Perkins Pays Kempe
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Rainer Kempe, who won this event last year, is off to a good start defending his title as he's over 400,000. He just played a pot from the cutoff where the board ran out , and he bet 44,000 on the river when Bill Perkins checked to him. Perkins announced a call, and Kempe showed for a winning flush.
Kempe - 406,000
Perkins - 205,000