Kid Luke has forgotten what it's like to lose

LUKE LITTLER has become such a winning machine at 16 that he cannot even remember the last time he lost.

- Mike Walters

And when 'Luke the Nuke' puts his amnesia to the test against Brendan Dolan this afternoon, he won't be in any mood to be reminded how it feels.

Happy Nuke Year: The boy wonder, a 150-1 outsider, is now 7-2 second favourite to win the whole thing - behind only Michael van Gerwen.

Happy Nuke Year: Littler's 4-1 win against Raymond van Barneveld to become the quarter-finalist youngest was not just a dazzling statement of a teenager's precocious talent. It was the legalised mugging of a grandfather.

Happy Nuke Year: Northern Ireland underdog Dolan has dumped out two former world champions Gerwyn Price and Gary Anderson on his own fairytale run to the last eight.

But the 'History Maker' from Belcoo in County Fermanagh had better be ready for the avalanche of history coming his way at Alexandra Palace today.