Jelinek back from the brink at dinner

Jelinek now has 230,000 chips

Petr Jelinek looked bound for 10th place just before our hour long dinner break but somehow he survived with A2 vs both Gabor Bank and Nikola Szarkezi to stay alive.

The Czech player had been crippled by a clash with Vitezslav Meisner that left him with all of 35,000 chips, but that treble means he is no longer the shortest stack in the room!

Jelinek had raised pre-flop and seen K♥8♦5♥ arrive on the flop, but it was the later streets that prompted the greater action.

Petr bet the 4♥ and then checked the 5♣ river, before tanking when his rival shoved his remaining stack. Eventually he settled on a call, however, and was dismayed to see Vitezslav had turned a set with 4♣4♠ to top his pocket Jacks.

His seemingly inevitable exit was initially delayed by a fiery hand between Ertan Aldikacti and Pietr Sowinski. Ertan was the pre-flop aggressor but check-called the 6 high flop; both players then took a free card on the river and Sowinski fired out for 180,000 on the river, having completed a set of nines.

His Turkish rival even called the hand aloud before any cards were shown, but let curiosity get the better of him and called anyway.