Luke Humphries blown away by ‘silly money’ he was earning after becoming World Darts Champion

LUKE HUMPHRIES admits helium was blown distant to gain “silly money” aft becoming World Champion.

The darts World No.1 volition instrumentality to the large signifier aboriginal this week successful the Dutch Darts Masters successful Den Bosch.

But Cool Hand, 29, has opened up connected his net connected the Jaackmate Happy Hour podcast.

He whitethorn person surrendered his satellite crown to Luke Littler but helium has raked successful £1.8million successful prize wealth successful 2 years and is comfortably apical of the currency league successful the sport.

On winning 1 of his archetypal large cheques 8 years ago, Humphries revealed: “Really nice! You look astatine it and think, ‘Jesus!’ You’ve got £50,000 that’s conscionable been enactment in.

“Obviously you person to wage absorption and tax… but you benignant of get 65 per cent of it successful the end, possibly 70 per cent if you’re lucky. And it was amazing.

“You think, ‘This is amazing, £50,000, I privation to support doing this!’”

Humphries has won the World Grand Prix, Grand Slam, Players Championship twice, World Cup and World Matchplay wrong the past 16 months.

While Littler has rightfully grabbed the headlines, Humphries is the astir prolific large rubric victor successful the athletics by immoderate margin.

He added: “You get sponsors coming successful then. They’re paying you - successful those days - £5,000 oregon £10,000 for each sponsor, and you benignant of get £30,000 oregon £40,000 connected your garment earlier you've adjacent thrown a dart!

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“And this was similar 7 years ago. That’s already your wage without winning anything. So that’s comfortability, whereas present it's ridiculous, silly money.

“When you spot that fractional a cardinal from the Worlds, you go, ‘Woah.’”

Humphries mislaid his accidental to clasp his satellite rubric aft Peter Wright KO’d him astatine the Ally Pally past month.

He returned to enactment successful the Bahrain Masters a week agone but mislaid to eventual victor Stephen Bunting successful the semi-finals.