The 2019
Ladbrokes
Ladbrokes Coral is a British gambling company. Its product offering includes sports betting, online casino, online poker, and online bingo. The Ladbrokes portion of the group was established in 1886, and Coral in 1926. In November 2016, th ...
Players Championship Finals was the twelfth edition of the
PDC darts tournament, which sees the top 64 players from the
30 Players Championship events of 2019 taking part. The tournament took place from 22–24 November 2019 at
Butlin's Resort in
Minehead
Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It lies on the south bank of the Bristol Channel, north-west of the county town of Taunton, from the boundary with the county of Devon and close to the Exmoor National Park. T ...
.
Daryl Gurney
Daryl Gurney (born 22 March 1986) is a Northern Irish professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is currently ranked world number twenty-five; he reached a peak ranking of world number thre ...
was the defending champion after defeating
Michael van Gerwen
Michael van Gerwen (; born 25 April 1989) is a Dutch professional darts player, who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where is currently ranked PDC Order of Merit, world number three; he was ranked world number one from 20 ...
11–9 in
the 2018 competition, but he lost 6–5 in the first round to
Luke Woodhouse.
Van Gerwen hit the first televised
nine-dart finish
A nine-dart finish, also known as a nine-darter, is a perfect leg or single game in the sport of darts. The object of the game is to score a set number of points, most commonly 501; in order to win, a player must reach the target total exactly a ...
in over a year in his second round victory over
Adrian Lewis
Adrian Lewis (born 21 January 1985) is an English professional darts player who formerly competed in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Nicknamed "Jackpot", he is a two-time PDC World Champion, having won the title in 2011 and 2012. ...
.
Van Gerwen went on to become Players Champion for the fifth time, beating
Gerwyn Price
Gerwyn Price (born 7 March 1985) is a Welsh professional darts player and former professional rugby union and rugby league player. He competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is currently ranked PDC Order of Merit, world ...
11–9 in the final.
Prize money
The 2019 Players Championship Finals will have a total prize fund of £500,000, an increase from the £460,000 available in 2018.
The following is the breakdown of the fund:
Qualification
The top 64 players from the Players Championships Order of Merit qualify, which is solely based on prize money won in the thirty Players Championships events during the season:
Top 64 in the Players Championship Order of Merit
Draw
There was no draw held, all players were put in a fixed bracket by their seeding positions.
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
References
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