It featured a field of 64 players and £100,000 in prize money, with £20,000 going to the winner.
Wes Newton won his first European Tour title by defeating Paul Nicholson 6–5 in the final.
[2] [3] The top 32 players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit Archived 2013-11-27 at archive.today on the 5 March 2013 automatically qualified for the event.
[7][8] Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis, Gary Anderson and Raymond van Barneveld opted to not play in the event.
James Wade withdrew the day before the tournament started due to illness, as did Simon Whitlock in order to focus on the Premier League.