The Oche Life Podcast

Podcast dedicated to the Darts lovers with top guests & fun with each episode had! Something for everyone!

The Oche Life Podcast is a sports podcast hosted by TheOcheLife, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #15

  Ep 15 Alex Spellman (The Articulate Methodology of a Master Darts Craftsman)

  Aug 14, 20261h 43m

  In this latest episode it was a pleasure to be joined by 5x PDC North American Tour title winner, 2x CDC Continental Champion & 2x PDC World Darts Championship participant Alex Spellman calling in from Fuquay-Varina in North Carolina, in what is a busy schedule for The Jackal I'm thankful for his time. Alex also legit has one of the coolest symbols in the game with The Jackal symbolised on every event jersey! Alex is from North Carolina, USA and first tried his hand at Darts when his father needed a spare hand to play in a game and having played on a board growing up would give it a go where he even admitted he didn't really know the rules but gave it a go anyway. It would be in the lockdown period of 2020 when Alex would properly try at Darts and seen improvement each time he played. Carefully developing super steady and smooth throwing style, Alex would start appearing on the American Darts scene who he is a proud ambassador of still to this day. Alex is also a well respected Darts Coach and uses very articulate methodology from past experiences on tour into his clients to make them much better players giving them guidance every step of the way. Only a professional for 6 years and by his standards still a novice on the big stages and still looking to get better, Alex has won CDC (North American Tour) Continental Cup twice, was top of North American Tour Order of Merit Standings in 2023, hit a 9 dart finish against Sylvain Bordeau at 2024 CDC Cross Border Challenge, played on Modus Super Series defeating a certain Luke Littler 3 times they have played, 5x North American Tour title winner, stacks of WDF ranked American titles, 2025 Grand Slam of Darts participant and of course a 2x PDC World Championship participant in 2024 averaging 97 in 3-1 defeat to Ryan Joyce then this past World's running into Gabriel Clemens. We learn more about Alex as a person, very down to earth, humble and always approachable as well as future goals. The Jackal was a fantastic guest and can't thank him enough, I hope you all enjoy as much as I did! Download via Podbean, Apple & Spotify.

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  Episode #14

  Ep 14 Tom Sykes (Looking to go one step further)

  Jul 22, 202656 min

  I was pleased to be joined by PDC Pro & recent European Tour semi finallist on his debut 'The Castleford Tiger' Tom Sykes as he takes time to chat after a good start to PDC life with numerous good performances on PDC Pro Tour & of course making it all the way to the Semi Finals in Bratislava defeating the likes of Niko Springer, Martin Schindler, Cameron Menzies & Jermaine Wattimena before in his own words running out of steam a little bit in the semis against Former World Champ Rob Cross, still a magnificent achievement from the Tiger. Tom is from Castleford in West Yorkshire and got started with a throw in the house before going to the pubs as an 18 year old to start playing competitively. Outside of Darts, Tom is a big fan of Rugby League side Castleford Tigers & loves to play Golf with a handicap of around 14. In 2014 Tom would play in the BDO World Trophy giving him some valuable stage experience to take forward and would ply his trade for a few years on Challenge Tour while making a couple of unsuccessful efforts at PDC Q School. Modus Super Series has transformed Tom's game into being able to playing well consistently over the past 2/3 years winning Modus Super Series title a couple of times and making a few Finals. 2025 would see Tom make his PDC Major Debut at UK Open in Minehead defeating Thibaut Tricole 6-1 before losing 6-4 to Willie O'connor in R2 while this year would see Tom make it to R3 defeating Arno Merk 6-4 & Cristo Reyes 6-4 before narrowly losing 10-8 to Kai Gotthardt in R3 at Minehead. Tom will compete in Hungarian Darts Trophy on European Tour after defeating Peter Wright, Piero Ljubic & Greg Ritchie to qualify for Hungary which I wish him all the best for. Find out how Tom manages to get on in the ending segment The Nickname Quiz can Tom get 8/8 right? Find out in the episode! Download via Podbean, Apple & Spotify. Cheers Tom!

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  Episode #13

  Ep 13 World Matchplay Preview with Sean Rafferty

  Jul 14, 20262h 8m

  In the first Oche Life Podcast episode in 4 months, we are back with the podcast as myself & Betfred's Sean Rafferty do a full preview into next weeks World Matchplay at Winter Gardens with some expected consensus picks as well as a few left field picks in the first round matches. We predict the matches by bracket and predict the quarter winners to make the semi finals as well as do score predictions for the matches and who we inevitably think will become this year's World Matchplay Champion. Can anyone topple Luke Littler going back to back? Had a fun chat about some events just passed with Sean and look out at some future stars. Download via Podbean, Apple & Spotify! Take a listen if you could. Bumper episode but fully detailed!

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  Episode #12

  Ep 12 Huw Ware (How to deal with the whistlers)

  Mar 3, 20261h 6m

  In the first episode of 2026 I was pleased to be joined by one of the elite darting referees and host of Tops & Tales Podcast 'Houdini' Huw Ware who kindly spent some time on the podcast amongst a very busy schedule on PDC circuit. Huw would play at 2011 WDF World Cup in Aberdeen for Wales and would play against the likes of Jeffrey De Zwaan, Jimmy Hendriks & would even beat recently crowned WDF World Champion Jimmy van Schie in a best of 1 leg match in that event. A very cool achievement. Huw would start refereeing local darts matches and would get his break refereeing on the BDO circuit at World Masters at a young age and would get the chance to ref a couple of matches at BDO World Darts Championship at Lakeside! Huw would do 5 years in total with BDO and would make the switch around about 2017 to PDC circuit but would take a little bit of time before getting a regular spot on the tour but would referee in some Premier League matches and other events. It was round about 2021 where Huw would step up to the official 4th referee on the schedule and has not looked back since becoming instantly recognisable and is now one of the elite refs in the sport! Thanks so much to Huw for coming on to chat I really appreciate it! It was a great chat! All the best for this year on your adventures! Download via Podbean, Apple Podcasts & Spotify!

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  Episode #12

  Ep 12 Huw Ware (How to deal with the whistlers)

  Mar 3, 20261h 6mS0

  <p>In the first episode of 2026 I was pleased to be joined by one of the elite darting referees and host of Tops & Tales Podcast 'Houdini' Huw Ware who kindly spent some time on the podcast amongst a very busy schedule on PDC circuit.</p> <p>Huw would play at 2011 WDF World Cup in Aberdeen for Wales and would play against the likes of Jeffrey De Zwaan, Jimmy Hendriks & would even beat recently crowned WDF World Champion Jimmy van Schie in a best of 1 leg match in that event. A very cool achievement.</p> <p>Huw would start refereeing local...

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