David Rheem

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David Rheem
David Rheem (2019)
David Rheem (2019)
  Personal information  
Date of birth April 15, 1980
place of birth United StatesUnited States West Palm Beach
Nickname Chinos
place of residence United StatesUnited States Miami
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 1,772,650
Total prize money $ 11,244,245
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 33
Best main event 7. ( 2008 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title 3
Cashes 9
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 2
  Main Event of party poker Live  
title no
Cashes 2
Last updated: April 12, 2020

David Y. "Chino" Rheem (born April 15, 1980 in West Palm Beach , Florida ) is a professional American poker player with Asian roots.

Rheem has earned more than eleven million US dollars with poker in live tournaments . He is three-time champions of the World Poker Tour and won in 2019, the Main Event of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure .

Personal

Rheem graduated from Berkmar High School in Lilburn , Georgia , in 1997 . When he was 18, he moved to Los Angeles . Rheem left California after being sentenced to four months in prison for burglary, theft, and possession of marijuana . Today he lives in Miami .

Poker career

Career

Rheem has been playing poker since 1998 . He started with smaller stakes in the Seminole Casino in Hollywood and has been participating in prestigious live tournaments since 2004 .

In June 2005 Rheem was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and was able to place in the money twice. At the 2006 WSOP, he narrowly missed winning a bracelets and finished with a tournament variant No Limit Hold'em behind Allen Cunningham took second place for a prize of more than 300,000 US dollars . Two years later, he reached the final table of the Main Event , which was played in November 2008. Rheem, who was considered a favorite by many despite arriving as a short stack, finished the tournament in seventh place and received more than $ 1.5 million in prize money.

In mid-December 2008, Rheem won the Five Diamond World Poker Classic on the World Poker Tour (WPT) at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, again collecting over 1.5 million US dollars. In August 2011, he won the Epic Poker League Main Event and secured $ 1 million in prize money. In mid-May 2013 Rheem won his second WPT title and won the WPT World Championship for a prize of more than one million US dollars. In mid-April 2016 he won the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood and thus as the fourth player after Gus Hansen , Carlos Mortensen and Anthony Zinno his third title on the World Poker Tour . In January 2019, Rheem prevailed at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event in the Bahamas and received a prize of more than 1.5 million US dollars. About three weeks later, he finished third in the A $ 25,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne, worth around 415,000 Australian dollars .

Prize money overview

Rheem at a WPT event in Brussels (2019)
year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2004 00.00.1165 -
2005 00.097.224 1
2006 00.429.273 1
2007 00.040,453 1
2008 03,409,624 1
2009 00.310.225 2
2010 00.302.067 1
2011 01,054,431 1
2012 00.143.145 -
2013 01,368,777 2
2014 00.181,589 -
2015 00.038,277 -
2016 00.827.280 1
2017 00.643.218 -
2018 00.091,026 -
2019 02,012,924 1
2020 00.293,548 -
total 11,244,245 12

Web links

Commons : David Rheem  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Чино Рим (Chino Rheem) on propokerpro.net, accessed on April 27, 2016 (Russian).
  2. ↑ a b c David Rheem in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 27, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ a b An overview of the Chino-Rheem controversy ( memento from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on pokerolymp.com from May 29, 2013, accessed on April 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 ($ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 27, 2016 (English).
  5. ↑ November Nine - Seat 6: David Rheem on pokerfirma.com November 5, 2008, accessed April 27, 2016.
  6. ↑ 39th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2008 ($ 10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2016 (English).
  7. ↑ 2008 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 15,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em - Doyle Brunson Classic) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2016 (English).
  8. ↑ 2011–12 Epic Poker League - Event 1 ($ 20,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed - League Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2016.
  9. ↑ WPT World Championship ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - WPT World Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2016 (English).
  10. ↑ WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale # 22) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2016.
  11. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2019 ($ 10,300 No Limit Hold'em - PCA Main Event (Event # 20)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 17, 2019.
  12. ↑ 2019 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 24,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Challenge # 9) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Rheem, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rheem, David Y. (full name); Rheem, Chino (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH West Palm Beach , Florida , United States