Day 6 Main Event Report
There are now 57 players remaining in the Main Event of the 2011 World Series of Poker. Day 6 began with 142 players, and when the chips were bagged and tagged at the end of the day there were 57 still standing. Below you will find the top chip counts after Day 6, notable players still remaining, and notable players that hit the rail during WSOP Day6.
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Top Main Event Day 6 Chip Counts
Ryan Lenaghan 12,865,000
Ben Lamb 9,980,000
Matt Giannetti 7,940,000
Andrey Pateychuk 7,255,000
Phil Collins 7,240,000
Hilton Laborda 7,160,000
Nelson Robinson 6,420,000
Tri Huynh 6,295,000 295,000
Aleksandr Mozhnyakov 6,070,000
Bryan Devonshire 5,970,000
Notable Players Advancing from World Series Day 6
JP Kelly (Team PokerStars Pro)
Tom “tommyboy” Koral
Lars Bonding
David “Doc” Sands
Erika Moutinho (girlfriend of Doc Sands)
Andrew Brokos (Team PokerStars Pro)
Tony Hachem (brother of Main Event champ Joe Hachem)
Erick “Edog” Lindgren
David Bach
Steve Brecher
Frank Sinopli
Minh Nguyen
Notable Players Eliminated During Day 6
Jean-Robert Bellande
Allen Cunningham
Peter Feldman
Joseph Cheong (final table last year)
Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro
Eli Elezra
Aaron Jones
Sorel Mizzi
Christian Harder
Darryl Jace (2nd in chips after Day 3)
Claudia Crawford
Amanda Musumeci
To begin the day there were three women remaining in the field. As you can see by the above notable eliminations both Claudia Crawford and Amanda Musumeci were eliminated during Day 6. That means that there is one woman moving on to Day 7 of the 2011 World Series of Poker. She is the better half of our top story from Day 6.
Top Story WSOP Day 6 – Girlfriend and Boyfriend Advance in Main Event
Doc Sands and Erika Moutinho have both advanced into Day 7 of the 2011 World Series of Poker. This is the longest that I can remember any boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife pair lasting in the Main Event. For a short time they were both seated at the ESPN featured table together. I imagine that is a pretty special experience getting to play with your significant other on live television.
Erika Moutinho began the day with 878,000 in chips. By the end of the day she had chipped up to over two million. To see Erika check out the Wicked Chops Erika Moutinho gallery. Coming into the Main Event Erika only had one live poker tournament cash. She finished 416th in a smaller no limit holdem even at this year’s World Series of poker. The cash in that tournament was for $1812, and she is already guaranteed at least $130,997 in the Main Event.
Erika was taught how to play poker by her longtime boyfriend Doc Sands. Doc will start play in Day 7 with a little over 2.7 million in chips. David “Doc” Sands has a much more extensive poker tournament resume, with over a million dollars in cashes. The Main Event will be the 5th cash for Doc Sands in the 2011 World Series of Poker. His best finish in this year’s WSOP was third place in a pot limit Omaha event for $113,000.
It was already a successful WSOP for Sands, but this experience is undoubtedly a once in a lifetime event. It would make for some really great theater if both Sands and Moutinho could advance to the final table. I think that a lot of people will be rooting for them. I know that I will be.