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Mark Vos
Mark Vos at the 2008 World Series of PokerNickname(s) pokerbok Hometown Cape Town, South Africa World Series of Poker Bracelet(s) 1 Money finish(es) 9 Highest ITM
Main Event finish80th, 2008 European Poker Tour Title(s) None Final table(s) None Money finish(es) 1 Information accurate as of 2009-09-20. Mark Vos (born 20 October 1983), also known as 'pokerbok', is a professional poker player from Australia. Vos was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and attended Waldorf High School in Constantia. He excelled at mathematics olympiads while in high school, and represented his province in the interprovincial olympiad. Vos permanently deferred his actuarial studies at Macquarie University, to play poker full time. Starting out online with limit hold'em in mid 2004, Vos soon turned his attention to no-limit games, and in short time, earned a reputation as being one of the world's top online poker players, such that he can often be found playing in the most expensive cash games and tournaments online. When not travelling the world playing poker, Vos plans to divide his time between Australia and South Africa.[1] In January 2006, Vos finished 8th in the main event of the Crown Australian Poker Championship, winning A$83,600. As of May 2006, Vos represents the Full Tilt Poker online poker cardroom as a friend of Full Tilt Poker. His name is reflected in red on Full Tilt tables.
In July 2006, Vos won Event 6 at the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the $2000 no limit hold 'em event. Outlasting a field of 1919 players, Vos entered heads up action with Nam Le an almost 3:1 chip underdog. On the final hand, Vos raised to $90,000 preflop and Le made the call. The flop came Q♠ 8♠ 3♥ and Le check-called a $150,000 bet by Vos. The turn was the 2♦ and Le check-called for $250,000. The river brought the Q♦ to which Le checked and Vos moved all in. Le, suspecting a bluff, made the call with 6♣ 6♦, but Vos turned over Q♣ 10♣ for trips and the win, collecting $803,274 and the gold bracelet, becoming one of the youngest WSOP bracelet winners in history. After his victory, Vos said, "[Winning] does not really change things. I mean, it helps. But I still plan to play poker, then [in five years] I'll relax, settle down and decide what I want to do with the rest of my life." [2] Vos cashed four times at the 2008 World Series of Poker including finishing in 80th place out of 6,844 entries in the $10,000 buy-in Main Event, earning $77,200.
As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,200,000. His 9 cashes at the WSOP account for $977,728 of those winnings.[3]
Notes
- ^ FullTilt.net Player profile
- ^ PokerPages.com Tournament Report
- ^ World Series of Poker Earnings, worldseriesofpoker.com
External links
- 'Ask Mark Vos' forum at PokerCrack
- PokerPages Profile
- PokerNetwork Player Page
- Speed Poker Player Profile
- Aussie Mark Vos Outlasts The Field
- FullTiltPoker WSOP Blog Interview
- Wise Hand Poker - Act Your Age
- PokerListings.com interview
- Ace High Wine - The Notorious BOK
- Hendon Mob tournament results
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2001 Burt Boutin · Allen Cunningham · Paul Darden · Nani Dollison (2) · Chris Ferguson · Jay Heimowitz · Phil Hellmuth · Berry Johnston · Travis Jonas · Galen Kester · Rich Korbin · Howard Lederer · Jim Lester · Carlos Mortensen · Scotty Nguyen (2) · David Pham · Adam Roberts · Eddy Scharf · Barry Shulman · Erik Seidel · Hemish Shah · Bob Slezak · Cliff Yamagawa · Steve Zolotow
2002 Billy Baxter · Fred Berger · Catherine Brown · John Cernuto · Johnny Chan · Joel Chaseman · Paul Clark · Allen Cunningham · Jack Duncan · Eddie Fishman · Layne Flack (2) · Perry Friedman · Thor Hansen · Randal Heeb · Jennifer Harman · Dan Heimiller · John Hennigan · John Hom · Phil Ivey (3) · John Juanda · Meng La · Mike Majerus · Mike Matusow · John McIntosh · Qushqar Morad · Jay Sipelstein · Jan Vang Sørensen · Bill Swan · Dan Torla · Robert Varkonyi · David Warga · Robert Williamson III
2003 Mickey Appleman · John Arrage · Doyle Brunson · Johnny Chan (2) · Chris Ferguson (2) · Layne Flack (2) · Prahlad Friedman · Phil Hellmuth (2) · Mohammed Ibrahim · Tom Jacobs · John Juanda (2) · Charles Keith Lehr · Toto Leonidas · O'Neil Longson · David Lukaszewski · Jim Meehan · Chris Moneymaker · Carlos Mortensen · Daniel Negreanu · Men Nguyen (2) · Minh Nguyen · Phi Nguyen · Frankie O'Dell · Ron Rose · Barb Rugolo · Michael Saltzburg · Eddy Scharf · Huck Seed · Erik Seidel · Amir Vahedi
