Hand #37: Shooting Star Rainer Kempe Eliminated in 6th Place ($188,460)

Chino Rheem raises from the cutoff to 225,000, Shooting Star Rainer Kempe moves all in from the small blind for 2,190,000, and Rheem snap-calls with .

Kempee turns over , and he needs to improve to stay alive.

The board comes , and Rheem wins the pot with his pocket kings to knock out the final Shooting Star bounty in this event, Rainer Kempe, in sixth place.

For knocking out a Shooting Star, Rheem receives $2,500, a Shooting Star Bounty Medallion, and an autographed t-shirt. More importantly, Rheem now has more than half of all the chips in play.

Seat 1.  Paul Volpe  –  1,745,000  (17 bb)
Seat 2.  Chino Rheem  –  13,485,000  (135 bb)
Seat 3.  Sam Panzica  –  3,425,000  (34 bb)
Seat 4.  Rainer Kempe  –  Eliminated in 6th Place  ($188,460)
Seat 5.  Dennis Stevermer  –  2,035,000  (20 bb)
Seat 6.  Anthony Spinella  –  3,500,000  (35 bb)