Joni Jouhkimainen raised from middle position and was called by Andrea Ricci out of the big blind. On the flop, Ricci elected to check-call for 60,000 and checked again the on the turn. Jouhkimainen fired a second larger barrel worth 185,000 and Ricci tank-folded.
During the final hands of the night, Tom Vogelsang raised to 40,000 on the button and Martin Kabrhel three-bet to 160,000 out of the small blind. Jordan Westmorland four-bet to 350,000 in the big blind and Vogelsang then five-bet jammed for 1,4320,000. Kabrhel folded and Westmorland called with the covering stack.
Tom Vogelsang:
Jordan Westmorland:
The board delivered the final blow to Vogelsang and cemented the Day 1 lead for Westmorland.
Only 33 players bagged up chips as Martin Kabrhel was eliminated by the straight of Julien Martini. Full chip counts and a recap of today's action are to follow.
The most expensive tournament of the 2021 World Series of Poker Europe festival has concluded Day 1 and easily surpassed the €1 million guarantee at the King's Resort in Rozvadov. After 12 levels of 40 minutes each in Event #10: €25,000 NLH Platinum High Roller, a field of 52 entries was cut down to 33 survivors and the late registration and re-entry period remains open for high-stakes contenders from near and far.
A late surge in the final levels of the night propelled Jordan Westmorland to the top of the leaderboard by a wide margin as he increased his starting stack more than seven-fold. Two knockouts in the final two levels saw Westmorland's stack skyrocket to 3,715,000 and he has almost as many chips at his disposal as Julien Martini (2,240,000) and Johan Guilbert (1,845,000) have combined.
Top 10 Chip Counts Day 1 in Event #10: €25,000 NLH Platinum High Roller
Position
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Jordan Westmorland
United States
3,715,000
186
2
Julien Martini
France
2,240,000
112
3
Johan Guilbert
France
1,845,000
92
4
Laszlo Bujtas
Hungary
1,465,000
73
5
Fahredin Mustafov
Bulgaria
1,400,000
70
6
Tom-Aksel Bedell
Norway
1,343,000
67
7
Jack Sinclair
United Kingdom
1,278,000
64
8
Eelis Pärssinen
Finland
1,077,000
54
9
Andrea Ricci
Italy
1,076,000
54
10
Christophe Panetti
Switzerland
1,026,000
51
Big names with above-average stacks also include Laszlo Bujtas, Jack Sinclair, Eelis Pärssinen, and Joni Jouhkimainen. Martini comes fresh off a victory in Event #8: €2,500 Short Deck, during which he claimed his second gold bracelet. The Frenchman then entered the high-stakes contest and bagged up the second-biggest stack. Likewise, Italy's Andrea Ricci had a successful at the poker tables as he finished fourth in Event #5: €550 NLH COLOSSUS before running up a top 10 stack as well.
All those wishing to enter or re-enter the tournament can do so for the first two 40-minute levels on Day 2. The action is slated to get underway at noon local time with level 13 and blinds of 10,000/20,000 and a big blind ante of 20,000, which gives late entrants 25 big blinds when the cards go back in the air at King's Resort.
Even though the tournament was initially scheduled as a two-day event, it has been expanded to a third day as the final table will be streamed on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, on the PokerGO platform. The PokerNews live reporting team will be back to provide all the action until a winner has been crowned.
flop, Ricci elected to check-call for 60,000 and checked again the 
on the turn. Jouhkimainen fired a second larger barrel worth 185,000 and Ricci tank-folded.
