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Player · Germany

Rainer Kempe

Berlin, Germany

$23,534,768Live earnings
#3Germany ranking

Rainer Kempe is a Berliner who became one of the most consistent high-roller players in the world. Part of the No Limit Gaming group alongside Fedor Holz and Steffen Sontheimer, he broke through with the 2016 Super High Roller Bowl, a $300,000 buy-in event he won for $5,000,000, and followed it with two EPT high-roller titles, the 2019 PCA $50,000 High Roller and the 2019 Aussie Millions AU$25,000 Challenge. In 2025 he added his first WSOP bracelet in the $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty. Now living in Brighton, England, he has more than $23 million in live earnings, fourth on Germany's all-time list.

Recent results

DateEventWherePlacePrize
1 May 2016Super High Roller Bowl $300,000Las Vegas1$5,000,000
1 Jan 2019PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $50,000 High RollerNassau1$908,100
1 Jan 2019Aussie Millions AU$25,000 ChallengeMelbourne1A$831,465
1 Dec 2015EPT Prague €25,500 High RollerPrague1€539,000
1 Jun 2025WSOP $10,000 Super Turbo BountyLas Vegas1—

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Sources: Wikipedia (birth, residence, results, bracelet, NLG), retrieved 2026-09-12; The Hendon Mob (total live earnings, Germany all-time rank), retrieved 2026-09-12. Last checked 2026-09-12. Figures are as published by the sources and may be incomplete.

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