Bill Davis beat Tony Eccles to reach Saturday's main stage competition.
The fifth round action opened with David Fatum being the first player and first American to reach the quarter-finals, beating out fellow countryman Bill Davis.
Phil Taylor continued his imposing form, averaging 107 against Colin Osborne, who did take a set out of 'The Power'.
American Gary Mawson, who had earlier knocked out the number one seed Raymond van Barneveld, lost 3–1 to Blackpool's Ronnie Baxter, and Colin Lloyd also looked to be in menacing form, not dropping a leg against world number eight Roland Scholten.
Total Prize Fund £126,000 (unchanged from 2007)[2][3] Scores after player's names are three-dart averages (total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3) Losers £1,000 Losers £1,500 For the first time the PDC staged a large tournament available only to citizens and Green Card holders from the US and Canada.
On the first night the main shock was the defeat of World Champion and number one seed John Part, who was beaten by Buddy Lessig in the third round.
Leading American and third seed Ray Carver was defeated in the fifth round by Brad Wethington and John Kuczynski was beaten in the quarters by Brian Blake.