Nordic Darts Masters Betting Tips
Outright – Luke Humphries to win the Nordic Darts Masters
Friday, 8pm: Peter Wright v Johan Engstrom – Johan Engstrom +2.5 Leg Handicap
Friday, 9pm: Rob Cross v Jeffrey de Graaf – Jeffrey de Graaf +2.5 Leg Handicap
*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.
Nordic Darts Masters 2024
The Forum, Copenhagen
TV: ITV/ITVX, Friday & Saturday, from 6pm
Luke Humphries to win the Nordic Darts Masters
The second of three World Series of Darts events in successive weeks sees the PDC return to Copenhagen for the fourth year on the bounce, and it’s a weaker set of elite representatives than we saw at Madison Square Garden last weekend.
Luke Littler and Michael van Gerwen are absent, so Dimitri Van den Bergh and Stephen Bunting step in as the seventh and eighth seeds.
Gerwyn Price and Rob Cross were deserved finalists in New York and they are rightly second and third favourites here but, given the draw, I believe the best course of action is to back Luke Humphries to get back in the winner’s circle.
The world champion is in the same quarter as Peter Wright, and therefore he has the easiest route to the semi-finals of anybody. It would be a meeting with Cross in the last four if the seeds get through the first couple of rounds, but that is by no means a guarantee as Voltage is faced with a tough round one clash against Jeffrey de Graaf, and it would likely be Stephen Bunting next.
Humphries has gone two months without a title which by his standards is a drought, but that is not down to bad form. With Littler out of the picture, Cool Hand is the class of this field and he can prove just that in the Danish capital.
Peter Wright v Johan Engstrom – Johan Engstrom +2.5 Leg Handicap
Taking on Peter Wright in the leg handicap market is an automatic bet at the moment. He made hard work of seeing off Alex Spellman in the first round of the US Darts Masters with an average of 87.75 and was then dismantled by Price the following night.
Johan Engstrom’s stats are very similar to Spellman’s this year and we were offered a 1.5 leg handicap on the American, so I’m more than happy to get the Swede on side with 2.5 leg head start.
Over the last two months, Engstrom has a higher average and a better checkout percentage than Snakebite, so there’s every chance he pulls off an upset but if it does go down to the wire, Wright’s big stage experience may just get him over the line as it did in The Big Apple.
Rob Cross v Jeffrey de Graaf – Jeffrey de Graaf +2.5 Leg Handicap
Swedish darts is on the up, and de Graaf is a big reason for that. The Dutch-born player went on an excellent run at the World Darts Championship in December, recording victories over Ritchie Edhouse and José de Sousa before losing 4-2 to Cross in the last 32.
De Graaf then earned a PDC Tour Card via European Q-School and after a rocky start to the year, the 33-year-old has found his feet on tour and made the final of the Players Championship 10 event last month.
It’s a tall order for him to turn over Cross, but de Graaf is more than capable of keeping it close and racking up the four legs we need for him to cover the handicap.
Darts Betting Tips
Outright – Luke Humphries to win the Nordic Darts Masters
Friday, 8pm: Peter Wright v Johan Engstrom – Johan Engstrom +2.5 Leg Handicap
Friday, 9pm: Rob Cross v Jeffrey de Graaf – Jeffrey de Graaf +2.5 Leg Handicap
*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.
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