To say Dylan Linde got off to a good start this summer would be a major understatement. Over the first three weeks of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Linde achieved not one, but two final tables, first in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em event and later in the $1,500 Monster Stack. Linde navigated through thousands of entries in those events, winning nearly $400,000 total but coming up just short of winning a third WSOP bracelet both times.
Linde’s red-hot streak at the 2025 WSOP continued today at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas with a victory in Event #57: $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller. Linde came into the final day as the third-shortest stack but by the end of the night he held every chip in the tournament, defeating Stephen Chidwick heads-up to capture his third bracelet and a career-best score of $2,146,414.
| Place | Player | Country | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dylan Linde | United States | $2,146,414 |
| 2 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | $1,430,938 |
| 3 | Richard Gryko | United Kingdom | $1,000,423 |
| 4 | Biao Ding | China | $713,762 |
| 5 | Manuel Stojanovic | Austria | $519,892 |
| 6 | Ka Kwan Lau | Hong Kong | $386,768 |
| 7 | Quan Zhou | China | $294,013 |
| 8 | Dirk Gerritse | Netherlands | $228,489 |
“I’m kind of stunned,” Linde told PokerNewsfollowing his victory. “It’s been a few really deep runs in a row. I feel very fortunate, and I mean, incredibly lucky to win such a large amount, my third bracelet, and to get heads-up with one of my best friends. I can’t imagine a better day”.
Linde, who won his first bracelet in the $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo Event in 2021, described how today’s victory felt even more meaningful than his first one.
“It’s interesting because I had been trying for a long time to win a bracelet, and I made a lot of final tables and hadn’t. So that one felt special in the sense that, like, yes, I finally did it.
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Click hereThat being said, this one feels more special in that it’s a gigantic event against literally the best players in the world. So I think this one means a bit more to me. There’s also a larger pile of cash at the end too”.
Linde also spoke of the challenge of jumping from lower buy-in events with massive fields to high rollers with smaller fields full of elite players.
“I love the challenge of playing the big field events because you just don’t know who you’re going to be up against, and it’s very fun mental flexibility to jump from that into this, where the players are all challenging you every second. It’s very fun. Exhausting, but very fun.”
The third and final day began with just 11 hopefuls from a field of 194 entries, all of whom were guaranteed at least $147,738. Linde began the day as a bottom-three stack but quickly moved up to the middle of the pack after flopping top set against Ka Kwan Lau and getting paid off after improving to a full house on the river. Youness Barakat and Gergo Nagy failed to find similar momentum and were the first two to fall, making way for the unofficial nine-handed final table.
Chidwick quickly moved up the counts once the final table began, dispatching Frank Crivello in a preflop confrontation that saw Chidwick flop top pair and hold against Crivello, who flopped a wrap. Linde's stack had been steadily dwindling, and by the time Crivello was followed out the door by Dirk Gerritse in eighth place, Linde was the short stack.
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Linde's final table comeback began with a pivotal hand against Quan Zhou. Linde got his remaining stack in the middle with pocket aces against Zhou's pocket jacks on a ten-high flop, and turned a gutshot straight to seal the double-up. That hand saw Zhou go from chip lead to short stack, and Linde would get the rest of his chips soon after. Zhou was soon followed out by Lau, who busted in sixth after running pocket kings into Chidwick's pocket aces and failing to improve.
Chidwick had built a massive chip lead following Lau’s elimination, and he quickly extended it, eliminating Manuel Stojanovic next to hold over half the chips in play with four players remaining. Chidwick seemed poised to steamroll the rest of the final table, but his momentum was halted after Linde flopped a set of eights against Chidwick’s pocket kings for another double-up.
Momentum was now on Linde’s side, and he soon took the chip lead after holding with two pair against Richard Gryko’s straight draw to leave Gryko short. He then extended his lead after making a straight to crack Biao Ding’s bottom set and eliminated Ding in the fourth.
Gryko looked to halt Linde’s momentum after cracking Linde’s aces to nearly close the gap. Gryko’s comeback was short-lived, as he and Linde played the biggest pot of the tournament soon after. Gryko check-shoved the turn with an overpair and a gutshot, but Linde looked him up with second set and held to send Gryko out in third and go into heads up with nearly a 15:1 chip advantage over Chidwick. Two hands later, Linde won a final preflop race against his close friend to win the final pot of the night.
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