An incredible hand just played out.

Salvatore rasied to $240,000 pre-flop, an incredibly large raise, only to see Konstandinos, the chip leader reraise all-in for not one, but two meeeeelion chips!

Konstantinos says, "I think you have ace-king!"

Salvatore considers this, wrapped up in his old-timer version of the Dario Minieri scarf, before ... passing!

Incredible pass given how much he put in pre-flop ... even more incredible when you consider he had A-K!

Konstantinos shows he completely pwned the Italian's soul, showing down A-Q and celebrating by grabbing two drinks from the rail, laughing heartily.

Meanwhile Salvatore looks like someone just kicked him in the unmentionables ... and the poker continues!

Alexiou Konstantinos raises to $80,000 and Massimo De Cicco moves all-in for his last $247,000 under the top. Action folds back to Konstantinos, who makes the call with a startling 8 6 to De Cicco's A 2. The flop is a good one for De Cicco, coming A J T to give the boy top pair.

The turn is the K, giving Konstantinos outs to chop, but the river is the 9 and De Cicco doubles up to stay alive.

In a battle of the blinds, Salvatore Bonavena raises from the small blind and Alexiou Konstantinos puts him all-in in the big blind. Bonavena makes the call, tabling A J, and finds himself a favorite against Konstantinos' K T.

The flop once again brings the drama, coming J 7 6 to give Bonavena top pair and Konstantinos the diamond flush draw. The turn is the 3 and the river the 6 and Bonavena manages to dodge the diamonds to double up and stay alive.

Bond's archnemesis Fredrik Nygard saw Chen ship it in from the small blind, looked down at A 8 and made the call for his stack.

Chen had the "hand-caught-in-cookie-jar" hand of Q 2.

The worst hand has had a way of outdrawing the better hand today though and that pattern was evident again as the flop fell K 3 2 to bust Chen into the lead.

The T 4 turn and river were no good to Nygard, meaning James Bond can sleep easy as Nygard bites the dust, winning €130,000.

Good game sir.

Nygard and Konstantinos go to a flop of K 6 6.

Nygard bets $85,000. Konstantinos calls.

TURN: J

Nygard bets $120,000. The Greek player again makes the call.

RIVER: 4

Nygard checks and now Konstantinos bets out $200,000. A confused-looking Nygard makes the call, only for Konstantinos to revel in his moment as he flips up 6-6 for quads!

"YEAHHHHHHHHH!" he shouts as Blofeld's head droops sadly.

Nygard now pretty short ....

Fredrik Nygard was now very short and propelled his stack into the middle with A-5, only for Chen to make what was one of the first few insta-calls of the final, with the dominant A-T.

Were we about to lose the final's only Bond villain?

FLOP: A 6 3

All good so far, Chen looked like he was about to deliver that knockout blow.

TURN: 7

Interesting. Gut-shot draw for Nygard. Four or five required to get him out of it ...

RIVER: 4!

Incredible! It's been a final chock-full of bad beats, and another one is delivered to keep the Finn in contention with a timely double-up.

Andrew Chen raises to $71,000 and the action folds to Salvatore Bonavena, who makes it $135,000 on the button. The blinds get out and Chen matches the small reraise. We're heads-up to the flop, which comes K T 2.

Chen checks to Bonavena, who bets out $220,000 and is called by the young Canadian. The turn is the K and again Chen checks. Bonavena checks behind and the river is the 8.

Both players check once more and Chen turns up K-J for trips. It's good and Chen takes the pot.

Di Cicco just shipped his stack into the middle and Blofeld lookey-likey Fredrik Nygard buried his head in his hands as he has done several times before prior to ... making the call!

Di Cicco: K 9

Nygard: K J

The Italian looks in bad shape, and we could have a quick post-dinner elimination on our hands!

The flop falls an incredible 9 3 3!

Once again the Italian player gets very lucky and hits top pair with his dominated hand, though Nygard has his flush draw and jack to fall back on.

The turn and river fall the 4 5 though and Uncle Festa takes a big hit whilst the Italian rail shows signs of life, cheering their fortunate hero on as he doubles through.

The players are just reseating following the dinner break and the dealer is shuffling up.

It's back on!

A quiet period has seen a caginess permeate the game as some big money jumps are approached. Suddenly though a flurry of raises came, and we had an all-in!

Francesco Cirianni just reshoved over a Salvatore Bonavena raise to $56k for his $314k stack.

Bonevena sighed before making the call with A Q, and it proved a good one, as Cirianni could only table J 8 for a mistimed resteal!

Cirianni looked likely to fall victim to his Italian compatriot until the flop fell kindly for him, being dealt out 8 5 3!

The turned T and rivered K did nothing to change the status quo, and the fortunate Cirianni doubles through.

Quote from the EPT commentary box as the chunky Cirianni swept in the pot:

"Fortune favours the bulk!"

That hand brought the level to a close. In contrast to previous days, the players are being given a one-hour dinner break, so while they disappear to restock on nutrients and plan their assault on the last few spot, we shall do likewise.

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