Dylan Linde Wins $50K WSOP PLO High Roller for $2,146,414 and Third Bracelet

Dylan Linde’s summer at the 2025 World Series of Poker continued in commanding fashion as he took down Event #57: the $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, earning his third WSOP gold bracelet and the biggest payday of his career—$2,146,414. The win was a peak in what had already been a successful WSOP run for Linde, who had made two earlier final tables this series, first in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em event and later in the $1,500 Monster Stack. Combined, those two finishes brought in nearly $400,000 in prize money, though neither ended with a bracelet.

Linde began the final day of the $50,000 PLO High Roller as the third-shortest stack among the 11 remaining players. The tournament had drawn 194 entries, and all players who reached Day 3 were guaranteed at least $147,738. Linde improved his position early after flopping top set against Ka Kwan Lau and improving to a full house on the river. He received a payout from Lau in that hand, pushing him closer to the middle of the chip standings.

The tournament moved to its unofficial final table after the eliminations of Youness Barakat and Gergo Nagy. At the final table, Stephen Chidwick quickly ascended in the chip counts by eliminating Frank Crivello in a preflop confrontation where Chidwick flopped top pair and Crivello had flopped a wrap. At this point, Linde was again the short stack.

Linde’s comeback started with a critical hand against Quan Zhou. On a ten-high flop, Linde got his stack in with pocket aces against Zhou’s pocket jacks. He turned a gutshot straight to win the pot and double up. Zhou, who had been chip leader, dropped to a short stack and was eliminated soon after, again by Linde. Ka Kwan Lau was eliminated in sixth place after his pocket kings were cracked by Chidwick’s pocket aces.

Chidwick continued to build his stack and eliminated Manuel Stojanovic in fifth place. At that moment, Chidwick held over half of the chips in play with four players remaining. However, his momentum was stopped when Linde doubled up through him by flopping a set of eights against Chidwick’s pocket kings.

Linde then overtook the chip lead when he held with two pair against Richard Gryko’s straight draw, leaving Gryko short. Shortly after, Linde eliminated Biao Ding in fourth place. Linde had made a straight to beat Ding’s bottom set. Gryko briefly cut into Linde’s lead after cracking Linde’s aces, but in their next major encounter, Gryko check-shoved the turn with an overpair and a gutshot. Linde called with the second set and held, eliminating Gryko in third place for $1,000,423.

Entering heads-up play, Linde held a nearly 15:1 chip lead over Stephen Chidwick. Just two hands later, the tournament was over. Linde won the final preflop race, defeating Chidwick and securing the title, bracelet, and $2,146,414. Chidwick received $1,430,938 for second place.

The final table of the event paid out as follows: Dylan Linde of the United States took first place and $2,146,414. Stephen Chidwick of the United Kingdom finished second for $1,430,938. Richard Gryko, also from the United Kingdom, placed third and earned $1,000,423. Biao Ding of China was fourth for $713,762. Manuel Stojanovic from Austria claimed fifth and $519,892. Ka Kwan Lau from Hong Kong finished sixth for $386,768. Quan Zhou of China ended in seventh place with $294,013. Dirk Gerritse of the Netherlands rounded out the final table in eighth place for $228,489.

This win was Linde’s third WSOP bracelet. His first came in 2021 in the $1,500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo event. Earlier this year, Linde won his second bracelet in the WSOP Online domestic bracelet series on WSOP.com’s three-state network covering Michigan, Nevada, and New Jersey. That victory came in Event #6: $500 No-Limit Hold’em Ultra Deepstack. The tournament drew 717 total entries—400 unique players and 317 re-entries—creating a $322,650 prize pool. Linde, playing under the name ‘5bestrappers’, defeated David ‘ChegoSaudade’ Funkhouser heads-up to win $60,335.74. Funkhouser earned $43,557.75 for second place. Brett ‘Gotcha1121’ Blackwood placed third and received $32,265.

Linde’s win in the $50K PLO High Roller also made an impact beyond just the live tables. According to PokerScout, the victory was worth 126 points in the 25K fantasy poker standings, helping Team BTG move into the lead. Linde is also a past winner of the 2018 World Poker Tour Five Diamond Classic, where he earned $1.63 million, which until this PLO event had stood as the largest cash of his career.

On WSOP.com, Linde is listed with three WSOP gold bracelets, three WSOP Circuit rings, 18 WSOP final table appearances, and 170 total WSOP cashes, accumulating $4.77 million in WSOP-related earnings. He has won major titles both in live play and on online poker sites and remains active on the online circuit. Earlier in 2025, he also placed fifth in the Triton Poker Series Jeju $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em event, winning $676,000. His total live earnings now exceed $13.4 million. As of this event, he is ranked 64th on the U.S. all-time money list and 140th in the global all-time money rankings. He was born in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.