As would be expected at an event with this kind of prize money, the field included some of the top players who don't usually make it to Joss Tour events. Even though Buddy Hall pulled out of the field on thursday, there was no shortage of great matches for the fans as the brackets included names like Immonen , Strickland , Williams , Hatch , San Souci and McCready as well as regular Joss tour players like Sambajon , Altomare , Saez , Zuglan and McCreesh .

The great matchups got started early on saturday with Charlie Williams and George San Souci drawing each other in the first round where Williams scored a 9-5 victory. Williams would continue from there to go undefeated on saturday.

The big story on saturday was Joss Tour regular Santos Sambajon who posted back-to-back wins over Dennis Hatch and then Mika Immonen to also remain undefeated going into sunday.

Sunday dawned with 8 players unbeaten and 8 players on the one-loss side and all the players in the money. Strickland and Williams as well as Sambajon and fellow Joss Tour regular Chuck Altomare made it to the final four on the winners side while Teddy Garrahan was sending Dennis Hatch to the bleachers on the one loss side.

The next round on the one-loss side saw Garrahan, McCready and Immonen all eliminated while Strickland and Williams defeated Sambajon and Altomare respectively. Jeff White and Rich Difulio immediately handed Sambajon and Altomare their second losses before White eliminated Difulio for a fourth place finish.

The winners side was now down to Strickland and Williams who put on quite a show. Williams pushed out to lead by a couple games all the way to the 8-6 mark when Strickland took his game up another notch to tie the score at 8-8. It was then Williams turn to elevate his game as he won the deciding game and the set 9-8.

Earl quickly dispatched Jeff White 9-5 on the one loss side to earn his rematch where Willliams discovered that beating Strickland once may be tough but beating him twice in one day is even harder.

Earl took control in the first match of the double elimination finals and cruised to a 9-6 win to force the final race to 9 to decide the tournament winner. Again Williams would jump to a quick lead but Earl fought back and the match was deadlocked at 7 each as Williams broke the rack. As half the crowd watched the 1-9 set itself up after the break, the other watched as the cue ball found a pocket. Earl drained the 1-9 combo and prepared to break on the hill. One game later, it was Earl running out the rack to collect the $3200 in prize money for first place.