2004 Joe Awada · Eli Balas · Curtis Bibb · Farzad Bonyadi · T. J. Cloutier · Hung Doan · Gerry Drehobl · Annie Duke · Antonio Esfandiari · Scott Fischman (2) · Ted Forrest (2) · Chau Giang · Gary Gibbs · Barry Greenstein · Gavin Griffin · Hasan Habib · John Hennigan · Brett Jungblut · Ted Lawson · Kathy Liebert · Aaron Katz · Thomas Keller · Norm Ketchum · Carl Nessel · Daniel Negreanu · Minh Nguyen · Phi Nguyen · Greg Raymer · Mike Sica · Cyndy Violette · James Vogl
2005 Rafi Amit · Josh Arieh · Randy Boman · Farzad Bonyadi · Andre Boyer · Doyle Brunson · Todd Brunson · Johnny Chan · Jiang Chen · David Chiu · T. J. Cloutier · Allen Cunningham · Quinn Do · Denis Ethier · Eric Froehlich · Issac Galazan · Lawrence Gosney · Michael Gracz · Barry Greenstein · David Grey · Joe Hachem · Steve Hohn · Phil Ivey · Cliff Josephy · Ron Kirk · O'Neil Longson · Paul McKinney · Edward Moncada · Anthony Nguyen · Reza Payvar · John Pires · Pat Poels · Anthony Reategui · Dan Schmiech · Erik Seidel · Mark Seif (2) · Jan Vang Sørensen · Willie Tann · Jennifer Tilly · Thom Werthmann · Brian Wilson · Todd Witteles
2006 Kianoush Abolfathi · Daniel Alaei · Praz Bansi · Dutch Boyd · Jeff Cabanillas · Brandon Cantu · Bob Chalmers · Bill Chen (2) · Scott Clements · Kevin Cover · Allen Cunningham · Sam Farha · Eric Froehlich · Jon Friedberg · Rafe Furst · John Gale · Jamie Gold · James Gorham · Chris Gros · Phil Hellmuth · Anders Henriksson · Ian Johns · Eric Kesselman · Paul Kobel · Jason Lester · Benjamin Lin · Jeff Madsen (2) · Mary Jones Meyer · Clare Miller · Jim Mitchell · Kevin Nathan · Victoriano Perches · Ralph Perry · Max Pescatori · David Pham · Pat Poels · Mats Rahmn · Chip Reese · James Richburg · Mark Vos · Lee Watkinson · David Williams · Jack Zwerner
2007/
2007 ESaif Ahmad · Dario Alioto · Rafi Amit · Dao Bac · Don Baruch · Ernest Bennett · Thomas Bihl · Chandrasekhar Billavara · Steve Billirakis · Alexander Borteh · Burt Boutin · Sally Boyer · Robert Cheung · Michael Chu · Scott Clements · Hoyt Corkins · Allen Cunningham · Freddy Deeb · Lukasz Dumanski · Will Durkee · Bill Edler · Eli Elezra · Saro Getzoyan · Michael Graves · Fred Goldberg · John Guth · Phil Hellmuth · Greg Hopkins · Ryan Hughes · Michael Keiner · Alexander Kravchenko · Jeff Lisandro · James Mackey · Robert Mizrachi · Frederick Narciso · Annette Obrestad · Frankie O'Dell · Ciaran O'Leary · Shankar Pillai · Ben Ponzio · Chris Reslock · James Richburg · Blair Rodman · Francois Safieddine · Tom Schneider (2) · Dan Schreiber · Ralph Schwartz · Erik Seidel · Alan Smurfit · Mike Spegal · David Stucke · Gary Styczynski · Katja Thater · Jason Warner · Ram Vaswani · Jerry Yang · Ryan Young
2008/
2008 EMichael Banducci · Duncan Bell · David Benyamine · Eric Brooks · Andrew Brown · Joe Commisso · David Daneshgar · Peter Eastgate · Sherkhan Farnood · Layne Flack · Phil Galfond · Frank Gary · Alexandre Gomes · Matt Graham · Barry Greenstein · Max Greenwood · Svetlana Gromenkova · Blair Hinkle · Grant Hinkle · Rob Hollink · Jesper Hougaard (2) · Ryan Hughes · Theo Jørgensen · John Juanda · Matt Keikoan · Davidi Kitai · Jonathan Kotula · Martin Klaser · Dan Lacourse · Erick Lindgren · Vitaly Lunkin · Thang Luu · Mike Matusow · Nenad Medic · Dario Minieri · Daniel Negreanu · Scotty Nguyen · Max Pescatori · John Phan (2) · Rep Porter · Anthony Rivera · Michael Rocco · Freddy Rouhani · Sebastian Ruthenberg · James Schaff · Scott Seiver · Vanessa Selbst · Jimmy Shultz · David Singer · Marty Smyth · J.C. Tran · Kenny Tran · Phil Tom · Sebastian Ruthenberg · Luis Velador · Jens Vortman · David Woo · Jason Young
2009/
2009 EBahador Ahmadi · Daniel Alaei · Ken Aldridge · Tomas Alenius · James Van Alstyne · Jerrod Ankenman · Richard Austin · David Bach · Eric Baldwin · Rami Boukai · Joe Cada · Erik Cajelais · Brandon Cantu · Jeff Carris · Andrew Cohen · Michael Davis · Mike Eise · Freddie Ellis · Zac Fellows · Ray Foley · Matt Graham · Angel Guillén · Lisa Hamilton · David Halpern · Anthony Harb · Matt Hawrilenko · Phil Ivey (2) · Carsten Joh · Travis Johnson · John Kabbaj · J.P. Kelly (2) · Brian Lemke · Jeff Lisandro (3) · Vitaly Lunkin · Thang Luu · Jason Mercier · Abe Mosseri · Greg Mueller (2) · Marc Naalden · Brock Parker (2) · Jorg Peisert · Derek Raymond · Barry Shulman · Nick Schulman · Jordan Smith · Keven Stammen · Steve Sung · J.C. Tran · Peter Traply · Tony Veckey · Peter Vilandos · Jani Vilmunen · Ville Wahlbeck · Roland De Wolfe · Leo Wolpert
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- South African poker players
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- Waldorf school alumni
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