Event #48: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em MONSTER STACK

Day 2 of Event #48: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em MONSTER STACK is in the books. A total of 2,085 out of 6,260 players came back to battle it out and try to build their stacks but while some managed to do so, others lost their stacks in the process.

At the end of ten levels, it was two-time bracelet winner Steve Billirakis bagged a top stack with 1,399,000. Back in 2007, Billirakis became the youngest WSOP bracelet winner ever by collecting the coveted prize at just 21 years and 10 days of age. Eleven years later, he's a seasoned veteran with $2,137,234 in earnings at the WSOP and will be looking to add another bracelet to his collection.

Billirakis is closely followed by James Stewart (1,220,000), Raul Manzanares Lozano (1,176,000) and David Neiman 1,160,000. Lozano managed to pop the money bubble at Level 15 of the tournament when his jacks beat his opponent's ace-king. Aditya Agarwal rounds up the top five stacks with 1,100,000. Agarwal has $498,210 in cashes at the WSOP, including four cashes in No-Limit Hold'em events this summer.

Some other stars who are still in the running for the elusive WSOP gold bracelet and first-place prize of $1,037,451 include bracelet winners Gaurav Raina (357,000), Jackie Glazier (275,000) and Nipun Java (101,000), as well as Jimmy Guerrero (940,000), five-time ring winner Kurt Jewell (768,000) and Aliaksei Boika (597,000).

Once the bubble burst and the remaining 939 players were guaranteed $2,251, the rest of the day brought many casualties to reduce the surviving field to just 257 players.

There were several bracelet holders that took a shot at more glory and made it to day 2 but couldn't survive another day including Alexandru Papazian (930th place), Jack Duong (886th place), Jared Hamby (837th place), Benjamin Zamani (833rd place), Athanasios Polychronopoulos (789th place), Peter Eichhardt (702nd place), Will Givens (676th place), Phillip Hui (670th place), Scott Davies (639th place), Blair Hinkle (626th place), Mark Radoja (589th place), Loni Harwood (521st place), Ryan Riess (520th place), Ronnie Bardah (487th place), Tuan Le (501st place), Calvin Anderson (423rd place), Dan Heimiller (412th place) and Alex Bilokur (359th place).

Other notables who didn't find a bag include Gaelle Bauman (804th place), Sylvain Loosli (641st place), Simon Deadman (635th place), Kitty Kuo (595th place), Jose Aguilera (529th place), Daniel Strelitz (491st place), Darryll Fish (490th place), as well as Kfir Ivgi (682nd place), who started the day as the chip leader but couldn't keep it up.

Just two more days remain before another millionaire will be crowned at 2018 World Series of Poker. The 257 remaining players will come back on Tuesday, June 26th, at 11 a.m. local time and will start the day at Level 21 with blinds of 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante.

The PokerNews team will be bringing full coverage of this and every other WSOP event this summer.

Monika Zukowicz opened to 18,000 in middle position and the player in the big blind called.

On the     flop, the big blind checked. Zukowicz bet 18,000 and the big blind called. The turn brought the   and was checked through to the   river. This time, the big blind threw in a bet of 42,000. Zukowicz made the call.

The big blind tabled    and Zukowicz showed    to win the pot.

Monika Zukowicz

335,000

150,000

Each of these players has received $4,528.

Oleksandr Trokhymenko	0	-103,900
Gustavo Hoffmann	0	-86,000
Corentin Briglia	0	-32,300
Michael Bublitz	0	-64,100
Chris Edwards	0	0
Scott Haze	0	-115,000
David Baba	0	-116,200
Yonatan Basin	0	-66,200
Theodore Pasinski	0	-38,000
Ranjeet Pawar	0	-49,700
Kyle Shigano	0	-66,700
James Hodges	0	-34,100
Thiago Palmieri	0	-92,100
Christopher Tham	0	-17,900
Mike Lesle	0	-15,300
Kevin Naegelen	0	-83,400
Sean Edelenbos	0	-73,700
Paulo Gini	0	-56,000
Jon Turner	0	-100,000
Mykel Comroe	0	-131,200
Marco Bognanni	0	-88,200
Robert Defabrizio	0	-82,500
Andrew Marson	0	-18,400
George Smallwood	0	-82,900
Alan Lipson	0	-34,300
Julien Sitbon	0	-28,000
Dan Heimiller	0	-66,700
Saul Requenez	0	-83,900
Alex Bilokur	0	-53,300
Chris Heintschel	0	-40,300
Joshua Vanduyn	0	-103,100
Patricia Cardner	0	-14,100
Jacob Staley	0	-53,100
Michael Krumenacker	0	-29,400
Andrew Rubin	0	-49,000
Mickey Craft	0	-375,000
Neil Merrell	0	-26,300
John Parks	0	-121,100
Ramin Kaikhah	0	-20,900
Mearl Wisehart	0	-171,800
Kami Hudson	0	-16,600
Derek Peluso	0	-44,900
Bruno Benveniste	0	-66,600
Blaise Dsylva	0	0
Julian Black	0	-29,300
Justin Tucker	0	0
Brian Lamanna	0	-42,000
Alan Ho	0	-32,700
Eric Wasylenko	0	-98,000
Ben Farrell	0	-108,000
Jared Strauss	0	-33,000
Chang Luo	0	-222,000
Antal Mezei	0	-114,000
Joshua Dickinson	0	-26,200
Martin Stoller	0	-84,000
John Mccauley	0	-50,000
Neven Tsutakawa	0	-22,100
Jonathan West	0	-48,500
David Byer	0	-106,500
Joseph Mcgrath	0	-75,500
Jack Shea	0	-35,200

The player under the gun opened to 12,000. The cutoff called, along with Nicholas Lagos in the small blind, as well as the big blind.

The flop came    . Lagos moved all in for 81,000. The big blind was the only caller.

Nicholas Lagos:   
Opponent:   

The turn brought the   and the   river filled up the board giving Lagos a straight to double up.

Nicholas Lagos

198,000

150,700

Matthew Triplett opened to 15,000 in the hijack. Aliaksei Boika, in the big blind, called.

A flop reading     was dealt. Boika checked. Triplett bet 25,000. Boika check-raised to 75,000. Triplett three-bet shoved for 125,000. Boika snap-called.

Aliaksei Boika:   
Matthew Triplett:   

The   turn and   river completed the board and Triplett doubled up.

Aliaksei Boika	280,000	-65,000
Matthew Triplett	280,000	202,300