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| It wouldn’t be unusual to immediately think of Phil “The Power” Taylor or Ray Barneveld when you think about betting on darts. However darts betting has had a history in sports betting for the last hundred years. |
| You can bet on almost anything in darts, from the outright winners of major darts competitions, the winners of set rounds and even the outcome of individual throws. For more in depth information on darts bets please navigate the top of this page. |
| There are two major darts tournaments that take place each year. The BDO tournament has been running since 1978, and the PDC tournament since 1994 and in 2006 the first prize offered and total prize fund of the PDC World Championship was £100,000 double that offered by the BDO tournament. |
| A game of darts is contested between two players who take turns in throwing up to three darts. They start from a set score, usually 501 or 301, and a player wins by reducing his score to zero. The last dart in the leg must hit either a double or the inner portion of the bullseye, which is the double of the outer bull, and must reduce the score to exactly zero. |
| As well as being a professional competitive sport, darts is a traditional pub game, commonly played in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Israel, the Scandinavian countries, the United States and elsewhere. |
| On premises where alcohol is consumed, English law has long permitted betting only on games of skill. An apocryphal tale relates that in 1908, Jim Garside, the landlord of the Adelphi Inn, Leeds, England was called before the local magistrates to answer the charge that he had allowed betting on a game of chance, darts, on his premises. Garside asked for the assistance of local champion William "Bigfoot" Anakin who attended as a witness and demonstrated that he could hit any number on the board nominated by the court. Garside was discharged as the magistrates found darts, indeed, to be a game of skill. More recently, in keeping with Darts' strong association with pubs and drinking, matches between friends or pub teams are often played for pints. |
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