David Peters Owes Dylan Linde Money
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The poker community is accustomed to the occasional debt story. These sort of news are rarely surprising, except when the debtor is a player no one ever expected to be in debt in the first place. However, unexpected reveals do occasionally happen — and in April 2026, well-known and respected high rollers David Peters and Dylan Linde found themselves at the center of one of these stories .
Who is Dylan Linde?
Dylan Linde has been a high stakes poker tournament player for for 20+ years, beginning to play live most after the 2019 COVID pandemic.
As of April 21st, 2026, he has more than $15M in live winnings, three WPT and two EPT titles, four WSOP Circuit rings and three WSOP bracelets, plus a PokerGO Cup.
How Linde Made Peters’ Debt Public
Dylan Linde, who rarely posts and engages in controversies on social media, opened up on X (Twitter) about a difficult and unpleasant incident between him and David Peters that has been going on for a year:
I deeply regret doing business with David Peters. Last summer David purchased a piece of the 50k plo WSOP that I won. I paid him out a large amount, in cash, a couple days later. A few months later I’m at Triton Jeju and David buys a piece of my two main events (nl & plo). He asks if it’s ok if we settle after Triton as his available liquidity at the event is low. Sure no problem. His action ends up being a $50k loss. We agree he will settle at Pokermasters. He doesn’t show up. Next time I speak with him he says he will settle at NAPT. He doesn’t show up. I ask him to settle before Bahamas. He asks for wire info, I never receive funds. I start to get a bit worried.
Why did Peters avoid paying his debt to Linde? According to Linde, he was “trying to free up liquidity”. Peters also promised to keep him updated — but then disappeared until Linde contacted him again.
The situation repeated itself several times until Linde decided to put an end to it by setting a clear deadline of February 2026, after which he would go public:
He then sends $12k and change, saying he will get the rest. The end of February comes and I’m convinced to give him another month. April 1st he sends me 15k and says he cannot pay the remaining balance. Since this began I’ve found out about other bad debts and bad business deals, so I feel obligated to make this public.
On April 22nd, 2026, David Peters responded to Linde’s thread with apologetic tweets, fully acknowledging the issue and expressing regret for how poorly he handled it:
“I deeply regret the choices that I made that led to him not trusting that he was going to get paid back and felt the need to post about it. I’m sure that wasn’t an easy thing to do and I should have never allowed it to get to that point. I got myself into a bad situation where I just kept doubling down and making things worse while having very poor communication and missed timelines. There seemed to be some confusion around the wording from the original post about when I sent the last payment on April 1st. I was telling him that I was working on settling the rest asap and not that I wouldn’t or couldn’t ever pay the rest. Just wanted to clarify that. I was always going to make him whole whether there was a twitter post or not and will have this taken care of soon. I certainly handled the situation very poorly and I understand the frustrations. Right now my focus is on making things right and trying to regain the trust of the community.”
Why David Peters’ Debt Is So Surprising
Peters is one of those high rollers who looks incredible on paper and, most importantly, consistently successful. For 20 years, he wasn’t just a casual player for the community; people saw him as “the archetype of a pro’s pro”.
He has been cashing in live tournaments since 2006 and rarely goes for even a couple of months without a win. Try thinking about any major series — WSOP or WSOPC, USPO, Poker Masters, EPT, Triton — Peters has titles from each of them, often more than one. As of April 21st, 2026, his live winnings total just shy of $50 million.
However, in the first four months of 2026, he only cashed once at the WPT Venetian Las Vegas Spring Championship/DSE I, earning a relatively modest $13,800 for his level.
In the comments under Linde’s thread, people were most shocked not by the debt itself but by Peters’ statement about not being able to repay it.
Part of the reason this is so surprising is because you wouldn’t expect a high roller with Peters’ reputation and those kinds of winnings to refuse and pay back the amount he usually spends on multiple buy-ins.
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