Prize Money
The 2010 World Championship featured a prize fund of £1,000,000 - a rise of £260,000 on the previous year, to become darts' first £1 million tournament. All rounds featured more money compared to 2009, and also sees a £10,000 highest checkout prize being to make the fund go up to a million.
In addition, the losing semi-finalists contested a third place play off match on the same night as the Final, played for an extra £20,000 "winner takes all" pot on top of the £40,000 they both already received for being losing semi finalists. Therefore third place won £60,000, and fourth place £40,000 - both an increase from last years £30,000 for the losing semi finalists.
The prize money is allocated as follows:
- Winner: £200,000 (up from £125,000)
- Runner-Up: £100,000 (up from £60,000)
- Third: £60,000 (up from £30,000 for losing semi finalists in 2009)
- Fourth: £40,000 (up from £30,000 for losing semi finalists in 2009)
- Quarter Finals: £25,000 (up from £20,000)
- Third Round losers: £15,000 (up from £12,000)
- Second Round losers: £10,000 (up from £8,000)
- First Round losers: £6,000 (up from £5,000)
- Preliminary Round losers (8): £3,500 (up from £2,500)
- Highest checkout: £10,000
- Nine darter: £25,000 (up from £20,000)
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