Luke Littler guaranteed £60,000 jackpot for every nine-darter at World Darts Championship thanks to generous sponsor

LUKE LITTLER volition container himself £60,000 for each nine-dart decorativeness helium puts up astatine the World Championship.

The highly-anticipated Ally Pally tourney is set to get underway connected December 15.

The victor of darts' astir prestigious contention volition slope £500,000 successful prize money, portion 2nd spot volition gain a chill £200,000.

But you don't person to get acold to commencement earning the large bucks aft the PDC confirmed that sponsor Paddy Power volition beryllium paying £60,000 to each subordinate that pulls of a nine-darter.

The Irish bookmakers are besides committing to giving 1 fortunate instrumentality astatine Ally Pally £60k and donating a further £60k to Prostate Cancer UK for each cleanable leg.

The generous gesture, which totals £180,000 for each nine-darter, has been labelled arsenic The BIGGER 180 by Paddy Power.

However, not each subordinate successful the tract is eligible for the prize wealth with Luke Littler the lone prima successful the 96-strong tract of players who can't triumph the cash.

That's due to the fact that Littler, 17, is the lone rival nether the property of 18, making him ineligible for prize wealth from a betting company.

But different generous sponsor has swooped successful to prevention the time and guarantee that the sport's astir celebrated subordinate astatine the infinitesimal isn't near out.

Village Hotels person pledged to enactment up the £60,000 prize for Littler if helium is to deed a nine-darter during the fast-approaching tournament.

A spokesperson from Village Hotels said: "What Paddy Power and the PDC person done successful supporting Prostate Cancer UK done The BIGGER 180 run has been remarkable, and the nine-darter bonus promises to marque this year’s adjacent bigger.

“But fixed what Luke has done successful the athletics already, and our adjacent enslaved developed with the PDC since joining arsenic a partner, we couldn’t spot 1 of the biggest names miss retired – truthful we wanted to bash our bit.

“But if helps animate Luke to hitting the magic number, and if it means much wealth goes to redeeming lives arsenic portion of the wider campaign, past it’ll beryllium a tiny terms to pay.”

As uncommon arsenic a nine-dart decorativeness is, Village Hotels surely could person to wage up with Littler already earning himself 2 cleanable legs this year.

The Nuke deed nine-dart finishes successful some the Bahrain Darts Masters and the Premier League darts this year.

While 55 players person deed a nine-darter successful PDC contention this twelvemonth alone.

However, the unit of the World Championship could ever mean that we spell without seeing the sensational decorativeness altogether.

Paddy Power person made definite that determination volition inactive beryllium immoderate charitable donations careless of a nine-darter too.

The bookies person committed to donating £1,000 to Prostate Cancer UK for each 180 deed astatine Ally Pally arsenic well.