2012 Premier League Darts Betting – Week 2 Aberdeen – 16.02.12

Race for early supremacy heads North of the Border

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Premier League Darts Betting – Week 2
It’s on to week two of the 2012 Premier League Darts betting, and we are in Aberdeen. Week one produced one of the greatest Premier League matches ever as Adrian Lewis and Phil Taylor, team mates at the recent World Cup, went toe to toe in a thrilling 7-7 draw. Surprisingly, after round one, the two new boys to the Premier League occupy the top two spots, with defending champion Gary Anderson looking to get his first points on the board this week.

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Adrian Lewis v Raymond van Barneveld 2012 Premier League Darts betting
Interesting starts on week one of the new season for these two. Last year’s losing finalist Adrian Lewis hung on for a thrilling 7-7 draw against old rival Phil Taylor to open with. It was such a high scoring match, with double World Champion Lewis firing off a fantastic 104 three dart average, but was still outscored by Taylor. But, at the end of the day he won’t have been happy with the point, because he was 5-0 up in the match. He let a big chance get away here, as things were heading to a similar pattern as week one last season, when Lewis thumped Taylor 8-2. However, there was a sting in Taylor’s tail this time around. Lewis is in good form at the moment though, World Champion, World Cup winner and looking much more consistent. He takes on Raymond van Barneveld, who, for all his big talk, completely stuffed it up at the World Championships. Says he’s pretty much playing the best he can, and outscored Simon Whitlock on week one, but couldn’t finish the match, and also drew 7-7. Lewis is the more powerful of the two at the moment, Barneveld was the more consistent out of the two in last season’s Premier League though. Still, Lewis is favourite.
Lewis 5/6, Barneveld 2/1, Draw 9/2 at Boylesports

Gary Anderson v Andy Hamilton 2012 Premier League Darts betting
Defending champion Gary Anderson blew his lines a little bit last week in a scrappy match against new boy Kevin Painter. Anderson lost 8-6 in a low quality, low scoring match, where he barely broke an 80 three dart average. The loss against England’s Painter will have been a huge disappointment and will look to get his challenge going this week, as he starts with the darts against the other new boy, Andy Hamilton. Hamilton though rattled off a very good win of his own in his first Premier League darts match, taking out the experienced James Wade 8-5. Hamilton looked confident and took his chances well, and didn’t show any early nerves in the tournament, having the darts advantage being the ‘home’ player. There’s a long way to go, but a good start from Hamilton and should take heart from Painter taking out Anderson last week. Anderson looks the stronger bet with the bookies and will have to play better than last week.
Anderson 8/13, Hamilton 5/2, Draw 9/2 at SkyBet

Phil Taylor v Kevin Painter 2012 Premier League Darts betting
Taylor, a recent World Cup winner, was scoring phenomenally last week in his opener against Adrian Lewis. Lewis got the best of Taylor twice during last season’s Premier League, most crucially in the semi finals. So Taylor came out and fired a 112 three dart average (it was over 114 at one point in the match), which is stunning, and Taylor had to fight his way back from 5-0 down to tie 7-7, against the darts. That was one of the best Premier League darts matches ever, and shows why Taylor and Lewis are the main protagonists in 2012 Premier League darts betting. Painter will have been thrilled to have taken out Gary Anderson in his first ever Premier League match. In a low scoring affair, Painter edged the match 8-6 over the defending Champion, who was really slow out of the blows. Still, facing an on fire Taylor is a different kettle of fish, and the bookies are favouring a heavy Taylor victory.
Taylor 2/7, Painter 13/2, Draw 13/2 at Ladbrokes

Simon Whitlock v James Wade 2012 Premier League Darts betting
Aussie Whitlock will have been happy enough with his point against Raymond van Barneveld in his first match. The Wizard was outscored but hung in there to take a point in the end. Whitlock has decent experience in this format and should be better than he generally produces. Bit of a consistency problem for him, could put together a top four charge, but an outside bet. Wade was generally lack lustre and poor throughout last year’s tournament, but did string a few results together for some respectability. Struggles to get back to his highest standards at time, and therefore this match against Whitlock could be a bit of a slog fest. The difference could be in Whitlock’s favour as he has the darts in this match as the ‘home’ player. Could make a difference, and the Aussie looks just a touch more confident.
Whitlock 20/21, Wade 6/4, Draw 9/2 at Bet365