'Doc' Sands Puts on a Clinic as Unofficial Final Table is Reached
When Day 2 of Event #51: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better began, there were 134 players remaining from a starting field of 847. With only 90 players getting paid, we never envisioned making the unofficial final table by days’ end. However with the insane rate of players busting throughout the day, the unofficial final table was reached with over a half an hour left in the day. Leading the final table is David ‘Doc’ Sands who started the day in third place with 99,800 but has amassed a whopping 1,130,000 in chips, good for just over a quarter of the total chips in play.
Given all of the eliminations throughout the day, one would think that the hand of the day would certainly be one involving a bustout, especially considering Sands knocked out five of the last eight players that lost. However the key pot for chip leader Sands was a massive marathon of a hand that took around 15 minutes and didn’t even include a showdown. With the board reading 
and already around 400,000 in the pot between the two chip leaders, Sands moved all in for 310,000. With about 375,000 behind, Wice tanked and eventually folded 
for Broadway while Sands mucked his hand and took down the monster pot. Sands would later go on to eliminate Wice in 11th place on the unofficial final table bubble.
Other notable Eliminations that made the money included PokerStars Team Pro Alexandre Gomes (87th), Antony Lellouche (82nd), Mike Beasley (72nd), Dario Alioto (64th), Erik Seidel (58th), Alexander Kostritsyn (53rd), Day 1 chip leader William Speir (51st), Ben Yu (49th), Kathy Liebert (46th), Barry Shulman (19th) and Fabrizio Gonzalez (16th).
The players will come back tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. PST and hopefully play down to a winner that will get $268,235 and the coveted WSOP gold bracelet. If that isn’t accomplished within ten levels of play though, then whoever remains will return for a fourth day. Either way, we hope to see you back here then at PokerNews for our day 3 coverage as well as our updates on every other event going on at the 2011 World Series of Poker.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,130,000
1,036,000
|
1,036,000 |
|
514,000
483,000
|
483,000 |
|
487,000
482,900
|
482,900 |
|
420,000
377,200
|
377,200 |
|
||
|
365,000
290,900
|
290,900 |
|
||
|
|
359,000
350,000
|
350,000 |
|
335,000
311,600
|
311,600 |
|
288,000
260,600
|
260,600 |
|
|
213,000
188,000
|
188,000 |
|
149,000
108,700
|
108,700 |