-- Chip count: 10,120,000


-- Age 23

-- From Arlington in Texas

-- College Student

-- Has been playing poker for only about 18 months

-- Plays the guitar

-- Plans to buy his family a swimming pool with the prize money

-- Paid cash to enter

Not your ordinary college kid,Marquis attends school inTexas, majors in finance, andcounts guys like Tom ‘durrrr’Dwan and Dave ‘Raptor’Benefield as his friends. He’sproud of his performance –‘I won a 12m-chip pot byreading a bluff off BrandonCantu. It’s one of the besthands I’ve ever played.’