Robert Hughes (darts player) Robert Hughes (darts player) Robert Hughes (born 12 December 1966) is a Welsh darts player. He uses the nickname "Elvis", after his favourite singer, Elvis Presley. Hughes reached the quarter finals of the 1997 Welsh Open and the 2000 British Open and then reached the semi finals of the 2004 Welsh Open, where he beat Lee Palfreyman, Steve Smith and John Walton before losing to Tony West. Hughes then won the 2005 Wales National Championship, beating Mark Webster in the final. Hughes reached the final of the 2006 BDO Gold Cup, losing to Gary Anderson. He then reached the quarter
Split in darts two years later. Three time BDO women's champion Anastasia Dobromyslova moved to the PDC in 2008 and moved back in 2011. Simon Whitlock moved to the BDO from the PDC, before subsequently switching back again. There is no definitive World Champion in the game, and players from the rival organisations rarely face each other, except in the Grand Slam of Darts, to which the top BDO players are invited. 16 times world champion (2 BDO, 14 PDC) Phil Taylor has twice defeated the reigning BDO champion in an official challenge match: Raymond van Barneveld in 1999 and Andy Fordham in