BetMGM Premier League Darts Night 5 Preview & Tips: Can anyone stop Van Gerwen?

A pulsating Night 4 of 2024 BetMGM Premier League Darts saw Michael van Gerwen triumph for the third week in a row in Newcastle.

As the competition rolls into Exeter this week attention turns to which, if any, of the other seven players can stop the Dutchman from claiming an eighth BetMGM Premier League Darts title.

After overcoming Gerwyn Price and Luke Littler in Newcastle Van Gerwen triumphed over Nathan Aspinall – who got his first two wins of the competition in the north-east – in the Night 4 final.

Night 5 in Exeter promises to be yet another cracker but, before we share our picks for our acca as well as our weekly specials, let’s take a run-through of the BetMGM Premier League fixtures for the visit to the south-west.

BetMGM Premier League Darts Night 5 Fixtures

Having won the last three nights, it seems suitable that Michael van Gerwen would be first up in Exeter. He takes on world champion Luke Humphries who, having been runner-up to Van Gerwen in Glasgow, was defeated at the quarter-final stage in Newcastle by Rob Cross. Cool Hand will be hoping to get his BetMGM Premier League campaign back on track as he sits sixth in the table at this early stage despite carrying the highest average (101.5) of any player.

Nathan Aspinall finally hit some form on Night 4, getting his first wins of the 2024 competition and eventually finishing runner-up to MVG. The Asp takes on the winless Peter Wright in the second quarter-final this week. Snakebite is showing signs of his old self on the floor events and in Newcastle, where he averaged 103 and missed a match dart before eventually going down 6-5 to Luke Littler.

In the penultimate game The Iceman Gerwyn Price takes on Cross. Price was beaten by Van Gerwen in Newcastle and is yet to progress past a semi-final since finishing runner-up on his home night in Cardiff on Night 1. Cross lost out to Aspinall last week but made the semis for the second week in a row and will be hoping to go one step further in the south-west.

Rounding off the quarter-finals is the only nightly winner not named Van Gerwen so far this year: Michael Smith. Bully Boy won the first night in Cardiff but has lost in the quarter-finals for the past two. He takes on Littler, who has one runner-up finish so far. Can the youngster finally take the next step and become champion in Exeter on Night 5?

Night 5 quarter-finals in full: Luke Humphries vs Michael van Gerwen; Nathan Aspinall vs Peter Wright; Gerwyn Price vs Rob Cross; Luke Littler vs Michael Smith

20/1 BetMGM Premier League Darts Night 5 Accumulator

We have put together a 20/1 acca to get you in the mood as the 2024 BetMGM Premier League visits Exeter.

Michael van Gerwen and Luke Humphries kick off Night 5 and we are heading straight to the 180s market for this one. Van Gerwen had the joint-highest maximums in Newcastle while the week prior Humphries topped the 180s chart. Add on to that the fact they sit fifth and second respectively in the PDC’s maximums list over the past year and we are adding over 6.5 180s in their quarter-final tie to our acca for Night 5 at 6/5.

Next up we have the runner-up in Newcastle, Nathan Aspinall, facing Peter Wright. With Snakebite still looking for a win and sitting bottom of the table, the Asp will be eyeing this one as a way to get off to a good start for the second week running.

Wright will have other ideas after we saw glimpses of the two-time world champion’s old self last week. If he is feeling it again in Exeter this becomes a genuinely close one to call. The Scot lost out 6-5 to Luke Littler last week while Aspinall’s matches on Night 4 contained 11, 10 and 10 legs respectively – as such we are opting for over 9.5 legs here at 17/20.

We have Gerwyn Price and Rob Cross battling it out next in a match between two players who have liked the sound of a 100+ checkout so far in the competition.

Price has topped the nightly charts for ton-plus checkouts twice so far, including a 170, with Cross taking the mantle in Glasgow with a 144. The pair sit first and third respectively in the overall 100+ checkouts list this BetMGM Premier League Darts season, with Price six in seven matches and Cross five in seven. Both to check out 100+ in their Exeter quarter-final tussle is 2/1.

Sticking with checkouts, the final game throws up an interesting match-up between Littler and Michael Smith. A 170 in Newcastle saw Littler’s celebration go viral when he hit the bullseye while Smith has reeled in a big fish of his own already this campaign too. Rounding off our acca for Night 5, therefore, is a bullseye finish in the match at 11/10.

Night 5 Accumulator

Michael van Gerwen vs Luke Humphries over 6.5 180s
Nathan Aspinall vs Peter Wright over 9.5 legs
Gerwyn Price and Rob Cross both to hit a 100+ checkout
Luke Littler vs Michael Smith to contain a bullseye checkout

Priced at 20/1 with BetMGM

Odds correct at time of publication but subject to change

Night 5 Odds & BetMGM Specials

As well as our own acca, BetMGM carries odds on a plethora of markets for Night 5 of Premier League Darts action.

After winning three nights in a row, Michael van Gerwen can break the BetMGM Premier League Darts record by winning four consecutive nights and it is no surprise that he starts as 11/4 favourite to win Night 5. MVG has also won in Exeter in both 2022 and 2023 so he may well take some stopping as he looks to break even more records.

Trying to halt his charge will be Luke Littler, 3/1, who will feel it is time he got one over on the three-time world champion after two league defeats to him already this term as well as a loss in the final of the Dutch Darts Masters.

Behind those two front-runners is PDC world champion Luke Humphries at 9/2 while Michael Smith – the only player in the 2024 BetMGM Premier League who has beaten MVG as well as the only other nightly winner this year – is priced at 10/1 to triumph in Exeter. Last week’s runner-up Nathan Aspinall, meanwhile, is available at 8/1.

We are of course still awaiting the first nine-dart finish of the 2024 BetMGM Premier League campaign. The fact remains, though, that no darts competition has featured more perfect legs, so can Exeter be the night we finally see a nine-darter? We have odds of 8/1 for a nine-dart finish to be hit at any point during the night.

We also have some BetMGM Specials for Night 5 for you to check out. Exactly 50 maximums were hit overall in both Night 3 in Glasgow and Night 4 in Newcastle last week and we have priced up over 5.5 180s in each quarter-final match at 8/1.

Elsewhere, Michael van Gerwen, Nathan Aspinall, Gerwyn Price and Luke Littler all to win their quarter-final ties, something which only the Iceman failed to do in Newcastle, sits at 7/1.

On top of that you can get 11/2 for MVG, Price and Aspinall to hit the highest checkout in their quarter-finals. Aspinall did so last week against Michael Smith while Price and Van Gerwen faced one another and both hit a 100+ finish.

BetMGM has a host of other markets available before the night gets underway as well as in-play options throughout the evening, so be sure to keep an eye on the BetMGM Premier League Darts Hub over the course of Night 5.

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