Event #57: $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller
Day 3 Completed
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #57: $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller
Day: 3
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$9,215,000
Entries
194
Level
29
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
600,000
Entries
11
Players Left
1
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Level 29
: Blinds 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante
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.
Event #57: $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller Final Table Results
| 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 |
Winner's Reaction
“I’m kind of stunned,” Linde told PokerNews following 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.
That 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.”
Final Day Action
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.
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.
That concludes the PokerNews coverage for this even,t but be sure to stay tuned for our continuing coverage of the 2025 WSOP.
Level 29
: Blinds 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante
Dylan Linde received a walk on the first hand of heads-up play.
On the second, Linde raised to 1,800,000 on the button, Stephen Chidwick moved all in for 2,900,000, and Linde called.
Stephen Chidwick: 9♦8♠8♦5♣ 
Dylan Linde: A♦K♥10♠2♠
Chidwick needed his eights to hold to prolong the tournament, but Linde hit two pair on the A♠Q♣2♥ flop to take the lead with two pair.
The 4♠ turn left Chidwick looking for just two outs on the river, but he missed the 2♦ and had to settle for second place while Linde secured the title and his third WSOP bracelet.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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58,200,000
3,800,000
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3,800,000 |
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Busted | |
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Level 29
: Blinds 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante
All three players went to a flop of 8♥6♠2♦ in a limped pot where action checked to Dylan Linde on the button. He bet 700,000 and Stephen Chidwick called in the small blind.
Richard Gryko then raised to 3,500,000 and only Linde called. The turn was the 3♦ and Gryko slowed down and checked to Linde, who bet 6,000,000. Gryko took a minute before moving all in for 17,700,000.
Linde let out a deep breath and waited for the dealer to confirm the amount before calling, creating the biggest pot of the tournament so far. Gryko showed J♥J♦6♣5♠, but Linde was far ahead with 6♥6♦4♠4♦ for a set.
The 3♠ river improved Linde to a full house and he took the massive pot to send Gryko to the rail in third place.
Linde and Chidwick are taking a short break while the table is prepared for the start of heads-up play.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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54,400,000
23,700,000
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23,700,000 |
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3,800,000
1,300,000
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1,300,000 |
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Busted | |
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Level 29
: Blinds 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante
Richard Gryko raised to 1,500,000 on the button with A♠10♣7♠6♦ and Stephen Chidwick called in the big blind.
The flop came 5♦3♠2♦ and Gryko continued for 1,200,000. Chidwick quickly tossed away Q♠J♥10♥6♥.
Dylan Linde then limped in with J♠9♠2♠2♥ from the small blind and Chidwick checked back Q♠10♦7♠7♣.
Both players checked to the river on a board of J♦9♦6♠10♠9♣. Linde then led out for 600,000 and Chidwick called as Linde took the pot with a full house.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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30,700,000
3,900,000
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3,900,000 |
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22,400,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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5,100,000
7,200,000
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7,200,000 |
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Level 29
: Blinds 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante
Dylan Linde raised to 2,100,000 on the button and Richard Gryko three-bet to 6,600,000 in the big blind. Linde then moved all in and Gryko called for 10,600,000.
Richard Gryko: Q♠J♥J♦9♦
Dylan Linde: A♥A♦10♣6♣
Gryko found himself needing help as Linde showed down a pair of aces. The 10♠8♥2♦ flop gave him straight draws, but the 8♠ turn left him a card from elimination.
Gryko spiked the Q♦ on the river to make his straight as he doubled up, nearly catching Linde atop the leaderboard.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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26,800,000
17,200,000
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17,200,000 |
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22,100,000
12,400,000
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12,400,000 |
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Level 29
: Blinds 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante
Stephen Chidwick opened to 2,100,000 from the button with. Dylan Linde three-bet shoved with a covering stack from the big blind and Linde, who started the hand with 5,700,000, called and was at risk.
Stephen Chidwick: A♥K♠9♠5♦
Dylan Linde: A♣Q♦10♥2♠
The board ran out 9♥Q♥K♥7♦6♥. Chidwick was good a t showdown with two pair, kings and nines to double up through the chip leader.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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44,000,000
3,000,000
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3,000,000 |
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12,300,000
6,300,000
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6,300,000 |
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Level 29
: Blinds 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante
Richard Gryko raised to 2,100,000 on the button with A♦K♥8♠3♣ and Stephen Chidwick called in the big blind.
The flop came A♠10♦6♣ and Gryko moved all in for 4,600,000. Chidwick quickly folded Q♠Q♥9♦8♣.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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9,700,000
1,500,000
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1,500,000 |
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6,000,000
3,000,000
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3,000,000 |
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Level 29
: Blinds 300,000/600,000, 600,000 ante
Biao Ding opened to 2,100,000 from the button. Dylan Linde three-bet to 7,400,000 from the small blind and Ding, who had 2,500,000 behind, called and was at risk.
Biao Ding: A♣6♦6♣4♦
Dylan Linde: A♦Q♣9♦7♥
Ding made bottom set on the 10♥6♥Q♥ flop and remained ahead on the 9♣ turn. The 8♥ river improved Linde to a straight and Ding was sent to the rail while Linde extended his lead over the rest of the field.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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41,000,000
6,650,000
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6,650,000 |
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9,000,000
1,200,000
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1,200,000 |
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8,200,000
600,000
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600,000 |
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Busted | |
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Level: 29
Blinds: 300,000/600,000
Ante: 600,000
