Between 2008 and 2012 we backed Suljovic any chance we could, namely the only 2 PDC events he played – the World Champs and the European Champs.
In 2013 the PDC introduced the Euro Tour events and that allowed European based players like Suljovic the chance to play far more events and allowed us to get more bets down on him. Suljovic started winning games and moving up the rankings and playing more and more events until he became a full time fixture in the PDC. But it wasn’t until early 2016 that people finally started to realise how good he was and he started to get recognised as the top 10 player that we know him as today.
In the meantime we were able to get some great value prices on him over the years including…
- Odds of 3.5 v Roland Scholten (October 2008)
- Odds of 3.7 v Wes Newton (December 2010)
- Odds of 5.5 v Paul Nicholson (December 2011)
- Odds of 1.95 v Jerry Hendriks (September 2012)
- Odds of 3.5 v Andy Hamilton (May 2013)
- Odds of 2.38 v Kevin Painter (June 2013)
- Odds of 5.5 v Raymond van Barneveld (July 2013)
- Odds of 2.6 v Mark Webster (December 2013)
- Odds of 2.15 v Christian Kist (February 2014)
- Odds of 4.0 v Robert Thornton (June 2014)
- Odds of 3.75 v Michael Smith (December 2014)
- Odds of 2.15 v Justin Pipe (April 2015)
- Odds of 1.95 v Justin Pipe (September 2015)
- Odds of 4.0 v James Wade (October 2015)
- Odds of 4.33 v Adrian Lewis (December 2015)
As you can see, even as late as 2015 Suljovic was still being priced as an equal to someone like Justin Pipe and a big outsider vs the likes of James Wade and Adrian Lewis. Eventually by 2016 Mensur finally started getting the credit he deserved (sadly for us!) but he is a good example of how players can go under the radar and stay there for many years until they have a big breakthrough moment.