bet365 US Darts Masters: Start date, venue, format, prize money breakdown, history & more

The bet365 US Darts Masters will return to New York in 2026 and we've got all the details you need to know ahead of the event.

Dates

The bet365 US Darts Masters will be staged across Friday 26th June and Saturday 27th June in 2026.

Prize Money

Winner (1):	£20,000
Runner-Up (1):	£10,000
Semi-Final losers (2):	£5,000
Quarter-Final losers (4):	£2,500
First Round losers (8):	£1,250

Prize money for the bet365 US Darts Masters in 2025 remained at £60,000, with £20,000 of the pot being allocated to the tournament winner. This is expected to remain the same for the 2026 event.

With the event falling under the World Series of Darts banner, prize money won won't be included on the PDC Order of Merit.

Venue & Location

The bet365 US Darts Masters will take place at The Infosys Theatre, part of the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The iconic venue has become synonymous with the only US-based PDC event on the calendar, playing host to it on each of the last three occasions.

Whilst previous editions have been held in the Theatre, this will be the first time that the larger Infosys Theatre has hosted the event.

Line-up and Qualifying

Identically to all other World Series of Darts events, 16 players will toe the oche in New York, with eight of those representing the PDC Tour and the other eight being made up of North American representatives.

PDC representatives

• Luke Littler (ENG)
• Luke Humphries (ENG)
• Gian van Veen (NED)
• Gerwyn Price (WAL)
• Stephen Bunting (ENG)
• Jonny Clayton (WAL)
• James Wade (ENG)
• Josh Rock (NIR)

North American representatives

• Jim Long (CAN)
• Alex Spellman (USA)
• David Cameron (CAN)
• Leonard Gates (USA)
• Gary Mawson (USA)
• Fred Krueger (USA)
• Adam Sevada (USA)
• Brayden Hall (CAN)

Format and Rules

The event is a straight knockout format with first round and quarter-finals ties being contested over 11 legs, before expanding to a best-of-13 format in the semi-finals and best-of-15 in the final.

First round	Best-of-11-legs
Quarter-finals	Best-of-11-legs
Semi-finals	Best-of-13-legs
Final	Best-of-15-legs

History

The 2026 edition of the tournament will be the eighth running of the event, with the first three all having been held on the famous Las Vegas strip before switching to the Big Apple in 2022.

The 2017 event was held at the Tropicana in Las Vegas before Mandalay Bay hosted the players in 2018.

The bet365 US Darts Masters returned to that iconic hotel in 2019 before it then moved to the Hulu Theater in New York in 2022 after a three-year break.

A packed crowd is once again expected to pack into The Theater at Madison Square Garden for the fourth year in a row.