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2023 Grand Slam of Darts

The 2023 Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts was the seventeenth staging of the Grand Slam of Darts, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place at the Aldersley Leisure Village, Aldersley, Wolverhampton, 11–19 November 2023.[1]

Michael Smith was the defending champion, after defeating Nathan Aspinall 16–5 in the 2022 final,[2] however, he was eliminated during the group stage.

Luke Humphries won his second major and first Grand Slam title by defeating Rob Cross 16–8 in the final. Humphries won every match he played in the tournament, hitting 6 100+ averages in the process.[3]

Ryan Searle hit a nine-dart finish during his group-stage win over Nathan Rafferty.[4]

Prize money

The quarter finals of the Grand Slam of Darts 2022 at Aldersley Leisure Village, Wolverhampton

The prize fund for the Grand Slam remained the same as the year before at £650,000.

Qualification

As of 29 October 2023, the qualifiers were:

PDC Qualifying Tournaments

European Tour

If the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than the required number of players (16), the field will be filled from the reserve lists. The first list consisted of the winners from 2023 European Tour events, in which the winners were ordered firstly by number of wins, then Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

Players Championship

If there are still not enough qualifiers after European Tour events are added, the winners of 2023 Players Championship events will be added, firstly in order by number of wins, then in Order of Merit order.

PDC Qualifying Event

A further eight places in the Grand Slam of Darts will be filled by qualifiers from a PDC Tour Card Holder qualifier to be held on 3 November in Barnsley.

These are the qualifiers:

Additional Qualifiers

The winners of these tournaments and tours also qualified for the tournament.

Pools

Group stage

All group matches were best of nine legs
After three games, the top two in each group qualified for the knock-out stage
If two or more players were tied on points, the positions were determined first by leg difference, and then the result between the two players.

NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs for; LA = Legs against; +/− = Plus/minus record, in relation to legs; Pts = Points; Status = Qualified to knockout stage

Knockout stage

Top averages

The table lists all players who achieved an average of at least 100 in a match.[9][10] In the case one player has multiple records, this is indicated by the number in brackets.

References

  1. ^ Phillips, Josh (30 September 2022). "2023 PDC calendar unveiled". PDC. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  2. ^ Gorton, Josh (20 November 2022). "Super Smith seals first TV ranking title with Cazoo Grand Slam glory". PDC. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  3. ^ Allen, Dave (19 November 2023). "Unstoppable Humphries races to Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts title". PDC. Archived from the original on 20 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  4. ^ Gorton, Josh (13 November 2023). "Searle Lands Sensational Nine-Darter Smith Crashes Out". PDC. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  5. ^ Gorton, Josh (15 November 2023). "Awesome Anderson puts out Price to set up Humphries clash". PDC. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  6. ^ Gorton, Josh (16 November 2023). "Heta dumps out Van Gerwen to set up Cross clash". PDC. Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  7. ^ Phillips, Josh (17 November 2023). "Wade and Humphries to meet in semis after winning quarter-final epics". PDC. Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  8. ^ Gorton, Josh (18 November 2023). "Cross and Bunting complete semi final line up in Wolverhampton". PDC. Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  9. ^ "Groupstage of Grand Slam of Darts 2023 - Mastercaller". Mastercaller. Archived from the original on 16 December 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  10. ^ "Results of Grand Slam of Darts 2023 - Mastercaller". Mastercaller. Archived from the original on 16 December 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.

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