Melbourne, Australia. Wednesday 25 January 2017. With a stack of 187,400 in chips, Tony Mladenovski finished atop the final starting day’s leaderboard at the 2017 Aussie Millions Main Event in Crown Casino Melbourne.

He isn’t the player to catch heading into Wednesday’s Day 2 of the Southern Hemisphere’s most prestigious poker tournament. That position belongs to Mustapha Kanit, who bagged up 215,000 on Day 1b.

Day 1c was a day that saw the largest group of competitors take to the felt. A total of 322 players signed up, pushing the total number of entries over 700 again.

After seven levels of action, the final starting flight ended in the very early hours of Wednesday morning at Crown Melbourne. David Peters, Alex Keating, Connor Drinan, Fatima Moreira de Melo and Winfred Yu hit the rail.