LUKE'S IN THE XBOX SEAT NOW

Nuke has his game head on as he chases glory

- CRAIG SWAN

LUKE LITTLER feels he can ascend from new gaming chair to the Palace throne.

The Nuke is four games from glory and faces Ryan Joyce for a last-eight place.

While kids across the country got dartboards adorning the 17-yearold's face, the boy who is obsessed by XBox got his own special gifts.

He said: "A new gaming chair, a headset, an Xbox gift card from my mum - even though I'm sponsored by them!" Littler's ultimate gift is the Sid Waddell Trophy and he'll show an aggressive side to get his hands on it. He said: "I'm not a nice person at times on the board. I don't think anyone else is. But it's always good to have that bit of aggression.

"It's good for me to show I can be ruthless. Obviously people are starting to see I'm winning a bit ugly. No matter what I do I always want to win." Littler also has a fun side as he showed a couple of times as he interacted with the Ally Pally crowd.

He waved his arms and joined in as the punters sang for his opponent lan White at one stage before immediately smacking a 180 to silence 1000 K the tune.

He said: "I try to gee myself up.