Group E: Last year's semi-finalist, Steve Beaton, kicked his campaign off with a win against Mervyn King. King took a 3-2 lead before Beaton fought back and took the opening match 5-3.
Phil Taylor kicked off his campaign against nineteen year old James Hubbard who was making his television début. It was relatively easy for Taylor despite Hubbard producing some decent darts, the veteran took a 3-0 lead before Hubbard prevented the whitewash. But Taylor went onto win 5-1.
Group F: Paul Nicholson produced the second whitewash of the tournament. Dispatching Welshman Barrie Bates 5-0.
Wes Newton recovered from 2-0 down to get his campaign off to the start he desired. Sweden's Magnus Caris took the ealry lead before Newton showed his class to win 5-2.
Group G: Mark Webster got off to a shaky start against PDC's rank 84, 21 year old Aaron Monk. Webster took a 3-1 lead before being pegged back. It then went to 4-4 before Webster took the deciding leg to win the game 5-4.
John Part secured victory against a nervous Jan Dekker. Dekkker, a 21 year old from Holland and currently a BDO representative soon found himself 3-0 down to the three time World Champion. Dekker managed to fight back to 3-2 but Part kicked on and finished with a 115 checkout to win the match 5-2.
Group H: There was an all Dutch affair as Vincent Van Der Voort took on Co Stompe. Despite taking the first leg, Van Der Voort soon found himself 3-1 and was unable to close the deficit. Stompe went onto win the game 5-3.
Adrian Lewis was fought tooth and nail by BDO's Martin Phllips. Phillips did beat Lewis in this tournament last year and took a 3-2 lead after going behind. The World Champion was a little it and miss throughout and Phillips almost took advantage. It went to a deciding leg, but Lewis had the throw and made it count to secure the 5-4 win.
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