That was the tournament that was

Crikey, how unpredictable was that? Sure, Littler winning isn't a big shock, but Lukeman into the final, Mansell into the semis, that was a bit nuts. It's done the following to the FRH rankings (I have incorporated first round PC Finals money already but the top 40 is unaffected):

1 Luke Humphries

2 Luke Littler (UP 3)

3 Michael van Gerwen (DOWN 1)

4 Rob Cross (DOWN 1)

5 Dave Chisnall (DOWN 1)

6 Stephen Bunting (UP 1)

7 Damon Heta (UP 1)

8 James Wade (UP 2)

9 Gary Anderson (UP 11)

10 Michael Smith (DOWN 5)

11 Jonny Clayton (DOWN 2)

12 Danny Noppert

13 Chris Dobey (DOWN 2)

14 Mike de Decker (UP 4)

15 Josh Rock (UP 4)

16 Dimitri van den Bergh (DOWN 1)

17 Ross Smith

18 Ryan Searle (DOWN 4)

19 Gerwyn Price (DOWN 6)

20 Peter Wright (DOWN 4)

Following his final, Lukeman is now just on the brink of the top 32, while Mansell has just crept into the top 40. It is weird to see Price and Wright that low, but they've at least got chances to rectify things, and have about a 10k gap to Schindler below them. van Veen and Wattimena solidify top 30 positions, while Menzies climbs a couple of spots up to 38. But obviously the big one is Littler - although he is over 600k behind Humphries, such is the dominance that Luke has had in the past year and a bit.

There's a piece I want to do on 180 betting at some point this week, and I'll need to get thoughts for the PC Finals out as well, so stay tuned. Weird to think that this time next week, we'll have the worlds draw, but we will!