PDC Darts World Grand Prix Betting 2017 Winner Odds & Predictions

Favourable draw gives Anderson a chance at title

Darts Betting

Sunday brings around the start of the next World Grand Prix darts tournament which will now be the 20th edition of the tournament. It kicks off on the 1st and runs through to the 7th at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. Heading back to the tournament as the defending champion is Michael van Gerwen who got the better of Gary Anderson in last year’s final. This tournament adds a bit of an extra pressure on the players because this is a “Double In, Double Out” event so they players need that accuracy at both ends of every leg.

The winner will collect £100,000 from the £400,000 prize pot and the standards 32 man field is there with the top sixteen from the PDXC Order of Merit being joint top 16 non qualified players from the Pro Tour Order of Merit. There is no Phil Taylor competing this year. He was going as fourth seed by has withdrawn from the tournament. That was a boon for Robert Thornton (who won this in 2015), who was 17th on the PDC or Merit and therefore didn’t qualify until Taylor dropped and he filled in as the new 16th seed as everyone from 5th down moved up a spot.

PDC Darts World Grand Prix Betting

Michael van Gerwen 4/5, Gary Anderson 5/1, Peter Wright 7/1, Mensur Suljovic 22/1, Daryl Gurney 28/1, Raymond van Barneveld 33/1, Adrian Lewis 33/1, Rob Cross 33/1, Dave Chisnall 33/1, Michael Smith 40/,1 James Wade 40/1, bar 66/1

Michael Van Gerwen

He is the top seed, not unsurprisingly. But he has had a couple of misses recently with a misfire at both the World Match Play and at the Champions League of Darts. Still, he’s collected the World Darts Championships, The Masters and The Premier League Darts titles this year along with three other PDC minor finals, so it’s not been a bad year. When he’s on his game, he is unstoppable and he could face a quarter final shot against countryman Raymond van Barneveld. The two paired up to win this year’s World Cup of Darts. MVG was beaten by Taylor at the World Match Play and then again in the group stage of the Champions League by The Power, which surprisingly eliminated the Dutchman who had already lost against Van Barneveld. So that quarter final showdown here, if it happens, will be cracking. Still, Mighty Mike is the outright favourite for a reason, but there have been a few cracks lately and the three times champion could be worth opposing as he has never won it back to back.

Gary Anderson

The Scotsman ran through to the final of the Champions League recently where he was surprisingly edged out in the final by Mensur Suljovic. But it was good form along the way, especially as he totally destroyed Phil Taylor in the semi finals. Anderson reached last year’s World Grand Prix final, falling to Van Gerwen there. The title has so far eluded him in his career. However, the draw is well in his favour in this one and can dominate the third quarter. The bottom half of the draw overall is much weaker than the top half and that’s the place to be. Well worth a punt on him coming through the field to win this.

Peter Wright

Looks a pretty decent wager here does Wright. He ran to the final of the World Match Play and should have beaten Gary Anderson in their final group stage match of the Champions League recently. He couldn’t check out though but you would imagine that he’s been working hard on that to rectify the situation and could come back stronger for the experience here. He remains a shot in the dark though having not even been the to final of World Grand Prix before. His big challenge could be against Suljovic in the quarters other than that, it’s not a bad draw. With Wright and Anderson down in the less-congested bottom half, Scotland at 9/4 in the Winning Nationality market at Unibet has some appeal.

Mensur Suljovic

Can the Austrian pull out another shock win? Really his victory at the Champions League was out of nowhere. Granted though he could have been helped at the semifinal stage surprisingly meeting Raymond van Barneveld instead of Van Gerwen, but he took his chance and held his nerve in the final, despite having a lesser three-dart average than his opponent Gary Anderson in the match. That was a huge triumph for him, but another big victory is hard to picture happening straight away.

Daryl Gurney

Made quite the splash this season has the Northern Irishman. With semi final appearances at theUK Open and the World Matchplay this year, along with a PDC World Championship quarter finals, he has been ramping it up a little bit. Unfortunately, he has landed a bit of a stinker of a draw though in the top half where he starts against fourth seed Adrian Lewis and could meet Chisnall or Thornton in the quarter and the Barneveld of Van Gerwen in the semi’s. A title is not too likely to happen here.

Raymond van Barneveld

He will have taken a lot of heart in having beaten Van Gerwen in the Champions League recently. There is just a lack of titles from him through which will make punters avoid him and probably rightly so. He has been to the final of the World Grand Prix before, back in 2008 and 2009 where he lost both finals against Phil Taylor.

Prediction

With MVG just a little hit and miss lately having shown some vulnerabilities, there is value in looking at Anderson or Wright from the bottom half as both had produced some decent form lately. Because of the nature of the tournament though, it would have to be Anderson to back as Wright is just a little iffy with those doubles at times.