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The champion of the 2023 Premier League Darts campaign will be crowned on Thursday night at the 02 Arena - with four of the world's best competing for a share of £570,000.
In the first of two semi finals, Welsh compatriots Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton will go head-to-head in London, having finished first and fourth in the overall standings respectively. And in a titanic second final four clash, title holder Michael van Gerwen will take on current PDC world champion and world No 1 Michael Smith.
Those games will be best of 19 legs, with the two winners proceeding into the final. And the decisive match will be best of 21 legs, and history could be made with 'MVG' gunning for what would be a record-breaking seventh title win.
How much money will the final four make?
Whichever player prevails in London tonight, it won't just be silverware they take home. The champion will receive £275,000, with the runner up receiving less than half that amount at £125,000.
Of course, the lucrative windfall is likely to be bigger than either of those amounts when bonuses from sponsors and associated companies are paid out. And for the winner especially, further endorsements are likely to follow.
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Neither of the losing semi finalists will be going home empty handed either. They will have the mere consolation of £85,000 in prize money as reward for finishing in the top four of the table.
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Michael van Gerwen is chasing a record breaking seventh title (Godfrey Pitt/Action Plus/REX/Shutterstock)What's been handed out already?
It's fair to assume that Nathan Aspinall, Dimitri van der Bergh, Chris Dobey and Peter Wright will all be looking on with envy tonight, having themselves missed out on one of the biggest occasions in their sport. But the value of simply being selected for the elite league is all too apparent in their own earnings.
Aspinall was fifth, and has therefore reeled in £75,000. Belgian van der Bergh was just a place behind him, and has received £70,000 for his efforts.
Just two points behind 'The DreamMaker' was Dobey, but that slender margin is worth £5,000 with the Englishman being handed £65,000. And despite a wretched campaign for two-time world champion Wright, in which he failed to win a single tournament, 'Snakebite' has earned £60,000 for finishing rock bottom.