Darts is a form of throwing game in which darts are thrown at a circular target (dartboard) fixed to a wall. Though various boards and rules have been used in the past, the term "darts" usually now refers to a standardised game involving a specific board design and set of rules. As well as being a professional competitive sport, darts is a traditional pub game, commonly played in the United Kingdom, across the Commonwealth, the Netherlands, Belgium, Republic of Ireland, the Scandinavian countries, the United States, Canada, and elsewhere.
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... Sean Palfrey is a Welsh professional darts player who currently plays in the Professional Darts Corporation ... He was a regular in the British Darts Organisation World Professional Darts Championship, where his best result was reaching the quarterfinals in 1998 ... for the Welsh men team in the WDF World Cup darts competition in 1997 ...
... had allowed betting on a game of chance, darts, on his premises ... More recently, in keeping with darts' strong association with pubs and drinking, matches between friends or pub teams are often played for pints ...
... these having been displaced from route D6 by new Darts ... converting the route to single deck, although the new Marshall Darts were not ready for a few months ... The Arrows had a nominal capacity of 99 and the Darts 55, which is barely half the reduction in seating, from 77 to 28, meant that even with the ...
... Leroy Kwadijk is a Dutch darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events ... Kwadijk made his PDC debut in the 2007 Thialf Darts Trophy, reaching the semi finals ... He then reached the last 32 of the 2007 PDC German Darts Championship, beating Peter Manley in the first round and then beat Jamie Caven before losing to Mark ...
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