2011 WSOP: LOVE IS IN THE AIR AS LOVE BIRDS SANDS/MOUTINHO IN THE BLINDS!

PHOTO/SOURCE: POKERNEWS.com

An amazing story is developing at the WSOP as we inch closer and closer to the November Nine.

Yesterday, David "Doc" Sands was moved to the ESPN feature table. As he entered the "arena", his girlfriend, Erika Moutinho was already seated at the table and, well, the two were forced to treat each other as adversaries for the time being.

Queue tonight and, well, things got a little more weird. Once again seated at that same ESPN feature table except, this time, they were seated one next to each other, battling blinds once an orbit. In one hand, Moutinho (sitting the Sands' right) raised Doc's big blind and took down the pot.

It could make for some very interesting TV as we get down in play - to add to the drama? Both are pretty low in chips so one may have to make a move on the other.

We are down to 32 players and Matt Giannetti is our chip leader. He picked up most of his chips off Brazilian Hilton Labroda - whom Phil Hellmuth lambasted for what the Poker Brat described as a terrible call.

Our main man Ben Lamb is still going strong - currently sits third in chips, one of four players with at least 13M chips.

Gregory Kaplan, JP Kelly, Lars Bonding, Phil Collins and Bryan Devonshire are all in the Top 10 - sure looks like we are going to be in for one entertaining November Nine!

Current notable chip stacks at the dinner break:
Matt Giannetti 14,360,000
Ben Lamb 13,035,000
Aleksandr Mozhnyakov 13,005,000
Gregory Kaplan 12,470,000
JP Kelly 10,250,000
Lars Bonding 8,445,000
Phil Collins 8,140,000
Bryan Devonshire 7,875,000
Eoghan O'Dea 5,500,000
Steve Brecher 4,925,000
Pius Heinz 4,550,000
Sam Barnhart 4,395,000
Kyle Johnson 3,185,000
John Esposito 1,965,000
David Sands 1,915,000
Erika Moutinho 1,775,000


It's a tough break for tonight's notable eliminations: Erick Lindgren, Tony Hachem, Mario Silvestri, Ruben Visser, David Bach, Feming Chan, Stefan Huber, Per Linde, Zohair Karim and Sebastien Ruthenberg.


PTPR GRAND SLAM EVENT
2011 World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker NLH Main Event
July 17-November, 2011

Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Buy-in: $10,000 | Prizepool: $64,531.000 | Entries: 6,865

PTS AT STAKE:
Bracelet Winner 170
Runner-Up 110
3rd place 95
4th place 85
5th place 80
6th place 75
7th place 70
8th place 65
9th place 55
10th place 45
11th place 40
12-14th place 38
15-17th place 35
18-20th place 32
21-23rd place 28
24-27th place 25