Premier League Darts Belfast 2026 Predictions: Cool Hand to star in boosted double

The Premier League continues and it's a trip to the Emerald Isle on Thursday for our regular eight PDC superstars...

Our resident darts tipster Sean Rafferty is back with his Premier League Darts Belfast 2026 Predictions, including a double thats been kindly boosted by our Betfred traders...

Premier League Darts 2026 Odds

Jonny Clayton +3.5 legs vs Luke Littler @ 4/9

Jonny is living up to his reputation of loving the Premier League so far - The Ferret managed to back up his 100% record in the opening round matches by winning the night in Glasgow last week. He defeated Price, Littler and Van Veen on his way to the weekly title and did it in rather comfortable fashion, winning his matches 6-3, 6-1 and 6-2. The Welshman averaged 100, 101 and 104 in those wins that have seen him to top of the table after three nights of action.

You have to feel Littler is just a ticking time-bomb waiting to explode in this year’s Premier League - The Nuke has drawn a blank in the opening three nights which means he sits sixth in the league table, despite being gifted two points last week due to Van Gerwen withdrawing in a walkover win.

Just one win in four matches isn’t what we’ve come to expect from the World Champion and you feel it’s just a matter of time until things click on the Premier League stage, given his form’s still very good elsewhere. Littler won the inaugural Poland Darts Open at the weekend, nobody got close to him in all honesty as he averaged 106+ in three of his five matches.

Littler will be seeking revenge this week as Clayton did smash him 6-1 in their semi final last Thursday. Although I think he may succeed, I don’t see it happening without fending off a fight from Jonny - Clayton has won two of their six previous meetings, only losing heavily in two of those matches.

He can come here feeling next to no pressure at all due to him accumulating so many points in the first three weeks, he’ll have the luxury of viewing this match as a free hit and that should allow him to relax and play close to his best level, which should be enough to see him win at least three legs.

Luke Humphries -1.5 legs vs Stephen Bunting @ 8/13

The horrible start that Bunting probably feared he could have continues, as The Bullet continues to search for his first points after three defeats from the opening three nights. You could argue the performances haven’t been all that bad - he’s averaged between 97 and 100 in all of them, but ultimately he still hasn’t came that close to winning any of them, losing each of them by two or more legs. His doubles continue to be the main concern, with a checkout percentage of less than 36% in six of his last seven matches in all competitions.

Humphries won’t be best pleased with his start to the Premier League, having yet to make a nightly final which sees him sit outside the top four at the moment. Form elsewhere has been pretty consistent - Cool Hand picked up his first ranking title of the year in Wigan last week at a Pro Tour event, he’s also made the semi finals or better in three of the last four ranking events he’s participated in, recently producing a run of eight consecutive averages of 100 or more. He’s lost a lot of tight matches, mainly to Littler and Van Veen, but I don’t see him having any issue dominating this one.

Cool Hand has come up against Stephen twice in the space of the last two weeks and ran out a comfortable winner on both occasions, registering 6-1 and 6-3 victories. The pair met in last year’s Premier League four times, with Luke winning by two or more legs in three of them.

Overall, Humphries is looking stronger in every department than his opponent and with the pressure continuing to mount on Bunting in his quest for a first win, we could well see more poor finishing from Stephen and I fully expect him to be punished.

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