Lovebirds David Sands, Erika Moutinho Drive Deep in WSOP Main Event
On Monday night’s ESPN2 coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, 11-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth gave a shout out to PocketFives.com member David Doc SandsSands (pictured), saying that he was a former #1 ranked player on our site. The spike in traffic courtesy of “The Poker Brat” actually temporarily crashed our site. This author, busy writing player profiles, received a database error when he tried to access PocketFives.com around 9:45pm ET. View the PocketFives Online Poker Rankings.
For Sands and girlfriend Erika Moutinho, the 2011 WSOP Main Event marked the run of a lifetime. The two were seated side by side on Day 7 on Monday. In fact, when Moutinho took her seat next to Sands midway through the day, the two exchanged a smooch; there’s nothing like love when $8.7 million is on the line. The two held the 30th and 31st largest stacks out of the 32 remaining players when the Day 7 dinner break, which lasts for two hours, began around 10:00pm ET.
Hellmuth’s shout out to Sands on ESPN2 caused a buzz in a thread in the Live Poker forum, where one poster joked, “Who would have known Phil Hellmuth knows what PocketFives is?”
On our PocketFives Facebook page, site founder Cal Spears announced, “Hellmuth just mentioned that Doc Sands was the former #1 online poker tournament player on PocketFives on the ESPN2 live coverage. We actually crashed for a minute from the traffic surge – people are watching this coverage!” One reader responded, “The only positive after our ears bleeding for the entire time he has been commentating?”
Sands last assumed the #1 ranking on PocketFives.com in February 2010 and his largest tracked cash came in May 2009, when he earned a Full Tilt Online Poker Series jersey along with $259,000. Sands has wins in the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee, Sunday Mulligan, $1K Monday, the PokerStarsSunday 500, and the Cake Poker $250,000 Guarantee, among other tournaments.
Sands and Moutinho (pictured), who have been together for five years, have been the talk of the town at the Rio in Las Vegas. In a recent confrontation, labeled “domestic violence” by WSOP reporters, Moutinho open-shoved all-in when Sands was in the big blind. Her boyfriend of five years insta-folded and Moutinho showed an ace for good measure. Oh young love!
Moutinho is the Last Woman Standing in the 2011 WSOP Main Event.
You can catch Main Event coverage on ESPN2 from Midnight to 2:30am ET tonight. Be sure to view our 2011 WSOP coverageof online poker players, powered by 24hPoker.
