Michael Van Gerwen is ready to become the "king of darts" for the next decade after winning his third PDC World Darts Championship.

The Dutchman has dominated the game in recent years and there is little evidence to suggest he will not reign supreme for several years to come.

He moved ahead of Adrian Lewis, John Part and Gary Anderson in the list of PDC world champions when he beat Michael Smith at Alexandra Palace on Tuesday.

Smith, who could have made a closer game of it had he been able to find his doubles at key moments, claimed he is better than Van Gerwen and intends to dethrone him as number one.

Plenty of pretenders to the throne have come and gone in the last few years, but the Dutchman does not believe there are many that have what it takes to challenge him at the highest level.

"They are not good enough," he added. "You can say whatever you want, but to have the mindset is something totally different.

"There are lots of decent young darts players, but can they be decent at full tournaments, especially the worlds, that's something different."

Van Gerwen won a cool £500,000 in prize money for lifting the trophy – the biggest pot in the tournament's history.

But how much he sees of that will depends on the exchange rate of the pound to the euro and that is why he has described Brexit as "horrible".

"It affects me really hard," he said. "I get paid everything in pounds, so just look how the pound compares to the euro, so that costs me 10 per cent of my prize money straight away.

"That is quite a lot of money.

"I hope I am going to get a visa! Brexit is horrible, I don't like it. It's horrible."