Darts Betting Tips Today: Premier League Finals Night

Thursday delivers one of the biggest nights of the darts calendar, and our darts betting tips take us to The O2 Arena in London for the 2026 Premier League Darts Finals Night.

With £350,000 going to the winner from a record £1.25m purse, every leg matters.

Luke Littler tops the bracket as the No.1 seed after finishing the regular season on 43 points - two short of his own all-time Premier League record of 45 - and two years on from his nine-darter in the 2024 final. He'll face fourth seed Gerwyn Price in the opening semi-final, a man he's beaten six times out of six in 2026 Premier League meetings.

The other half of the draw pits Welsh second seed Jonny Clayton against the man in the form of his life - defending champion Luke Humphries. Cool Hand averaged 110.98 in the Birmingham final to beat Price 6-4 a fortnight ago, dispatched Littler 6-3 in the Birmingham semi and then 6-1 in the Sheffield semi, and won Players Championship 17 in Leicester last Monday with a tournament average of 104.74.

With the bracket having sent Littler and Humphries to opposite sides, the stage is set for a third consecutive Premier League final between the pair, with the head-to-head currently 1-1 across 2024 and 2025.

Darts Betting Tips: Two Semi-Final Calls

The night opens with Luke Littler against Gerwyn Price. Littler is around 1/5 and will be the banker, but a straight win is no value. Price has yet to beat Littler in the best-of-11 Premier League format this year and was visibly rattled in Sheffield, with his semi-final against Bunting interrupted by a booing spectator. Add in the longer best-of-19 format, which historically punishes Price's all-or-nothing scoring profile, and Littler should pull clear once the tempo settles - Littler -2.5 legs around 10/11 looks the safer way in. The teenager has cleared this number against Price comfortably in their 2026 match-ups.

James' darts tips can be picked up at 10Betand prices are accurate as of 11pm on Wednesday 27 May. 

The second semi-final pits Jonny Clayton against Luke Humphries. Clayton has one win in his last six Premier League matches and was beaten 6-3 by Stephen Bunting at the quarter-final stage in Sheffield - albeit with his place at The O2 long secured, and his form sagging accordingly.

The Ferret was once 3-1 up in 2026 meetings with Humphries, but Cool Hand has flipped that narrative since Dublin, and the gap in averages over the last five nights is significant. Humphries, by contrast, averaged 102.23 in losing the Sheffield final to Bunting, hit four 180s in his 6-1 destruction of Littler, and has reached three of the last four nightly finals. Humphries -1.5 legs at Evens is the darts betting tip selection for this one.

Darts Tips: Humphries To Defend His Crown

Despite Littler being the outright favourite, Luke Humphries at 15/8 with 10Bet is the standout darts betting tip of the evening.

The defending champion has timed his run perfectly - a Players Championship 17 title in midweek, a Night 15 victory in Birmingham, and back-to-back 6-3 and 6-1 demolitions of Littler. By finishing third in the regular season, he has maneuvered himself onto the opposite side of the bracket to the world number one, with Clayton in the semi-final before a likely rematch against Littler in the final. Humphries also has the format on his side - last year's final went 11-8 in his favour over a longer best-of-21, where his consistency outlasts Littler's bursts.