Fredrik Nygard raises to $39,000 and Alexiou Konstantinos reraises to $229,000. Action folds back to Nygard, who makes the call, and the flop comes K Q 6. Nygard checks to Konstantinos, who checks behind, and the turn is the J. Again both players check.

The river is the 5 and Nygard checks again. Konstantinos makes as though to check before grabbing a random handful of chips and throwing it into the middle. It's worth $120,000 and Nygard, clearly befuddled, gives the matter some thought and then makes the call. 

Konstantinos turns up J 7 for third pair and, amazingly, it's good to take the pot.

The standard of play at this final table has been, to put it charitably, questionable. Very questionable. Take this last hand as an example:

Massimo Di Cicco min-raises preflop and Fredrik Nygard defends his big blind. The flop comes Q 6 3 and Di Cicco bets out $100,000 into an $86,000 pot. Nygard thinks for a minute or two before putting Di Cicco all-in for his last $211,000. Di Cicco folds rather quickly and Nygard takes the pot.

Chen hasn't slowed down since becoming the short stack, and again shipped in his stack of $224k, only for Bonavena to make the call.

Chen sighed as once again he was dominated with K 9, Bonavena showing down K Q.

Chen had already sucked out one time and this time his suck-out was even more dramatic, the board falling a conclusive A 9 9!

With only backdoor draws to get Bonavena out of the hole, the 4 ended any possibility of a resuck, and the Canadian grinned happily as fortune smiled on him once again and he doubled through to $460k or so.

Massimo Di Cicco is now the short stack and most likely to exit next ...

Nasr El Nasr just went for the blinds with a raise to $36,000, but the mission was aborted when Italian Francesco Cirianni repopped to a relatively small-looking $71,000.

Nasr was not interested in going any further in the hand, laying it down quickly and leaving the Italian to sweep up the pot gratefully.

As the short stack, Andrew Chen looked likely to be the next elimination, and when he shipped it in with Q-7, only to be looked up by Konstantinos' K-Q, the future looked bleak for the young Canadian.

He ran good this time though, spiking a seven on a 7 3 2 board and never relinquishing that advantage as the turn and river blanked out with the 9 and 4.

Back up to $260k, Chen still has some way to go before he is back in the reckoning for the top spots, but he will be buoyed by that double-up nonetheless ...

We've played a half-hour at this final table and the blinds are moving up to $8,000/$16,000 with a $2,000 ante. Stay tuned for more hot poker action coming at you immediately!

Chen has already laddered up one spot but was looking to increase his stock, raising to $30,000 pre-flop, only for Alexiou Konstantinos to call the additional $18,000 from the big blind.

The flop fell K 8 2 and both players checked the board.

The turn was the 9 and now Konstantinos led for $30,000.

Chen called ...

The river was the 6 and now Konstantinos made a big bet of purple $10,000 chips totaling $120,000. Anguish racked the Canadian's face, but he made the call, only for a jubilant Konstantinos to show down two pair in 9 6, raising his arms in the air and cheering as Chen shook his head miserably, half his stack disappearing in one fell swoop.

We predicted a fast start and the players haven't disappointed!

Raul Mestre raised it up to $30,000, only for Blofeld look-alike Fredrik Nygard to reraise to $100,000.

Raul now shoved for his $311,000 stack!

Nygard looked pained and went into the tank, at one point looking like he might resurface stroking a furry cat, but instead he made what proved an inspired call with 9 9, as Mestre could only table the comparatively weak A 7!

The flop fell J 8 3 and it looked like bad news for the Spaniard, but then the A spiked on the turn!

Relief spilled over Mestre's face as he hit his three-outer to take the lead.

He still had to fade a nine or heart on the river though, which fell ... the Q!

Incredible! Two hands in and we'd already witnessed the classic suck/resuck in effect, as Mestre was sent crashing to the rail and banished to the cash desk to collect his €71,800 consolation prize.

The players are seated and are currently being introduced. 

We will be starting shortly so here's a quick reminder of how the players are seated, along with their starting stacks.

Alexiou Konstandinos	$1,382,000	Seat 1
Nasr El Nasr	$376,000	Seat 2
Massimo Di Cicco	$429,000	Seat 3
Francesco Cirianni	$807,000	Seat 4
Raul Mestre	$313,000	Seat 5
Andrew Chen	$309,000	Seat 6
Fredrik Nygard	$666,000	Seat 7
Salvatore Bonavena	$1,402,000	Seat 8

The players have all been introduced and the cards are in the air from the final table of the PokerStars EPT Prague main event. Follow along on PokerListings.com or PokerListings Twitter as we play down to a champion!