Luke Littler has continued his sensational rise to darting stardom by picking up his biggest payday since the World Championship final at the Belgian Open.
Littler burst onto the scene aged 16 last December, as he made it all the way to the World Championship final on debut, beating the likes of Rob Cross and Raymond van Barneveld before being eventually defeated by Luke Humphries.
The teenager took home a staggering £200,000 in his professional debut, and his achievements saw him earn a place in the Premier League of Darts, where Littler has been competing every Thursday since the end of January.
The Premier League offers a £10,000 prize for the winner every single week, but despite sitting third in the league table he is yet to win a Premier League night in six attempts.
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The now 17-year-old won't exactly be struggling financially as had earned a reported £279,000 in 2024 just from prize money.
The World Championship runner-up has also been making the most of his fame outside of darts, with Littler featuring in an advert for the popular Youtube group 'The Sidemen' as well as appearing on the Jonathan Ross Show.
Littler won his first PDC Title at the Bahrain Masters in January after defeating Michael Van Gerwen in the final, and has since taken victory in one of the Player's Tour events and most recently in the Belgian Open.
The teenager's victory against Rob Cross in Belgium, which included a perfect nine-dart leg, was his biggest payday in the sport since his World Championship final.
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Littler took home a whopping £30,000 for the title, but he may still have his mind on something else following a fiery exchange with his semi-final opponent Ricardo Pietreczko.
After Littler's victory, Pietreczko appeared to confront 'The Nuke' during an intensely tense and awkward handshake on the stage.
Pietreczko would go on to call Littler "arrogant" in a post on his Instagram story later in the evening.
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He wrote: "So I appreciated him a lot, that you can play such a game at such an age, but I hope the arrogance punishes him."
Littler responded on his socials but could not understand why Pietreczko had been rattled so much.
He said: "No idea what I did wrong, no idea what he said, something then don't do it again."
No players had previously expressed any issues with Littler, making Pietreczko's anger largely a mystery to this point.
Topics: Luke Littler, Darts
Tom Jenkins