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Kist a machine on the 60. If Hankey gets through he will have to pull out every trick in the book to even make it competitive.

Kist has been by some distance the most impressive player this week. Bit of a revelation performance as he hasn't done an awful lot before on the circuit in the big events. A Last 16 at the World Masters would be his best far, but there can be little doubt that on current form, he's the man to beat here.

I've just read the Anastasia, Gulliver report on the BDO website. Quite incredible, and just goes to show how bitter some within the organisation are that she left to join the PDC when she was world champion.

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Anastasia wins it 2-1. She'll be feeling smug as f**k after that article that was published on the BDO website when she beat Trina Gulliver in the semi finals.

In a repeat of the 2008 world final, the Somerset third seed failed for the first time to reach the final as the unseeded East European played mind games to topple the Golden Girl.

Arrogance and self confidence exuded from the Russian but Gulliver let her darts do the talking, as took the opening leg against the throw after Dobromyslova missed 10 doubles.

A maximum steered the Golden Girl to the next, the snarling black-shirted Russian taking the third on double 12 and in the fourth she set the pace, levelling the match on double 12 and turning to salute the crowd, the Somerset player bemused by her opponent’s behaviour.

Dobromyslova, clearly slowing the game and playing the crowd, missed double 18 for a set-winning double 18 and a further three for the same double but it was catching - Gulliver missing bull for 81 to steal the set. The Russian made no mistake on her return to the oche, nailing double 18.

The unseeded player – who beat Gulliver in the 2008 world championship seemed to grow in confidence with her mind games over the tense nine times world champ, who fluffed darts for doubles in the opening leg of the second as the Russian exited on 56.

Gulliver was first to the double in the next leg but missed double five for 95, Dobromyslova missing bull for 121. The Golden Girl missed a further two chances as the underdog clinched her favourite double 12 to move within a leg of victory.

Again in the third, the player from Cheddar requiring 105 saw her form desert her as she hit 92, opening the door for Dobromyslova to move into her second final with a match-winning 50.

Can only imagine that was written by Gulliver or her agent. Mind Games ? Darts is built on mind games ? Are you not allowed to milk the crowd after hitting a big double ? Strange place the BDO.

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