After two fifth-place finishes in European Poker Tour main events, and both a World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker final table, Rainer Kempe won the biggest tournament of his poker career by taking down the EPT12 Prague €25,000 Single-Day High Roller for €539,000 after a grueling 15-hour day on Friday. Kempe battled through a stacked field of 80 entries that created a massive prize pool worth just shy of two-million euros to beat Frenchman Jean-Noel Thorel heads up.
The day started out with a calm before the storm, as the high rollers took it easy for the first few levels.