Seat 2: Dave "Doc" Sands (1,360,000)
Dave “Doc” Sands may not be that well known in the live poker realm just yet, but he’s beginning to make a big name for himself with the results he puts up. Sands holds over $240,000 in live tournament winnings including four cashes at this year’s WSOP. Add those to the other four WSOP cashes he’s had over his career and he’s up to eight.
The largest score on Sands’ record comes from a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event at the Series this past summer. He final tabled the event, finishing in eighth place for over $67,000. Back in 2007, Sands scored his only and largest live win when he took down the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the March Madness Hold’em Tournament held at Turning Stone. He won over $54,000 for his victory there.
Where Sands is mostly known is in the online poker world. Sands plays under the monikers ‘Doc Sands’, ‘SexSeen’ and ‘dsands25’ amongst a few others. Under those three online names, Sands has amasses himself nearly $2.5 million in career winnings. His largest cash came when he won FTOPS Event #10 on Full Tilt Poker in 2009 for $259,440. On average, Sands cashes for nearly $3,500 whenever he hits the money in an online tournament. That’s quite an amazing number if you consider how much lower the buy-ins are online compared to live events.
Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Sands worked in the Internet marketing business. He’s just 25 years old and hails from Bozeman, Montana although he now resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sands is also a member of the famed “Brunson Ten” – a small group of elite poker players hand picked by the godfather of poker himself, Doyle Brunson.