Life of Rainer Kempe, Including Wealth, Failures, and Personal Details

Rainer Kempe Poker: An Overview

A professional poker player, Rainer Kempe, hails from Germany. On July 24, 1989, he entered the world in Berlin, Germany.

He competes in the highest stakes tournaments all over the world for big money. With $21.5 million in live tournament cashes, he ranks in the top 5 all-time money earners in Germany and the top 50 of all-time earners worldwide. There are two European Poker Tour titles on his list of accomplishments from live tournaments.

Poker players such as Fedor Holz, Stefan Schillhabel, Steffen Sontheimer, Christoph Vogelsang, and Manig Loeser are considered to be members of the “golden generation” of German players. He is also considered to be a member of this generation. Many of them are close friends or colleagues of Kempe’s.

He is dating Maria Ho, an accomplished poker player, and commentator who was born in Taiwan but now lives in the United States.

Important Dates in His Career

• In 2011, he began competing in live tournaments in his native Germany.
• In 2015, he took home €539,000 after winning the €25,500 No Limit Hold’em High Roller at the European Poker Tour stop in Prague.
• In 2016, he took home $5 million after winning the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria. So far, that’s his biggest payday from any live tournament.
• In 2017, he got to the final table of the $111,111 WSOP High Roller for One Drop event, where he placed 7th and won $493,089.

Initiation of Rainer Kempe’s Professional Life

Kempe began playing poker on the side while he was a student at the University of Potsdam studying business administration.

When Rainer was a kid, he wasn’t fantasizing about huge point totals. “Back then, I was happy to finish the night with five or ten euros,” he said in a 2016 interview for pokerlisting.com.

He completed his education in Germany and then relocated to the UK. There, he made the decision to turn poker into something more than a pastime—a serious means of supporting himself. Because of this, he began competing in online tournaments for money.

In 2015, he had the funds to enter the highest-stakes live and online tournaments. He also participated in the thriving German poker staking market, which he praised for its abundance of opportunities to purchase or sell action.

By the way, Kempe is still a British citizen who resides in Brighton, England.

Live Tournaments Where Kempe Played

According to his Hendon profile, Kempe has won a total of $21.573 million in live tournaments. He won that sum over the course of 10 years at 152 separate live events. In terms of lifetime earnings, he is now in the top 5 in Germany and in the top 30 worldwide.

His profile shows his first cash deposit was made in December 2011. He finished in tenth place, winning €1,572, in the €330 No Limit Hold’em tournament at the Berlin stop of the Triple A Series. At the Aussie Millions in January 2015, he finished in second place, winning A$93,000 ($76,134) in the A$1,150 NLHE Accumulator event.

Subsequently, that same year, in August 2015, he made his first live score of over $100,000. The European Poker Tour Main Event in Barcelona was worth €5,300, and he made it to the final table before he was eliminated in fifth place. It was worth about $364,716 at the time, but he took home €320,400.

One month later, in Oct. 2015, he won €161,340 as the fifth-place finisher in a €5,300 EPT Main Event in Portomaso, Malta.

Soon after, he began winning major tournaments. In December 2015, he won EPT Prague’s €25,250 High Roller 8-Handed event for €539,000. He defeated fellow German poker superstar Fedor Holz in a heads-up match to claim the $300,000 Aria Super High Roller Bowl in May 2016. That performance earned Kempe at least $5 million, making it his largest prize haul from a single live tournament.

For an additional $576,000, he won a $50,000 Aria High Roller tournament in March of 2017. He won €400,850 at the 2019 EPT Monte Carlo €25,000 NLHE event, making it his second EPT championship win overall. In addition, in January 2019, he won the $25,000 No Limit Hold’em Challenge at the Aussie Millions, which earned him A$831,465 ($590,814).

To the tune of HK$16 million ($2.040 million), he finished third at the HK$2,100,000 NLHE Super High Roller Bowl Macau in March 2018. In January of this year, he won $908,100 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $50,000 No Limit hold ’em event in the Bahamas.

Kempe on World Series of Poker

Reiner Kempe has not yet won a WSOP gold bracelet.

Even so, he did win some sizable pots at the World Series of Poker. The $493,089 he won as the seventh-place finisher in 2017’s $111,111 High Roller for One Drop event is his biggest World Series cash to date. The previous year, in 2015, he finished in 24th place and won $187,576 at the same tournament. In 2015, he earned $90,189 for placing 7th in the $1,111 Little One for One Drop NLHE tournament.

Kempe has earned a total of $1.296 million from 48 World Series of Poker cashes.

Live Cash Games of Kempe

Kempe has spent his entire career focusing on tournaments, neither playing cash games nor putting in any significant time at a live table. So, he hasn’t played live cash games on most any Television programs or streams.

Kempe Plays Poker over the Internet

Just after relocating to England, Kempe began playing poker seriously by grinding out cash in online tournaments, as we previously reported.

But it’s unclear from which website he launched his assault. Natural8-GGNetwork and WSOP.com are his only two accounts accessible to the general public; the former uses his given name, while the latter uses Rainer Kempe.

He accumulated a few sizable balances on those profiles.

He placed second in the January 2022 WSOP Circuit Online Series: $250 Sunday Monster Stack event on GG known for its GG poker app, winning a total of $19,162. In addition, in August of 2020, on the same website, he placed in the money at the $5,000 WSOP Online Main Event, finishing 489th out of 5,802 players to win $14,634. He placed sixth in the $7,777 NLHE – Lucky 7’s High Roller WSOP Online event in November 2021, winning $68,208.

Who are His Sponsors

Kempe was officially hired in June of 2019 as GreySnowPoker’s first ambassador. In 2020, GreySnowPoker, a website devoted to poker, online gambling, and electronic sports, will close its virtual doors for good.

Proud to share the news of teaming up with GreySnow poker! I’ll post some updates on both the site and on working alongside the Native American community soon. https://t.co/3rwSzyWwFl

— Rainer Kempe (@GatsbyKempinho) June 15, 2019

The German poker pros, Stefan Schillhabel, Fedor Holz, Manig Loeser, and Steffen Sontheimer, are all friends and teammates of his in the “No Limit Gaming group,” which he helps manage. Poker players and eSports competitors from League of Legends and Counter-Strike form this group.