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Monday, 7 March 2022

2022 - World Seniors Darts

The bet: £1 e/w Lisa Ashton @ 16/1

Placed by: P

What happened: Forgot to post this at the time but Ashton crashed out early to terry Jenkins if I remember rightly.

Wednesday, 19 January 2022

2022 - PDC World Darts

(I've carried this in to the 2022 account period to make things easier.)

The bets: 

Florian Hempel - £1 e/w 66/1
Peter Wright to win the final to win 7-4 or 7-5 - £3 at 10/3

Placed by P:

What happened: Hempel crashed out the very next round but Wright did beat Michael Smith 7-5 in the final to net us £13.

Monday, 29 November 2021

2021 - Players Championship Darts Finals

The bet: A tentative 50p e/w on Ryan Searle @ 35/1

Placed by: P

What happened:

After a couple of early scares Searle was beaten 11-10 in the final by Peter Wright. £9.25 to the kitty.

Sunday, 25 July 2021

2021 World Matchplay Final

The bet: Peter Wright to win 18-13 or 18-14 - £2 @11/2

Placed by: P

What happened: Wright raced into an 8-2 lead and although Dimitri van den Bergh got the deficit back to four at one point Wright raced away to an 18-9 win.

Friday, 16 July 2021

2021 Open Golf

The bets: All £1 e/w 1/5th the odds, 8 places

Scottie Scheffler
Xander Schauffele
Branden Grace
Garrick Higgo
Justin Thomas

Placed by: K

What happened:

Scheffler was tied for fourth going into the weekend, four shots off the lead.
Thomas and Schauffele made the cut but were 10 and 11 shots back respectively.
Grace and Higgo missed the cut.

After three rounds Schauffele had slipped to two over with Thomas level par. With the leader on 12 under Scheffler was tied fourth, four shots back...

... Thomas finished tied 40th at one under, a 65 on the last day saw Schauffele finished tied for 26th at three under. Schauffele stumbled to a +1 final round to leave him eight behind the winner but in a tie for eighth place giving us a pick up of £2.75.

Friday, 18 June 2021

2021 US Open Golf

The bets: (All £1 e/w, a fifth the odds first six)

Xander Schauffele @ 22/1
Jon Rahm @ 12/1
Patrick Cantlay @ 30/1
Garrick Higgo @ 50/1
Scottie Scheffler @66/1

Placed by K:

What happened?:

Higgo missed the cut but the other four were all in for the weekend. After Saturday's play Cantlay looked out of the running but the rest were all in the top ten.

On the final day Cantlay finished with a two under par round to finish one over for the tournament and tied for 15th.

Schauffele and Scheffler finished tied seventh, one place outside the money on one under.

Rahm finished birdie-birdie to pip Louis Oosthuizen to the title.  Get in! £17 in the pot.

Euro 2020

The bets:

Pre- tournament

France to win - £4 at 9/2
France win, Romelu Lukaku Top Goalscorer & Ngolo Kante to be UEFA Best Player of the Tournament - 50p @150/1

Placed by P:

What happened... France were dumped out by Switzerland in the last 16 so that was the ended of that but never fear, we go again.

Quarter-final lucky 15 - £1.50

Spain 3 Switzerland 1
Belgium 3 Italy 2
Denmark 3 Czech Rep 0
England 2 Ukraine 0