Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters prize money
The PDC paid £50k to the eight players at the 2017 Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters, the World Series leg in Dubai, eight of the top players on the PDC Order of Merit over two nights. Winning it was worth £20,000, and the smallest payment at the event was £2,500.
A player is paid once, for where the run ended. The band is the whole of it rather than a step on the way to it, so a player who lost in the semi-finals collected £5,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Read as single payments the four bands come to £50,000, which is the pot. Read as a ladder they do not: the champion alone would take £37,500, against the £20,000 Gary Anderson was actually paid for the title.
What each finishing place paid
The four bands the eight players are divided into
| FINISHING PLACE | PLAYERS | EACH | THE BAND |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 1 | £20,000 | £20,000 |
| Runner-up | 1 | £10,000 | £10,000 |
| Semi-finalists | 2 | £5,000 | £10,000 |
| Quarter-finalists | 4 | £2,500 | £10,000 |
| The whole pot | 8 | — | £50,000 |
What each band took between them
How far each band got
Winning it paid 8 times what the quarter-finalists band paid. Inside a band nothing separates one player from another: the four players who lost in the quarter-finals were all paid £2,500, whether they lost by a leg or by a mile.
The money does not stack
What the champion took, and what a ladder would have paid
This is the one thing about darts money that is worth getting right, because every other prize fund on this site works the other way. A club in the Champions League is paid for reaching the last sixteen and paid again for reaching the last eight, and the run is worth the sum of them. In darts there is no sum: a player is paid for where the run ended and for nothing before it. Multiply each band by the players in it and the total is £50,000, which is what the PDC put up. Add the bands the other way and the champion alone takes £37,500.
Who collected it
Every one of the eight players, and what the finish was worth
| PLAYER | BAND | PAID |
|---|---|---|
| Gary Anderson | Winner | £20,000 |
| Michael van Gerwen | Runner-up | £10,000 |
| Gerwyn Price | Semi-finalists | £5,000 |
| Peter Wright | Semi-finalists | £5,000 |
| Dave Chisnall | Quarter-finalists | £2,500 |
| James Wade | Quarter-finalists | £2,500 |
| Phil Taylor | Quarter-finalists | £2,500 |
| Raymond van Barneveld | Quarter-finalists | £2,500 |
Gary Anderson was paid £20,000 for winning it rather than that on top of every band beneath, which is what makes the four bands add up to £50,000, the whole of what the PDC put up.
Around this on the darts calendar
What else was played either side of it
| EVENT | CHAMPION | PLAYERS | THE POT |
|---|---|---|---|
| German Darts Masters (European Tour) 2017 | Michael van Gerwen | 48 | £135,000 |
| German Darts Open 2017 | Peter Wright | 48 | £135,000 |
| Gibraltar Darts Trophy 2017 | Michael Smith | 48 | £135,000 |
| International Darts Open 2017 | Peter Wright | 48 | £135,000 |
| Auckland Darts Masters 2017 | Kyle Anderson | 16 | £60,000 |
| German Darts Masters 2017 | Peter Wright | 16 | £60,000 |
| Melbourne Darts Masters 2017 | Phil Taylor | 16 | £60,000 |
| Perth Darts Masters 2017 | Gary Anderson | 16 | £60,000 |
| Shanghai Darts Masters 2017 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £60,000 |
| US Darts Masters 2017 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £60,000 |
| PDC World Championship 2018 | Rob Cross | 72 | £1,800,000£1.8m |
| World Matchplay 2018 | Gary Anderson | 32 | £500,000 |
| Players Championship Finals 2018 | Daryl Gurney | 64 | £460,000 |
| Grand Slam of Darts 2018 | Gerwyn Price | 32 | £450,000 |
| European Championship 2018 | James Wade | 32 | £400,000 |
| World Grand Prix 2018 | Michael van Gerwen | 32 | £400,000 |
| UK Open 2018 | Gary Anderson | 128 | £350,000 |
| World Series of Darts Finals 2018 | James Wade | 24 | £250,000 |
| Masters 2018 | Michael van Gerwen | 16 | £200,000 |
| Austrian Darts Open 2018 | Jonny Clayton | 48 | £135,000 |
The 20 events on this site played closest in time to this one, oldest first. Together with the 2017 Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters they paid out £5,895,000.
Frequently asked questions
How much did the 2017 Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters winner get?
£20,000, and Gary Anderson is who collected it. It is the whole of what the champion was paid: there is no separate payment for each round on the way to it.
What was the Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters prize money in 2017?
£50,000 across the eight players. It is split into four bands by finishing place, from £20,000 down to £2,500, and the bands add up to the pot exactly.
What is the smallest payment at the Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters?
£2,500. That is the quarter-finalists band, which covers four players who lost in the quarter-finals. No player at the 2017 event collected less.
Does Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters prize money add up round by round?
No. A player is paid once, for where the run ended, and the band is the whole of it. A player who lost in the semi-finals collected £5,000 and not that plus every band beneath it. Add the four bands up as single payments and they come to £50,000, which is the pot; add them as a ladder and the champion alone would take £37,500.
Which band pays out the most at the Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters?
Winner, at £20,000. Nobody else at the event is paid more in one payment.
Where to next
The rest of the darts money
Gary Anderson took £20,000 here and £2,863,750 in all. Dubai Duty Free Darts Masters prize money puts this edition beside the other 0 we hold. For the other tournaments, see PDC World Championship prize money, World Matchplay prize money, Grand Slam of Darts prize money, Players Championship Finals prize money, World Grand Prix prize money, European Championship prize money, UK Open prize money, World Series of Darts Finals prize money, Masters prize money, International Darts Open prize money, Austrian Darts Open prize money, European Darts Grand Prix prize money, German Darts Championship prize money, Premier League Darts prize money, European Darts Open prize money, German Darts Grand Prix prize money, Czech Darts Open prize money, PDC World Masters prize money, Gibraltar Darts Trophy prize money, European Darts Trophy prize money, Belgian Darts Open prize money, Baltic Sea Darts Open prize money, Hungarian Darts Trophy prize money, Dutch Darts Masters (European Tour) prize money, European Darts Matchplay prize money, Dutch Darts Championship prize money, US Darts Masters prize money, New Zealand Darts Masters prize money, Nordic Darts Masters prize money, German Darts Open prize money, German Darts Masters (European Tour) prize money, Flanders Darts Trophy prize money, Swiss Darts Trophy prize money, Bahrain Darts Masters prize money, Danish Darts Open prize money, Australian Darts Masters prize money, Poland Darts Open prize money, Slovak Darts Open prize money, Dutch Darts Masters prize money, Poland Darts Masters prize money, German Darts Masters prize money, Melbourne Darts Masters prize money, Austrian Darts Championship prize money, Belgian Darts Championship prize money, Auckland Darts Masters prize money, Brisbane Darts Masters prize money, New South Wales Darts Masters prize money, Shanghai Darts Masters prize money, Saudi Arabia Darts Masters prize money, Women's World Matchplay prize money, Perth Darts Masters prize money and Queensland Darts Masters prize money. Darts prize money ranks all 793 players across the £91,450,000 the 268 events paid out. Where a competition pays again at every round rather than once at the end, see Champions League prize money, and for the shape darts shares with football at national level, World Cup prize money.