250/1 outsider Richie Edhouse picks up PDC European Championship title in remarkable fashion

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The PDC darts calendar is ticking away with just three ranking TV events remaining in 2024, players are starting to prepare for the big one at the Ally Pally.  We’re looking at how the European Darts Championships unfolded with a shock winner picking up the best win of his career so far.

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00:00Richie Edhouse upset the odds to win Darts' Machine Seeker European Championship in Germany.

00:07The St Leonard's player was a 250-1 outsider prior to the four-day event in Dortmund, and

00:13had never previously gone beyond the last 32 in a televised tournament.

00:18But he played superbly to win five matches, two of them against former world champions

00:23to claim the trophy and £120,000 winner's prize.

00:27Edhouse has also risen ten places to a career-high 29th on the PDC Order of Merit.

00:33Speaking on stage after thrashing Jermaine Wattamina 11-3 in the final, he said this

00:38is unbelievable.

00:39I just want to get a couple of wins under my belt and see what happened, so this is

00:44a dream come true.

00:46Edhouse's success in Germany has also earned him a spot in November's Grand Slam of Darts

00:50in Wolverhampton, another major TV tournament, and he looks set to be among the seeded players

00:56for the World Darts Championships in December.

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