2024-02-06

BetMGM Premier League Darts: Night 2 Preview & Tips as Humphries primed to hit back in Berlin

BetMGM Premier League Darts: Night 2 Preview & Tips

After a show-stopping Night 1 in Cardiff where Michael Smith claimed an impressive victory, attention switches to Germany and Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Area for Night 2. Another stellar set of fixtures is in store as BetMGM Premier League Darts heads to the continent.

Before we look at the night’s action let’s take a quick reminder of the 2024 BetMGM Premier League Darts format.

BetMGM Premier League Darts Format

The BetMGM Premier League will feature a nightly eight-person knockout bracket, where each of the seven matches will be played in a first-to-six-legs format. In the initial seven weeks, players are assured of facing one another once in the quarter-finals while a similar arrangement occurs in weeks 9-15.

The match-ups in weeks 8 and 16 are determined based on the league standings at those respective points. Players earn two points for reaching the semi-finals, three points for finishing runner-up and five points for winning the final.

After the league phase, the top four players in the standings will engage in two knockout semi-finals with the player in first place facing the player in fourth and the player in second taking on the player in third.

The eight darts players participating in the 2024 BetMGM Premier League are:

BetMGM Premier League Darts Night 2 Fixtures

Getting the evening underway in Berlin are Nathan Aspinall and Michael van Gerwen. With both players suffering quarter-final defeats on Night 1, this represents a chance to claim their first victories of the 2024 BetMGM Premier League Darts.

The second match of the evening sees last week’s winner Michael Smith take on Gerwyn Price in a repeat of the final in Cardiff. Can the Welshman claim revenge for the 6-2 defeat on home soil, or will Smith make it two wins out of two? He is 22/25 with BetMGM to do so.

The penultimate game of the quarter-finals sees Luke Littler take on Rob Cross. Both players made the semi-finals on the first night but will be hoping to progress further and get some more points on the board.

Last up are current and former PDC world champions in the shape of Luke Humphries and Peter Wright. Yet to get off the mark in his first full BetMGM Premier League Darts campaign, can Humphries find the form that saw him crowned champion of the world at Ally Pally?

Night 2 quarter-finals in full: Nathan Aspinall vs Michael van Gerwen; Michael Smith vs Gerwyn Price; Luke Littler vs Rob Cross; Luke Humphries vs Peter Wright

15/1 BetMGM Premier League Night 2 Accumulator

Those of you who backed our Night 1 acca will know it was so close to being a winner, with just the final quarter-final match of the evening – Luke Littler vs Luke Humphries to contain over 9.5 legs – letting it down. We’re aiming to go one better with our 15/1 shot for the Berlin round of the 2024 BetMGM Premier League.

Kicking off our Night 2 acca we are backing Michael van Gerwen to beat Nathan Aspinall at 4/11.

The Dutchman seems to have the edge over Aspinall – winning 14 of the previous 20 meetings between the pair – but it is also notable that both come into this one off the back of defeats to newly-crowned Masters champion Stephen Bunting, Asp going down 11-1 and Van Gerwen 11-7.

Next up we have Michael Smith taking on Gerwyn Price and our selection for this is over 6.5 180s [59/50].

Smith is a heavy scorer with three nine-darters in the past four years and hit five 180s in last week’s final alone. While Price struggled to get going in that one, he was prolific with the 180s in last month’s Dutch Darts Masters with 12 in three matches in a similar-length format. Add to that the 570 he hit in 2023 and we’re backing him to recapture his eye for a maximum in Germany.

The penultimate game features Luke Littler vs Rob Cross and our choice here is two or more 100+ checkouts in the match at [5/4]. When the pair met in the 2024 PDC World Championship Littler hit three on his way to victory while Cross landed one, albeit in a longer format, so we’re going for some high-scoring checkouts this time round too.

Finally, we are backing world champion Luke Humphries to be ‘King of the Oche’ in his contest with Scotland’s Peter Wright at 7/5.

Wright has been below his usual standards recently and has averaged just 87 since the start of December last year – ranking 122nd in the PDC over that timeframe while Humphries lies fifth. Humphries should dominate the game by winning the match, hitting the most 180s and landing the highest checkout as he looks to put his stamp on the 2024 BetMGM Premier League Darts.

Night 2 Accumulator

Michael van Gerwen to beat Nathan Aspinall Michael Smith vs Gerwyn Price over 6.5 match 180s Luke Littler vs Rob Cross over 1.5 100+ checkouts Luke Humphries to be ‘King of the Oche’ vs Peter Wright Priced at 15/1 with BetMGM

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Odds correct at time of publication but subject to change

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The 2024 BetMGM Premier League is already shaping up to be an exhilarating battle among some of the best players in the world, culminating in Play-offs Night at London’s O2 in May.

It’s showtime!

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