Amnon Filippi Leads Huge Field into Day 2 of Monster Stack
Welcome back to Day 2 of Event #50: Monster Stack - $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em, an event that saw a combined total 6,035 entrants over the course of two starting flights. 2,902 of those entrants moved on to Day 2, the second of six scheduled days.
Among those scheduled to return is Amnon Fillipi (pictured left, 645,000), who currently sits first on the leaderboard with Mark Johnson (561,000), James Hundt (466,600) and Alisson Piekazewicz (465,800) all chasing him down.
Due to the event featuring a freezeout format entrants were allowed to fire one and only one bullet, which meant that many missed their shot at bagging for Day 2. However, as expected, there are a number of notables scheduled to return. Included on the list are Pierre Neuville, Lily Kiletto, John Racener, Ali Imsirovic, Ygor Yaroshevskyy,Jeannette Mendez and Alex Foxen, to name a few.
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Day 2 resumes at 11 a.m. local time, and players will tackle 10 hour-long levels with a 60-minute dinner break after level six (approximately 5:30 p.m.). Play will restart at level 12, with blinds of 1,000/2,000 and an ante of 2,000. The PokerNews team will be on hand bringing you all the action from when the first card is dealt until the last card hits the felt.
, Haim Ifrach checked from the small blind and Daniel Strelitz bet 7,000 from an early position. 
turn, hitting a flush. The 
river couldn't change anything and Strelitz was left with 20 big blinds.
, giving Mossey hope a spade hit the river. 
, Ferguson holding 
for a full house. The river bricked and the 2017 Player of The Year hit the rail.
flop with both players guarding deep stacks. Cho checked and D'Ambrosio checked as well.
and Cho checked again. D'Ambrosio bet 50,000 and Cho raised to 180,000. D'Ambrosio paused for about a minute and then he announced he was all in for around 450,000. Cho immediately called with a covering stack.
and he saw that he was behind as Cho turned up 
river wasn't any of D'Ambrosio's two outs and Cho scooped the 1 million pot eliminating D'Ambrosio shortly before the end of the level.
, and Amnon, the start-of-day chipleader, was sent to the rail.
, both players checked.
, Cho's opponent check-called for 20,000. The river fell a
and this time the first player led out for 48,000. Cho made the call with 
, improving his opponent's hand into the nut flush. 
and the big blind tossed a pile of 25,000 chips in the middle, putting Stout's tournament at risk with a remaining stack around 130,000. Stout called, showing 