Dylan Linde Takes Down the $50k PLO High Roller for Third Bracelet and Career-Best Score

To say Dylan Linde bought off to an excellent begin this summer time could be a serious understatement. Over the primary three weeks of the 2025 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP), Linde achieved not one, however two remaining tables, first within the $2,500 No-Restrict Maintain’em occasion and later within the $1,500 Monster Stack. Linde navigated by hundreds of entries in these occasions, profitable almost $400,000 complete however developing simply wanting profitable a 3rd WSOP bracelet each instances.

Linde’s red-hot streak on the 2025 WSOP continued immediately on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas with a victory in Occasion #57: $50,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha Excessive Curler. Linde got here into the ultimate day because the third-shortest stack however by the tip of the evening he held each chip within the match, defeating Stephen Chidwick heads-up to seize his third bracelet and a career-best rating of $2,146,414.

Occasion #57: $50,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha Excessive Curler Last Desk Outcomes

Winner’s Response

“I’m type of shocked,” Linde advised PokerNews following his victory. “It’s been a couple of actually deep runs in a row. I really feel very lucky, and I imply, extremely fortunate to win such a big quantity, my third bracelet, and to get heads-up with one in every of my finest pals. I can’t think about a greater day”.

Linde, who gained his first bracelet within the $1,500 Combined Omaha Hello-Lo Occasion in 2021, described how immediately’s victory felt much more significant than his first one.

“It’s attention-grabbing as a result of I had been making an attempt for a very long time to win a bracelet, and I made lots of remaining tables and hadn’t. In order that one felt particular within the sense that, like, sure, I lastly did it.

That being mentioned, this one feels extra particular in that it’s a huge occasion towards actually the very best gamers on this planet. So I feel this one means a bit extra to me. There’s additionally a bigger pile of money on the finish too”.

Linde additionally spoke of the problem of leaping from decrease buy-in occasions with huge fields to excessive rollers with smaller fields stuffed with elite gamers.

“I really like the problem of enjoying the large discipline occasions since you simply don’t know who you’re going to be up towards, and it’s very enjoyable psychological flexibility to leap from that into this, the place the gamers are all difficult you each second. It’s very enjoyable. Exhausting, however very enjoyable.”

Last Day Motion

The third and remaining day started with simply 11 hopefuls from a discipline of 194 entries, all of whom have been assured at the very least $147,738. Linde started the day as a bottom-three stack however rapidly moved as much as the center of the pack after flopping high set towards Ka Kwan Lau and getting paid off after bettering to a full home on the river. Youness Barakat and Gergo Nagy failed to search out comparable momentum and have been the primary two to fall, making method for the unofficial nine-handed remaining desk.

Chidwick rapidly moved up the counts as soon as the ultimate desk started, dispatching Frank Crivello in a preflop confrontation that noticed Chidwick flop high pair and maintain towards Crivello, who flopped a wrap. Linde’s stack had been steadily dwindling, and by the point Crivello was adopted out the door by Dirk Gerritse in eighth place, Linde was the quick stack.

Linde’s remaining desk comeback started with a pivotal hand towards Quan Zhou. Linde bought his remaining stack within the center with pocket aces towards Zhou’s pocket jacks on a ten-high flop, and turned a gutshot straight to seal the double-up. That hand noticed Zhou go from chip result in quick stack, and Linde would get the remainder of his chips quickly after. Zhou was quickly adopted out by Lau, who busted in sixth after working pocket kings into Chidwick’s pocket aces and failing to enhance.

Chidwick had constructed an enormous chip lead following Lau’s elimination, and he rapidly prolonged it, eliminating Manuel Stojanovic subsequent to carry over half the chips in play with 4 gamers remaining. Chidwick appeared poised to steamroll the remainder of the ultimate desk, however his momentum was halted after Linde flopped a set of eights towards Chidwick’s pocket kings for one more double-up.

Momentum was now on Linde’s aspect, and he quickly took the chip lead after holding with two pair towards Richard Gryko’s straight draw to go away Gryko quick. He then prolonged his lead after making a straight to crack Biao Ding’s backside set and eradicated Ding within the fourth.

Gryko appeared to halt Linde’s momentum after cracking Linde’s aces to almost shut the hole. Gryko’s comeback was short-lived, as he and Linde performed the most important pot of the match quickly after. Gryko check-shoved the flip with an overpair and a gutshot, however Linde appeared him up with second set and held to ship Gryko out in third and go into heads up with almost a 15:1 chip benefit over Chidwick. Two arms later, Linde gained a remaining preflop race towards his shut pal to win the ultimate pot of the evening.

That concludes the PokerNews protection for this even,t however make sure you keep tuned for our persevering with protection of the 2025 WSOP.