It featured a field of 48 players and £115,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.

Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion, having beaten John Henderson 6–5 in the previous edition.

He retained his title by defeating Peter Wright 6–4 in the final.

[1] The prize money of the European Tour events stays the same as last year.

The top 16 players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today on 15 January automatically qualified for the event and were seeded in the second round.