Due to the greater prize money available on the PDC tour, a growing number of BDO players have "defected" to the PDC. Four-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld was the highest profile switch, doing so in 2006. John Part (1997), Richie Burnett (2000), Steve Beaton (2001), Jelle Klaasen (2007), Mark Webster (2009), Ted Hankey (2012), Les Wallace (2013), Christian Kist (2014), Stephen Bunting (2014), Glen Durrant (2019) and Scott Waites (2020) are the other past BDO champions who subsequently switched to the PDC.