BetMGM Premier League Darts Night 3 Preview & Tips: Third time lucky for Littler?
It’s Night 3 of the 2024 BetMGM Premier League Darts with the ever-impressive OVO Hydro in Glasgow on hosting duties.
A thrilling evening in Berlin last week saw seven-time champion Michael van Gerwen triumph over Luke Littler in the final to claim his first nightly victory of the 2024 tournament and, with a few players still to get off the mark, Scotland promises to pick up where Germany left off.
Before we select our Night 3 accumulator, let’s take a run-through of the BetMGM Premier League fixtures for the first of the competition’s two visits to Scotland this season.
BetMGM Premier League Darts Night 3 Fixtures
First up in Glasgow, 2018 world champion Rob Cross takes on Night 1 winner Michael Smith. Defeated in the semi-final by Michael van Gerwen last week, Smith will be hoping to get back on track against Cross, who exited at the quarter-final stage on Night 2.
Fresh from victory, Van Gerwen takes on Scotland’s Peter Wright in the second clash of the evening, with Snakebite hoping the home crowd can spur him on to a first victory of the 2024 Premier League. It won’t be easy against MVG however, who staged two huge comebacks on his way to victory in Germany.
The penultimate game pits Nathan Aspinall against PDC world champion Luke Humphries. After leading 4-1 in the quarter-final on Night 2, Aspinall went on to lose 6-4 against Van Gerwen and will be looking to claim his first 2024 BetMGM Premier League Darts win against Humphries, who lost to Luke Littler for the second week in a row in Berlin.
Rounding off the quarter-finals is Littler himself as he takes on seven-time PDC major winner Gerwyn Price. After losing 6-5 in the final last week Littler faces the Iceman, himself a beaten finalist this year too after losing to Smith on Night 1 in Cardiff.
Night 3 quarter-finals in full: Rob Cross vs Michael Smith; Michael van Gerwen vs Peter Wright; Nathan Aspinall vs Luke Humphries; Gerwyn Price vs Luke Littler.
12/1 BetMGM Premier League Darts Night 3 Accumulator
After our Night 2 acca came in at 15/1, those of you who backed it will no doubt be waiting patiently for our Glasgow tips. Before that, though, let’s take a look back at the winning selections from last week as we look to make it another successful night.
The Winning 15/1 Night 2 Accumulator: Michael van Gerwen to beat Nathan Aspinall @ 4/11; Michael Smith vs Gerwyn Price over 6.5 match 180s @ 59/50; Luke Littler vs Rob Cross over 1.5 100+ checkouts @ 5/4; Luke Humphries to be ‘King of the Oche’ vs Peter Wright @ 7/5.
To kick off Night 3, we’re going for over 1.5 100+ checkouts when Michael Smith faces off against Rob Cross. With Smith hitting four in this season’s competition already – including a 170 last week – and Cross having registered ton-plus finishes on both nights so far, this looks good value to add to the acca at 6/4.
Last week’s victor Michael van Gerwen is up against Peter Wright who, despite pushing Luke Humphries in Berlin, remains winless. Even though the home crowd will be roaring Wright on, he has not won a Premier League match in Glasgow since 2017. It is difficult to look past the Dutchman in this one; MVG hit 13 180s while averaging 102.8 across his three matches in Berlin and is 4/5 to hit over 2.5 maximums in this game.
Also winless this year is world number four Nathan Aspinall, who faces a tricky game against Humphries. World champion Humphries struggled on Night 1 but regained some momentum last week, narrowly losing to Luke Littler.
He did toil again at Players Championships 1 and 2 in midweek though – going down 6-0 to Ian White and 6-5 to Jurjen van der Velde respectively – so Aspinall will be looking to push him all the way in Glasgow. With all of the games on Night 2 containing over 9.5 legs, we’re backing this to happen again in the penultimate quarter-final at 10/11.
Completing the quarter-finals is a highly anticipated match between Luke Littler and Gerwyn Price. We’re expecting a cracker of a contest and are backing Littler to just edge it if he can build on his average of 101.77 from Night 2, especially likely given he is fresh from his debut win at Players Championship 1 in Wigan earlier this week.
Price had a tricky time in the same tournament, culminating in him withdrawing from his match, so Littler to win at 3/5 completes our acca for Night 3 of the 2024 BetMGM Premier League Darts.
Night 3 Accumulator
- Michael Smith vs Rob Cross over 1.5 100+ checkouts
- Michael van Gerwen to hit over 2.5 180s vs Peter Wright
- Nathan Aspinall vs Luke Humphries over 9.5 legs
- Luke Littler to beat Gerwyn Price
Priced at 12/1 with BetMGM
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Night 3 Odds & Specials
As well as our own acca, BetMGM carries odds on a plethora of outcomes for Night 3 of Premier League Darts action.
Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price both hit 170 checkouts last week – if you fancy there will be a repeat of the feat in the quarter-final games this time round then one in Smith vs Rob Cross is 8/1 and one in Price vs Luke Littler is 15/2. You can also get 5/2 with BetMGM for a 170 checkout in any match for a 170 checkout in any match during the evening.
Michael van Gerwen is the favourite to be crowned overall winner of Night 3 at 11/4. The Dutchman is favoured just ahead of Luke Littler, who is 3/1 to claim his first-ever BetMGM Premier League Darts victory. If you fancy the Scottish crowd to roar on Peter Wright and help him overturn his recent run of poor form, you can get odds of 40/1 for him to win his home night.
We have odds of 8/1 for a nine-dart finish to be hit on Night 3. Luke Littler was the last of the Premier League’s eight players to hit a nine-darter and has already hit two in 2024, in the Bahrain Masters last month and the Players Championship event in Wigan earlier this week. No PDC event has contained more nine-dart finishes than the BetMGM Premier League’s 14 – will Glasgow bring us the first perfect leg of this year’s tournament?
BetMGM has a host of markets available before the night gets underway as well as in-play throughout the evening, so be sure to keep an eye on the Premier League Darts event page over the course of the matches.
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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.
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