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BDO News Release:

CORAL MAKE GARY ANDERSON LAKESIDE FAVOURITE

After a fantastic year, Scotland?s Gary Anderson has been made 9/4 favourite by Lakeside?s official on-site bookmakers Coral to win the 2008 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship.
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The 2008 Ladbrokes.com PDC World Darts Championship, to be held at Alexandra Palace from 17 December-1 January.

The tournament begins with four first round matches in the evening of Monday 17 December, with last year’s quarter-finalist Alan Tabern taking on Denmark’s Per Laursen in the opening game on the new Alexandra Palace stage.
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From Dartplayersaustralia.com:

There can be no happier man this side of the oche than BHS member Patrick Chaplin, of Maldon, Essex.

After ten years of self-funded, intensive, part-time postgraduate research, Patrick has been awarded a PhD by the Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge ? the title of his dissertation being ?DARTS IN ENGLAND 1900-1939 ? A SOCIAL HISTORY?.
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From SportingLife.com:

The clash between the 13-time world champion and Holland’s talented teenager is the pick of the 32 first round matches at the Christmas showpiece event.

Van Gerwen through a nine-darter against Raymond van Barneveld at the Dutch Open earlier this year to underline his quality and Taylor knows he is in for a tough test.
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Photos courtesy Lawrence Lustig/PDC

Phil Taylor won the inaugural PartyBets.com Grand Slam of Darts with an 18-11 victory over Andy Hamilton at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall.

Taylor showed some of his finest form in a brilliant display in the final, crucially taking nine successive legs in the middle of the game to establish a 14-5 lead.

Hamilton, in his first major final, battled superbly against his Stoke rival and hit back to 16-9 at one stage before Taylor sealed the victory.
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Photos courtesy Lawrence Lustig/PDC
PHIL TAYLOR and Andy Hamilton will contest the final of the PartyBets.com Grand Slam of Darts on Sunday following two thrilling semi-finals at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall.

Taylor, the number two seed, edged out WDF number one Gary Anderson 13-11 to remain on course for another major title in his incredible career.

Anderson supported his status as number three seed with a marvellous performance against the 13-time World Champion, taking out three ton-plus finishes and landing nine 180s
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Photo courtesy Lawrence Lustig/PDCLeading seeds Phil Taylor and Gary Anderson will meet in the semi-finals of the PartyBets.com Grand Slam of Darts on Saturday afternoon.

The duo, seeded second and third for the tournament, progressed past John Part and Kevin Painter respectively to set up a mouth-watering last four encounter at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall.

Taylor held off a John Part fightback to prevail 10-7 against the Canadian double World Champion, averaging almost 100 in a strong display.
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ITV Wildcard qualifier Kevin McDine continued his dream run at the PartyBets.com Grand Slam of Darts with a stunning 10-3 defeat of Jelle Klaasen.

The 22-year-old knocked out number four seed James Wade on Wednesday, and booked his place in the semi-finals with another assured display.

He continued to show no nerves on the big stage to storm past the former World Champion with ease.

He was 4-0 up before Klaasen got off the mark, and landed eight maximums to average 99 for the match.
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Oxygen Interactive has released new details about its upcoming game release, along with a downloadable move trailer of the game. This is the second installment of the popular darts game, and it will be released in January 2008.
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BDO Media Release:

LAKESIDE COUNTRY CLUB has announced that it is extending its title sponsorship of the Lakeside World Professional Darts Championships to 2010.

This follows the recent announcement by Bob Potter, OBE, proprietor of Lakeside, that prize money for the 2008 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championships is being increased to a record-breaking available prize fund of ?310,000.
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