Magnus Caris | |||||||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Nickname | Poker Face | ||||||||||||||
Born |
Sweden |
15 November 1968 ||||||||||||||
Home town |
Nacka, Sweden |
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Darts information | |||||||||||||||
Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Walk-on music | Poker Face by Lady Gaga | ||||||||||||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||||||||
BDO | 1987–2009 | ||||||||||||||
PDC | 2009– | ||||||||||||||
Current world ranking | 66 | ||||||||||||||
BDO majors - best performances | |||||||||||||||
World Ch'ship | Semi-finals: 1994 | ||||||||||||||
World Masters | Semi-finals: 1992 | ||||||||||||||
PDC premier events - best performances | |||||||||||||||
World Ch'ship | Last 64: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017 | ||||||||||||||
Grand Slam | Group stage: 2011 | ||||||||||||||
European Ch'ship | Last 32: 2011, 2012, 2015 | ||||||||||||||
UK Open | Last 96: 2011, 2013 | ||||||||||||||
Other tournament wins | |||||||||||||||
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Magnus Caris (born November 15, 1968) is a Swedish darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events.
Caris made seven BDO World Darts Championship appearances, his first coming in 1988, losing in the first round to Rick Ney of the United States. In 1990, he reached the quarter finals, beating Antero Rantala and Brian Cairns before losing to Eric Bristow.
He is famous for his semi final match in the 1994 BDO World Darts Championship against crowd favourite Bobby George. He defeated Wayne Weening, Leo Laurens and Martin Adams to set up a match with George who was struggling with a very bad back following his quarter final win over Kevin Kenny. Caris lost the first 2 sets against George, but then won the next 4 sets and went 2 legs up in the seventh set. In the third leg of the seventh set, Caris had one dart at double 18 to win the match with a 141 checkout. Following this, George won 9 legs in a row and prevailed 5-4 in sets.
Caris also played in the Winmau World Masters five times, with his best performance coming in 1992, reaching the semi finals with wins over John Lowe, Bristow and Martin Adams before losing to Mike Gregory. Caris returned to televised darts at the 2009 World Masters, losing to defending champion Martin Adams in the last 16.
At the end of 2009, Caris competed in the 2010 PDC World Championship. He whitewashed Spain's Francisco Ruiz in the preliminary round before losing to Colin Lloyd in the first round.