It has not taken long for pre-tournament favourites Luke Humphries and Luke Littler to stamp their class on the 2025 Premier League and the world’s top two are going to take some budging.
World No.1 Humphries won on Night 1 in Belfast, while world champion Littler triumphed on Night 2 in Glasgow and they are each going to be warm orders at the 3Arena in Dublin on Thursday in Night 3.
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Premier League Darts – Night 3 Tips
- Luke Humphries most 180s v Stephen Bunting @ 6/5
- Gerwyn Price to beat Luke Littler @ 12/5
- Nathan Aspinall to beat Rob Cross @ 11/10
- Chris Dobey +1.5 v Michael van Gerwen @ 5/6
Cool Hand can out-max The Bullet
Luke Humphries and Stephen Bunting kick off Night 3 in Dublin with the world No.1 a 2/5 shot, which makes little appeal.
Bunting beat Humphries en route to landing last month’s Bahrain Masters and had been playing well, while Humphries needed two big fightbacks last week against Chris Dobey and Gerwyn Price to reach the final.
Bunting, however, is struggling in the Premier League – his checkout percentage is the lowest of the eight and he has only hit four 180s in his two games played, both losses. Humphries should win but is better value at 6/5 to pile in more maximums.
No doubt Gezzy can land nice Price
Gerwyn Price and Luke Littler met three times in last year’s Premier League and the Welshman won one of those.
He has also beaten The Nuke this year, albeit in a Players Championship contest on the Wigan floor.
But The Iceman is playing well, has points on the board, a title under his belt in 2025 and just looks overpriced at 12/5, no matter how well Littler has been performing.
Price got no love from the Glasgow crowd but in Dublin, against an Englishman, he should get some relief.
The Asp can strike in downtown Dublin
With Humphries and Littler in the top half of the draw it means we can’t have the two of them contesting a second successive final.
And it also means the bottom half of the draw looks wide open with no obvious favourite.
Rob Cross takes on Nathan Aspinall in the third quarter-final, a fixture that was played five times in last season’s Premier League with The Asp bagging the lot. He’s got to be worth chancing at 11/10 and then to go on and make the final.
The fourth quarter-final pits Michael van Gerwen against Chris Dobey in a repeat of their World Championship semi-final which the Dutchman won 6-1.
Dobey was a finalist on Night 1 and went 4-2 up against Humphries last Thursday before losing four legs on the spin.
Hollywood also won a Players Championship heat in Rosmalen on Monday, so as the underdog, he could be worth backing in the handicap market with a 1.5-leg start.
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