2021 World Series of Poker Europe

Event #10: €25,000 NLH Platinum High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

2021 World Series of Poker Europe

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k5
Prize
€518,430
Event Info
Buy-in
€25,000
Prize Pool
€1,682,640
Entries
72
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
600,000
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
52
Players Left
33

Westmorland Tops Day 1 in Event #10: €25,000 NLH Platinum High Roller; Martini Continues Hot Run

Level 12 : 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Jordan Westmorland
Jordan Westmorland

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

PositionPlayerCountryChip CountBig Blinds
1Jordan WestmorlandUnited States3,715,000186
2Julien MartiniFrance2,240,000112
3Johan GuilbertFrance1,845,00092
4Laszlo BujtasHungary1,465,00073
5Fahredin MustafovBulgaria1,400,00070
6Tom-Aksel BedellNorway1,343,00067
7Jack SinclairUnited Kingdom1,278,00064
8Eelis PärssinenFinland1,077,00054
9Andrea RicciItaly1,076,00054
10Christophe PanettiSwitzerland1,026,00051

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.

Julien Martini
Julien Martini

Notable casualties on Day 1 included the WSOP bracelet winners Armando D'Avanzo, Ole Schemion and Martin Kabrhel along with Elias Gutierrez, Tamas Adamszki, and Christopher Puetz. The rise of Westmorland culminated in the final two levels when he first knocked out Manuel Fritz in a set-over-set scenario and then won a big flip during the final hands of the night against fellow big stack Tom Vogelsang.

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.

Tags: Andrea RicciArmando D'AvanzoEelis PärssinenFahredin MustafovJack SinclairJohan GuilbertJoni JouhkimainenJordan WestmorlandJulien MartiniLaszlo BujtasTom Vogelsang