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Luke Humphries Accidentally Leaks £1 Million PDC Darts World Championship Prize Money
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Luke Humphries may have accidentally leaked an increase in the prize money for the PDC World Championship, as it is set to rise to £1 million.
Luke Humphries Leaks £1,ooo,ooo PDC World Championship Prize Money
The winner of the PDC World Championship has traditionally won £500,000, as Luke Littler picked up the prize money in the opening stages of 2025.
Michael van Gerwen was the first player to win £500,000 for becoming world champion, after the Dutchman beat Michael Smith in the 2019 tournament.
However, this number could be changing for the 2025/26 World Championship, as former world champion Luke Humphries may have accidentally revealed that the prize money will be £1 million.
The world number one takes his place at the top of the PDC Order of Merit after a huge amount of success in recent years and sits £600,000 ahead of Luke Littler who takes up second place.
Being the number one ranked player in the world is not Humphries’ primary goal however, as Cool Hand revealed that he would rather be world champion and win a ‘million quid’.
Humphries said: “I’m not fighting desperately to be world number one, I’d rather be world champion, which he is, so for him I’m sure he’d be more happy to be world champion than world number one.
“For me it doesn’t matter what happens in the next six, seven, eight months, it’s all about the World Championships, we all know that the world champion is going to get a million quid, so whoever wins that is going to be world number one.
If I win that I’ll be world number one for a long time, if Luke wins that he’s going to be world number one for a long time.”
In fact, Humphries believes that winning tournaments from now until the World Championships is not that important in of rankings – as the next world champion will take the spot regardless.
He said: “You can look at someone like Michael van Gerwen or Gerwyn Price winning it, they’ll be number one, so it really does not matter what happens over the next seven or eight months, it’s who wins the worlds that will carry that number one spot.”