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LUKE LITTLER has been tipped to become a professional GAMER.

‘The Nuke’ has already raked in a staggering £2.96million in just two years at the oche and is the best player on the planet. 

The teenage superstar has stormed to 12 major titles and now needs just the European Championship and World Cup to complete the full set. 

But former BDO World Champ Steve Beaton believes Littler could one day swap his flying arrows for a controller. 

He told SunSport: “It’s early days yet in his career, but he’s such a good player. He just sees all these different ways of throwing.

“At the end of the day, you can only hit 9, 12 or 15 darts. Sometimes you can be left with a couple of darts in your hand. But he’s very consistent.

“Okay, he might lose the odd one, but I mean nobody’s perfect.

“It’s going to be interesting to see how long he goes on for. Maybe after four or five years, he will have had enough.

“Maybe he will want to go gaming, you know. He likes doing all that.

“Maybe somebody will approach him to do that or something else.

“I didn’t think darts could get any better. But everywhere I go now, the kids want to play darts. 

“Academies are popping up left, right, centre. I never thought it could get bigger but it definitely has. 

“Luke has made it that big I think. And they’re all just as good as him. 

“They might be just a little bit below par, but they can all hit nine and 12-darters all of the time. 

“It’s just how they deal with the pressure like he’s dealt with it. 

“When they first put him in the Premier League, people said, oh, maybe the Premier League will ruin him. 

“Well, it just made him stronger, and he just proved a point there when they put him in it. 

“Sometimes Luke doesn’t like a few things that the crowd say to him, when they are singing. 

“But he and everybody else have just got to get on with it and try to ignore it. You could always put Gerwyn Price’s earphones on – but those have been banned.” 

Beaton will team up alongside Fallon Sherrock for the third edition of the International Pairs Week on the MODUS Super Series. 

The duo will represent England on April 20-25 in the 24-player tournament featuring twelve nations. 

He added: “Fallon’s played in the MODUS loads of times. I’m looking forward to playing with Fallon and hopefully winning. 

“I met her at the Worlds and that was hard. I remember when it was one set each and I looked up at the averages and she was averaging 100, the same as me. 

“I was thinking: ‘Oh God, I just can’t get rid of her here.’ She’s a very good player. 

“There’s a few good lady players coming through now and the men are going to have to watch out. I’m hoping she puts the fear up a few of them that week.”

Image by Taylor Lanning.