See the draw Players Championship 29 right here including Michael Smith, Peter Wright & Gary Anderson

Starting at 1 p.m., the 29th Players Championship tournament of the year gets underway in Leicester. The 128-strong field of participants includes plenty of notable names

Michael van Gerwen, Luke Humphries, Gerwyn Price, Ryan Searle and Luke Littler also did not travel to Leicester. World class players such as Michael Smith, Rob Cross, Dave Chisnall, Nathan Aspinall, James Wade, Peter Wright and Gary Anderson do make a bid for the day's victory.

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A total of 125,000 pounds in prize money is distributed at each Players Championship tournament. The winner of the event will receive a check for 15,000 pounds.

See the draw in full down below!

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Draw Players Championship 29

Last 128

Dave Chisnall - | - Ryan Meikle

Mickey Mansell - | - Joshua Richardson

Niels Zonneveld - | - Jurjen van der Velde

Stephen Burton - | - Jeffrey Sparidaans

Michael Smith - | - Jamie Hughes

Adam Gawlas - | - Jules van Dongen

Ritchie Edhouse - | - Adam Warner

Nathan Aspinall - | - Arron Monk

Danny Noppert - | - Andy Boulton

Keane Barry - | - Callan Rydz

Luke Woodhouse - | - Mario Vandenbogaerde

Patrick Geeraets - | - Nathan Rafferty

Gary Anderson - | - Matthew Dennant

Richie Burnett - | - Richard Veenstra

Dirk van Duijvenbode - | - Steve Beaton

Martijn Dragt - | - Ian White

Martin Schindler - | - Brett Claydon

Stefan Bellmont - | - Graham Hall

Joe Cullen - | - Daniel Klose

Krzysztof Ratajski - | - Ricky Evans

Rob Cross - | - Rowby-John Rodriguez

Danny Jansen - | - Maik Kuivenhoven

Cameron Menzies - | - Jose De Sousa

Jacques Labre - | - Darius Labanauskas

Josh Rock - | - Karel Sedlacek

Kim Huybrechts - | - Adam Hunt

Brendan Dolan - | - William O'Connor

Matt Campbell - | - Madars Razma

Daryl Gurney - | - Justin Hood

George Killington - | - Jitse Van der Wal

James Wade - | - Scott Williams

Thibault Tricole - | - Alexander Merkx

Stephen Bunting - | - Danny Lauby

Darryl Pilgrim - | - Dylan Slevin

Alan Soutar - | - Vincent van der Voort

Connor Scutt - | - Rhys Griffin

Peter Wright - | - Jim Williams

William Borland - | - Dom Taylor

Mike De Decker - | - Andy Baetens

Berry van Peer - | - Martin Lukeman

Damon Heta - | - Jamie Atkins

Owen Bates - | - Robert Owen

Andrew Gilding - | - Wesley Plaisier

Jelle Klaasen - | - Jeffrey De Graaf

Gian van Veen - | - Keegan Brown

Owen Roelofs - | - Benjamin Reus

Ricardo Pietreczko - | - Simon Whitlock

Radek Szaganski - | - Mervyn King

Chris Dobey - | - Callum Goffin

Robert Grundy - | - Darren Beveridge

Gabriel Clemens - | - Graham Usher

John Henderson - | - Josh Payne

Raymond van Barneveld - | - Lee Evans

Mensur Suljovic - | - Lukas Wenig

Wessel Nijman - | - Jeffrey De Zwaan

James Hurrell - | - Christian Kist

Ross Smith - | - Danny van Trijp

Kevin Doets - | - Jimmy van Schie

Ryan Joyce - | - Dragutin Horvat

Robbie Knops - | - Boris Krcmar

Jonny Clayton - | - Steve Lennon

Nick Kenny - | - Chris Landman

Jermaine Wattimena - | - Lee Cocks

Michele Turetta - | - Florian Hempel