Coral sponsor Players Darts Championship 2009

Top online betting company Coral have stepped up to the oche to take on the role of the official sponsor of the Players Darts Championship 2009. The top 32 darts players from last years Players Championship will compete to hopefully lift the trophy of this inaugural Coral Players Darts Championship 2009. The action kicks off on Friday 30^th January at the leading darts venue, the Circus Tavern in Essex which was previously the venue for the PDC World Championships.

The Managing Director of Gala Coral Keith Hawkins, is as excited as the PDC Chairman at the prospect of Coral being associated with this exciting new event on the darts calendar, saying “Betting on darts has exploded in recent years, and it’s entirely fitting that Coral.co.uk is sponsoring the Players Championship.”

Coral have all the best online betting odds and currently the odds on favourite to win is Phil (The Power) Taylor at 4/7, his walk-on music for competitions is ‘I’ve got the Power’ by Snap. Sports promoter Barry Hearn, more famous for his association with some of the top boxers such as Lennox Lewis and Nigel Benn, now picks up the darts gauntlet, believing Darts will become the next big thing in sports, he is also involved in bowling, golf, bowls, poker, snooker and pool. Hearn has stated that the average age of a darts fan has almost halved. dropping from 45 to almost 25 over the last five years, this is as more and more youngsters get interested in this traditional pub game.

Online betting fans will have to wait until the first round evening session on Friday of the Coral Players Darts Championship 2009, to see if Taylor really does ‘have the power’ as both himself and the bookies predict, and whether he has any chance of walking away with the £50,000 top prize for winning. The competition will be screened live on ITV4 over the three days that the competition is being played.