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Darts betting
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
In places where alcohol is consumed, English law has long permitted betting only on games of skill, as opposed to games of chance, and then only for small stakes. An apocryphal tale relates that in 1908, Jim Garside, the landlord of the Adelphi Inn, Leeds, England was called before the local magistrates to answer the [...]
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Darts competitions
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Professional competitions The major tournament within both the PDC and BDO organisations are the World Championships which take place at the start of each year. The BDO tournament has been running since 1978, the PDC tournament since 1994 and in 2006 the first prize offered and total prize fund of the PDC World Championship was [...]
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Professional organizations for darts
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
The badges worn by WDC players at the 1993 World Championship Of the two professional organisations, the British Darts Organisation (BDO), founded 1973, is the older. Its tournaments are often shown on the BBC in the UK, and on SBS6 in the Netherlands. The BDO is a member of the World Darts Federation (WDF) (founded [...]
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Playing darts
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
A game, or “leg”, of darts is usually contested between two players who take turns in throwing up to three darts. Starting from a set score, usually 501 or 301, a player wins by reducing his score to zero. The last dart in the leg must hit either a double or the inner portion of [...]
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Soft tip boards and darts
Friday, April 24th, 2009
A selection of soft tip darts and components; included are brass, nickel/silver and nickel/tungsten bodies, various tips, and different shafts and flights. A relatively new type of board is the soft tip board, which is made of plastic and cast with small holes (about .08 inches, or 2 mm) in the face. The soft tip [...]
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Darts scoring
Saturday, April 11th, 2009
A double bullseye. The standard dartboard is divided into twenty numbered sections, scoring from one to 20 points, by wires running from the small central circle to the outer circular wire. Circular wires within the outer wire divide each section into single, double and triple areas. Various quite different games can be played (and still [...]
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Darts
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Darts in a dartboard Darts is a game, or rather a variety of related games, in which darts are thrown at a circular target (dart board) hung on a wall. Though various different boards and games have been used in the past, the term ‘darts’ usually now refers to a standardized game involving a specific [...]