Players Championship 6: Free Tips, Prediction and Odds

The world's best players, as well as the PDC's rank and file, gather at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester on Wednesday for Players Championship 6.

It is the sixth of 34 Players Championship events played over the course of 2025 offering prize money and Order of Merit ranking points.

There is also a stand-alone PC Order of Merit, with the top 64 after the 34 events going on to play in the Players Championship Finals in Minehead in late November.

Players Championship 6 free betting tips and predictions

Gerwyn Price to win PC6 - 12/1

A field of 128 players will gather at the Mattioli Arena in Leicester for Players Championship 6 and there are no prizes for guessing who the favourite is.

Luke Littler will toe the oche just a few days after producing another dazzling display, this time in Wiese to land the Belgian Darts Open.

Having been crowned world champion in the first week of January and UK Open champion two weeks ago, it seems everything Littler touches turns to gold.

The 18-year-old has also won two of the five Premier League mini-leagues and will be going for a hat-trick in Nottingham on Thursday.

In Belgium at the weekend he was irresistible, lobbing in ton-plus averages to take care of Luke Woodhouse, Dave Chisnall, James Wade and Mike De Decker.

Littler just loves hoovering up majors and TV titles but that doesn't mean he won't be trying his hardest to dot up on the floor, in front of no fans, at PC6 in Leicester.

The absence of a stage, crowd or TV pressure, does level the darting playing field and Littler's two previous Players Championship tilts before this week have ended in a last-32 defeat to Joe Cullen and a last-eight loss to Gerwyn Price.

The latter was in Players Championship 2 which Price went on to win and, indeed, after the first four PC events the Welshman was topping the averages at a fraction under 100.

The Iceman, who has also reached the Bahrain Masters final and won a Premier League mini-league, looks back to his old self in 2025 after a fairly loveless 12 months.

He also threw really well at the weekend in Belgium where he averaged 112.42 in a stunning 6-2 thrashing of dangerman Gian van Veen, topped the ton again beating Damon Heta 6-3 and just lost a tight quarter-final against De Decker.

Without a crowd to get on his back, expect multiple floor winner Price to be a contender on Wednesday as he gets into gear for Thursday night's Premier League challenge just up the road in Nottingham.

Josh Rock to win PC6 - 40/1

All the top players have gone to Leicester, so expect the cream to rise to the top.

World No.1 Luke Humphries, like Littler, will be fancied while De Decker, after his run to the final in Belgium, will have his confidence through the roof.

Others, the likes of Michael Smith, Stephen Bunting and even Michael van Gerwen, look to be struggling.

Wade and Jonny Clayton are defying the odds with great starts to the year and Josh Rock, a good deal younger than those two, is also in good form after a tricky 2024.

Rock was going to be the next big thing after Grand Slam heroics in 2023, but it's been a slow burn to get back to those heights for the Northern Irish star, but the signs are all really positive.

He signed off 2024 by winning the 30th and final Players Championship heat and two weekends ago beat Ross Smith, Rob Cross and Nathan Aspinall to reach the semi-finals of the UK Open.

He reached four PC finals in 2024, indicating maybe that he thrives far from the madding crowds and that will always make him a contender at a venue where he has triumphed before.

Luke Woodhouse to win PC6 - 150/1

The big guns are ready to fire and the roll of honour in PC events in 2025 suggests the best players are flying.

But good mid-ranking players are also in form, for example, world No.32 Luke Woodhouse, who made the quarter-finals of the first PC event in January.

Woody produced one of the performances of the weekend in Belgium with a fabulous 6-2 demolition of Gary Anderson, averaging a shade over 100, before losing to Littler, but only 6-4.

He's been riding a wave since reaching round four of the worlds and is just the sort who is ready to pick up a winner's cheque on the main tour. Maybe this is the time.

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Players Championship 6 odds

Luke Littler - 7/2
Luke Humphries - 11/2
Michael van Gerwen - 10/1
Gerwyn Price - 12/1
Gary Anderson - 20/1
Rob Cross - 20/1
Chris Dobey - 25/1
Stephen Bunting - 25/1

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