Today marks the first double session of the Worlds, and this evening sees two-time champion Gary Anderson commence his quest for title #3.
The afternoon session begins with a preliminary clash with Croatian unknown Alan Ljubic facing Ulster bore Brendan Dolan, whose 2017 has been so bad he only made it here via the PDPA qualifier. The First Round resumes with two wildly inconsistent players in tall Dutch lad Benito van de Pas and Scumbag Brother Steve West; Big Ben has been poor in 2017 and Simply's season petered out big time following his implosion at the World Grand Prix. Next up are excuse-o-matic Mervyn King and Austrian #3 Zoran Lerchbacher; King's year has been even worse than those two as he didn't even make it past the last 16 of a major, but with Hypercane's far inferior stage experience, even this shouldn't be that difficult a match for Merv. Scotland's #3 Robert Thornton closes the afternoon against the prelim winner, and like everyone else in this session, has been rubbish; don't be surprised to see him lose to Dolan to piss everyone off.
The evening kicks off with a rather interesting prelim game between Canada's 2016 Lakeside runner-up Jeff Smith and Development Tour winner Luke Humphries. The Silencer returns to the PDC stage after a spell in the BDO where he captured the hearts of many with his amicable attitude, but Humphries is no pushover. It's then a full house of Js beginning with eternal "future World Champion" Joe Cullen against quickfire Jermaine Wattimena. The Rockstar has been much better over the past 12 months but the Machine Gun's pace could unsettle the ex-postie. A Dutch derby follows as Jelle Klaasen takes on Jan Dekker; the Cobra and Double Dekker are polar opposites in terms of speed, scoring and finishing, so this is a real toss-up. Closing the day are Gando and the prelim winner, and if Smith gets here, it could be a very close game indeed.
Coverage starts at 12:30pm UK time on Sky Sports Darts (SS Arena).
Prelims are best of 3 sets, first round best of 5 sets; first to 3 legs in a set.
>Today’s matches (12:30pm start) Alan "Ljube Up!" Ljubic v Brendan "Ulster Dud-Namite" Dolan (P) Benito van de Pas "the Dutchie on the left hand side" (14) v Steve "Right About Now, Scumbag Brother" West Mervyn "The Ex-Governor" King (22) v Zoran "Hyperjobber" Lerchbacher Robert "Once In A Thorntime" Thornton (28) v Ljubic/Dolan
>Tonight's matches (7:00pm start) Jeff "BDO Humiliator #2" Smith v Luke "I'm free!" Humphries Joe "Rock out with your cock out" Cullen (19) v Jermaine Wattimena "Manuh (Doo Doo D-Doo Doo)" Jelle "Yewtree" Klaasen (12) v Jan "Ant &" Dekker Gary "Big Game Counter" Anderson (3) v J. Smith/Humphries
Klaasen/Dekker could easily lose to Dimitri in R2 as well.
Aiden Howard
HYPE!
Matthew Williams
Absolutely not.
Hunter Cook
BRENDEN DOLAN REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WE FINALLY GOT RID OF WEZ AND HAMILTON BUT THIS GUY IS STILL HERE SHITTING UP A COMFY TOURNAMENT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Julian Perry
You've got to lick it, before we can kick it.
Ryan Robinson
I was raging when he kept winning through the qualifier.
Dominic Howard
And we're on now.
Tyler Perry
any streams?
Daniel Cooper
anyone got an acestream thats not constantly buffering?
Nicholas Baker
Cricfree, m8. But I'm quite sure it's the stream is some time behind.
Nolan Peterson
Aileen De Graaf and Co Stompe, oh boy
Adrian Cox
Van den bergh is a cracking little player
Tyler Barnes
>tfw no more BUNT
Anthony Turner
it's not fair
Liam Rivera
...
Sebastian Hernandez
The curse of the clown continues
Nathan Lopez
UH AH
Oliver Wilson
What curse?
Bunt was on the main stage twice at the Players Championship Finals and won once.
Lucas Thomas
>this pace
>le finger-twirl man
Christopher Bell
kek he's so annoying
Luis Cruz
>Dolan has a new shirt >STILL has the date of MUH 9 DARTER on his collar You don't see Paul Lim wearing the date of his 9 darter on his shirt.
Parker Reyes
Lets not pretend he has been anything but shit since that dance
Cooper Reyes
But it was a double-in double-out 9 darter!
David Long
>The History Maker >His entire legacy is one single incident 6 years ago He didn't even win that tournament ffs
Gavin Bell
>beating Mensur >shit
Jordan Cox
DAT DOUBLE DOUBLE TROLL FINISH DOLAN ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SEETHING
William Bailey
BORING BORING TABLES
David Lopez
If he'd refuse to wear that stupid shirt he'd be just an ordinary, albeit little boring player. Like this, he's a joke.
Zachary Clark
Anyone else seething here?
Carter Scott
Dolan showing here why he had to go through the prelim qualifier.
Utter shit from 176 onwards.
Nathan Green
fug
Eli Price
constantly
Jace Bennett
can somebody please post a stream? cricfree and stream2watch both just endlessly loda on all streams and the acestreams are way too jittery
James Robinson
Just turn on the sky box m8
Gavin Morales
...ugh
Cricfree works for me 2bh
Andrew Bailey
i dont have Sky sports, im not rich
Hudson Bennett
wew
Samuel Cooper
Obviously, he's in a deep crisis.
Dominic Gutierrez
Ah, don't worry, he's back on track.
Ethan Roberts
This is the most emotion I've ever seen from Dolan.
