Sands won seven-figures for the next three years, with a cool $2,880,113 coming in 2013. Several deep runs, including a runner-up finish in a $100,000 High Roller worth $664,027, helped Sands win $1,590,046. He switched focus to live tournaments following “Black Friday,” and he excelled in the live arena.Ģ011 was Sands’ breakout year. Sands is nicknamed “Doc,” and it is the “Doc_Sands” moniker that he used to tear up the online poker world.

Sands lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, these days, but Bozman, Montana is where he grew up. Montana’s five biggest winners have combined live poker tournament winnings of $10,168,111, and David Sands’ tally accounts for $8,459,920 of that sum. David “Doc” Sands Is By Far The Biggest Winner in Montana These are the five biggest poker winners from Montana. Many of the state’s 1,068,778 population love nothing more than playing poker. Montana is the fourth-largest state by area but the eight-least populous thanks to mountainous terrain covering much of the land. Montana does not have an official nickname, but some fantastic poker players call it home.

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