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In this article we will try our best to help you to make the right bets, pointing out the key markets and focusing on how to get the most from them. We will be using BetFair for all of our examples, purely because it has the most markets and the best odds. BetFair is also available to all players in Canada, so get yourself an account and read on to find out the best ways to bet on darts on BetFair in Canada.

Win/Lose

There are no draws in darts and more often than not the difference in class between the two players is considerable. This will change as the tournament gets towards its climax and the best begin to play the best, but in the early stages it is not uncommon to have an amateur playing against the world champion, which means that you will get a huge return by betting on the amateur (if he wins), but will not get anything of note by betting on the world champion.

Unless you are adding these bets to an accumulator, which we will discuss later, then the best thing to do is to leave them until the two players are evenly matched. In the meantime, you can balance the books by using the handicap system discussed below.

Handicaps

Like a spread, a handicap basically gives a head-start to the outsider and takes some points away from the favorite. How many points will be given and taken away depends on how good or bad the players are in comparison to each other. Typically, handicap bets will try to reach odds of 10/11, and this may require a small handicap of -0,5/+0,5 or it might require something much bigger. Handicapping in darts is the same as handicapping in snooker and tennis, due to the fact that there is no time limit on the games, with the winner being decided when they win a certain number of legs.

Long Bets

Simply put, a long bet is a bet that takes a long time to settle. Darts, like snooker, tennis and other single-player games, doesn’t really have a league system. Instead, there are tournaments created all over the world, and the job of a professional darts player is to play in as many of these as he or she can. That means that as a gambler it is your job to follow these players and to keep an eye on these tournaments, backing who you think will win or go far. If you put an Each Way bet on someone to win the tournament, for instance, then you will also be paid if they finish second, although not as much as you would get if they finish first.

Other long bets to contemplate include accumulators. Using the Win/Lose bets mentioned above, for an accumulator you would basically put several of these bets on. There are those that prefer to put their money on a single game, and then put all of the winnings onto the next game, and so on until they are satisfied or until they have hit their required target. This is okay, but an accumulator is better because it will return more money over the course, due to the fact that an extra percentage is added each time you add a bet to an accumulator. This means that if you pick 10 to 12 bets, even if you just stake $1 or $2, then your total returns should be well over $1,000. If you like to think that you know your stuff, then an accumulator is a great way to prove that and to make a lot of money.

Tips

Our main advice for those seeking to gamble on the game of darts is to never bank on a favorite. A big sum lumped on a short-priced favorite for a tournament may seem like a sure-fire thing, but that is not always the case. Darts is a fickle game and one that is played by single players. If your chosen bet has an off-day, if he woke up on the wrong side of the bed, gets frustrated easily, has too much on his mind, etc., then his aim will suffer and you could lose big. This can be used in your favor though, as it makes betting on an outsider a very temping proposition. There are many cases of rank outsiders getting one over on world champions, and although that form is fleeting and they rarely go onto win the tournament, you only need them to win that one match. So, focus on single games and big odds, because that’s where the money is.

It also pays to make sure you get the best odds available to you, and when it comes to rank outsiders, you’ll struggle to find better odds than the ones on the BetFair betting exchange. Outsiders are dismissed readily here and they are often priced at least five times higher on the BetFair exchange than on popular sports books.