Rainer Kempe

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Rainer Kempe
Rainer Kempe (2018)
Rainer Kempe (2018)
  Personal information  
Date of birth July 24, 1989
place of birth GermanyGermany Berlin
place of residence United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brighton
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 5,000,000
Total prize money $ 21,427,270
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 31
Best main event no cash
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 8th
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 4th
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 4th
Last updated: May 10, 2020

Rainer Kempe (born July 24, 1989 in Berlin ) is a professional German poker player .

Kempe has earned almost US $ 21.5 million with poker in live tournaments , making it the third most successful German poker player behind Fedor Holz and Christoph Vogelsang . His greatest achievement so far was winning the Super High Roller Bowl in June 2016.

Personal

Kempe comes from Berlin . He attended the Rosa-Luxemburg-Gymnasium in Pankow and later studied business administration at the University of Potsdam and at the University of Sussex in Falmer, England . Kempe lives in Brighton .

Poker career

Career

Kempe has been participating in renowned live tournaments since 2011 .

After Kempe made only small profits from 2011 to 2014 and u. a. was able to place in the money ranks twice at the Main Event of the World Poker Tour , his winnings rose sharply from 2015 onwards. End of January 2015, he finished at a tournament of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne in second place and won the equivalent of 75,000 US dollars . In June 2015 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and achieved two money placements in tournaments of the No Limit Hold'em variant . At the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT), he made it to the final table in Barcelona at the end of August 2015 and landed in fifth place for around 320,000 euros in prize money. He was able to repeat this success about two months later, when he again reached fifth place at the EPT main event in Malta and received over 160,000 euros for it. As part of the EPT in Prague , he won the Mincash in the main event in December 2015 and then won the high roller event. For this he prevailed against 79 other players and won his highest prize money to date of 539,000 euros. In early June 2016 , Kempe won the Super High Roller Bowl at Aria Resort & Casino and received his record prize money of five million US dollars. In early March 2017, he won the 16th Aria Super High Roller and received a prize of 576,000 US dollars. In early December 2017, Kempe won the Bellagio High Roller for $ 351,000. In March 2018, he finished third at the Super High Roller Bowl China in Macau for the equivalent of more than two million US dollars in prize money. At the beginning of April 2018 Kempe finished second behind Andreas Eiler for € 450,000 in a € 25k Super High Roller at the partypoker Millions in Barcelona . In mid-November 2018, he finished seventh at the Millions World at the partypoker Caribbean Poker Party in Nassau , Bahamas, and received prize money of US $ 350,000. In January 2019, Kempe won a US $ 50,000 PokerStars Caribbean Adventures event in the Bahamas and secured a prize of more than US $ 900,000. About two weeks later, he also prevailed in the A $ 25,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions in Melbourne and received prize money of almost 830,000 Australian dollars due to a deal with Toby Lewis . He then made it to the final table of the A $ 100,000 Challenge and finished in fourth place, worth around 450,000 Australian dollars. At the beginning of May 2019, Kempe won a tournament at the EPT in Monte-Carlo and secured the main prize of around 400,000 euros.

Prize money overview

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2011 00.00.2044 -
2012 00.017,689 -
2013 00.019,479 -
2014 00.00.3362 -
2015 01,557,922 1
2016 06,627,500 2
2017 03,368,467 3
2018 05,705,799 6th
2019 03,918,678 5
2020 00.206.334 -
total 21,427,270 17th

Web links

Commons : Rainer Kempe  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SG Blankenburg eV Kader ( memento from December 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on sgblankenburg.de, accessed on March 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d Rainer Kempe in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 15, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ Seat 2: Rainer Kempe, 26, Berlin, Germany, now UK - PokerStars qualifier on pokernews.com from October 30, 2015, accessed on March 15, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ Rainer Kempe: The Poker Pro Player in Check 2019. Accessed on October 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 2015 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 1,025 + 125 # 6 No Limit Holdem Accumulator) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 15, 2016.
  6. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 3,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed (Event # 51)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 26, 2019.
  7. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 1,111 No Limit Hold'em Little One for One-Drop (Event # 61)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 26, 2019.
  8. ↑ EPT - 12 - ESPT - 6 - Barcelona (€ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event # 29) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 15, 2016 (English).
  9. ↑ EPT - 12 - IPT - 7 - Malta (€ 5,000 + 300 # 32 No Limit Hold'em EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 15, 2016 (English).
  10. ↑ EPT - 12 - EUREKA - 5 - Prague (€ 5,000 + 300 # 38 No Limit Hold'em EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 15, 2016 (English).
  11. ↑ EPT - 12 - EUREKA - 5 - Prague (€ 25,000 + 500 # 50 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller - 8 Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 15, 2016 (English).
  12. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl with 888poker ($ 300,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 2, 2016.
  13. ↑ Aria Super High Roller 16 ($ 48,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 6, 2017.
  14. ↑ WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - Bellagio High Roller # 15 - (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 5, 2017.
  15. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl China (HK $ 2,000,000 + 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Bowl) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 22, 2018 (English).
  16. ↑ partypoker Millions Grand Final Barcelona (€ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - € 25k Super High Roller # 2) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 9, 2018 (English).
  17. ↑ partypoker Caribbean Poker Party ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Millions World) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 14, 2018.
  18. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2019 ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 13)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 10, 2019.
  19. ↑ Rainer Kempe Wins 2019 Aussie Millions AU $ 25,000 Challenge for AU $ 826,465 on pokernews.com on January 26, 2019, accessed on January 27, 2019.
  20. ↑ 2019 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Challenge # 20) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 5, 2019.
  21. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo (€ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 36)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 4, 2019 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Kempe, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poker player
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany