There are loads of pro tour events to qualify for TV but this is the UK Open....different seedings, bigger fields and a totally different competition altogether..good money as well and it can help you in the OOM so i cannot see the problem

100% correct gr8 post

[Justin Credible]

looks like the changing of the guard could have well begun.

These floor comps are just too difficult to call now and are like a lottery

[TROUBLEAGAIN]

Any ideas when the UK open finals tickets are on sale ..

[oche balboa]

8 years ago....A lot as changed

[Ginge]

You are doing it on purpose now.

[ChrisW]

Hang on it was a lottery 8 years ago?

[oche balboa]

Doing what on purpose?

[Ginge]

Doing what on purpose?

Nice try.

Hang on it was a lottery 8 years ago?

No it only became a lottery once Jamie Hughes failed at Q School.

[oche balboa]

No go on Bradders tell me?