PDC Home Tour Betting Tips: Can Dancing Dimitri stop Rob Cross?
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There’s astar-studded line-up in the PDC Home Tour tonight, as former world champion RobCross heads a group which also contains Dimitri van den Bergh, William Borlandand Karel Sedlacek.
2018 Ally Pally winner Cross is 8/11 to top Group 21, with van den Bergh close behind at 15/8. Borland and Sedlacek, both of whom are ranked outside the world’s top 100, are priced at 7/1 and 8/1 respectively.
Can eitherof them spring a shock and replicate last night’s heroics from Ryan Murray? We’vepreviewed three of the night’s encounters below.
William Borland v Karel Sedlacek (20:30)
Four pointscan be enough to win a group in the PDC Home Tour. So, Borland and Sedlacekwill know that whoever comes out on top in this clash will have every chancegoing into their final match of the night.
Both willfancy their chances of picking up the points, even if our traders are unableto split them at 5/6 apiece. Sedlacek, though, has more experience than theemerging Borland, and could take the spoils.
The CzechRepublic arrowsmith reached the last-16 of a Players Championship event inFebruary. This looks set to be a tight contest, and we have Evil Charlie pricedup at 4/1 to scrape through with a 5-3 success.
Rob Cross v Dimitri van den Bergh (21:00)
These twoproduced one of the best tungsten tussles in living memory in their firstmeeting at the 2017 world championship. This set-up is a little different, butwe’re still expecting sparks to fly on the virtual oche.
Cross, who’swon five of his six clashes with van den Bergh, is odds-on to prevail at 4/7.Dancing Dimitri is given a chance at 13/10, although it’s theperformance markets that we’re more interested in here.
Both players are capable of power scoring and emphatic finishing. So with that in mind, we go 2/3 about Over 3.5 180s in the contest and 5/6 for a checkout above 106.5 at any point in the match.
KarelSedlacek v Rob Cross (22:00)
This matchcould end up being decider, or it could end up being a dead rubber. We just don’tknow at this stage. What we do know, however, is that Cross is odds-on at 1/3versus 21/10 for Sedlacek.
Voltage is short-price in most of the other main markets, too. You can get 2/1 about him finishing the match as King of the Oche, while we also go 4/7 about the Matchplay champion winning on the -1.5 Legs Handicap.
All oddsand markets correct as of date of publication.
