Marcel Vonk

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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|14 January 1974}}

| birth_place = Leiderdorp[http://albumacademicum.uva.nl/id/id056436 M.L. Vonk, 1974 -] at the UvA Album Academicum website.

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| wsop bracelet count = 1

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Marcel Louis Vonk (born 14 January 1974) is a poker player and the first Dutch person to win a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet in No Limit Hold'em (NLHE). On 5 July 2010, he beat out 3,843 opponents to capture the gold bracelet in event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em, taking home $570,960 USD for the victory.{{Cite web |last=Schult |first=Steve |date=July 5, 2010 |title=World Series of Poker -- Marcel Vonk Wins Event No. 54 |url=https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/9380-world-series-of-poker-marcel-vonk-wins-event-no-54 |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=Card Player}} He has live tournament winnings exceeding $1,100,000.{{Cite web |title=Marcel Vonk's profile on The Hendon Mob |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=130555 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}

Personal life

Marcel Vonk has a Ph.D. in physics from University of Amsterdam, and works as a researcher in string theory at the University of Amsterdam. In 2010 he authored a book on string theory in Dutch.{{cite web |url=http://www.marcelvonk.nl/?p=boek-snaartheorie |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100711065256/http://www.marcelvonk.nl/?p=boek-snaartheorie |archive-date=11 July 2010 |title=Boek: Snaartheorie - Marcelvonk.nl}}