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Adrian Lewis has teamed up with one of the UK’s top personality MC-DJ?s Paul Booth to take a new show on the road: TEAM LEWIS ON TOUR!
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The English Darts Organisation is pleased to announce the date of a friendly international England versus The Netherlands darts match
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From Cambridge Evening News:

MARTIN Adams strode into March United Services Club yesterday (Sunday, 21 January) with a big silver trophy tucked under his arm, a £70,000 prize safely in his bank account and a wolfish smile on his face.
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ANDY HAMILTON picked up his first PDC Pro Tour title with a 3-1 win over Colin Lloyd in Sunday’s StanJames.com Players Championship in Gibraltar.

The Stoke star overcame Andy Smith, Roland Scholten, Terry Jenkins and Alan Warriner-Little on his way to the final.

There, he took the first five legs without reply against the former World Number One, to put himself 2-0 up and within touching distance of the win.
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RAYMOND VAN BARNEVELD won the Stan James Players Championship in Gibraltar with a 3-1 victory over Adrian Lewis in the final.

The Dutchman has now won three successive tournaments, adding to his triumphs in the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship and Blue Square UK Open North-East Regional Final with another imperious display on Saturday.

Van Barneveld dropped just three legs in a high-quality final, opening up a two-set lead before Lewis raised his game to win the third and stay in the match.
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Earlier this week Klaasen left the British Darts Organisation to join the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).

But the BDO claims the 22-year-old is under contract to it for another year, and spokesman Robert Holmes told BBC Sport: “We mean business over this.

“That hasn’t always been the case in the past but it’s going to be from now on – we are consulting our lawyers.”
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Dutch trio Jelle Klaasen, Michael van Gerwen and Vincent van der Voort have all followed the path of Raymond van Barneveld in joining the PDC.
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Top seed Martin Adams held off a remarkable fightback by qualifier Phill Nixon to win 7-6 and clinch his first Lakeside World Championship title.
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De Ruiter kept alive Dutch hopes of winning a second world title in two weeks with a thrilling quarter-final triumph over Gary Robson.

Then qualifier Nixon, another man unconsidered as a possible champion at the outset of the tournament, held his nerve after Paul Hanvidge had fought back from 4-1 down to level at 4-4.
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The hostility between the rival darts organisations intensified last night after the British Darts Organisation (BDO) threatened legal action to prevent some of its players from defecting to the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Mervyn King, who is among the four players who are expected to defect, has threatened to leave the BDO before playing his semi-final of the World Championship tomorrow because of the abuse he faced after the story in The Times yesterday.
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