Former Main Event Champ Engel Leads Mix Max Final 35

The Mix Max event attracted 284 players, and after playing down to the money late last night just 35 players remain, with former Aussie Millions Main Event champion Ari Engel in pole position with close to 200,000 in chips.

Engel took home A$1,600,000 for defeating Tony Dunst heads-up back in 2016, and safely made it through to Day 2 along with 2014 WSOP APAC Main Event runner-up Jack Salter, Kenny Hallaert, Aymon Hata, Andreas Klatt and Sarah Bilney who swapped cashing in the shootout for the Mix Max, cashing in her second tournament of the day.

Players who busted out during Day 1 included Usman Siddique, Russell Thomas, Jan Suchanek, Jesse Sylvia, Jack Sinclair, Maria Lampropulos, and Shootout Champion Justin Liberto.

Here's the seating draw for the start of Day 2:

Table	Seat	Name	Chip Count
7	1	Hwan Myeong Park	125,600
	2	Dzmitry Urbanovich	29,700
	3	Alex Lee Lee	102,300
	4	Nariman Yaghami	138,000
	5	Wei Zhu	51,800
	6	Julien Sitbon	4,600
8	1	Sarah Bilney	40,600
	2	Natalia Rosova	56,900
	3	Carter Chen	43,800
	4	David Vinayagamoorthy	92,000
	5	Ari Engel	192,200
	6	Jin Li	77,100
16	2	Fabian Gomz	154,400
	3	Jack Salter	146,500
	4	Mooren Guillaville	43,900
	5	Lee David Thorns	55,800
	6	Enching Wu	45,600
17	1	Timothy Kuok	36,000
	2	Lin Hung Sheng	32,600
	3	Mai Te	118,300
	4	Charlton Hawes	93,400
	5	Adam Smith	33,900
	6	Li Xia Qing	166,200
10	1	Nicholas Pugillo	96,000
	2	Marc Macdonnell	45,100
	3	Casey Kastle	152,300
	4	Frederich Martin	16,000
	5	Brett Whitney	127,600
	6	Kenny Hallaert	84,600
14	1	Josh McCully	61,600
	2	Chao Duan	152,500
	3	Ryan Bownds	89,900
	4	Stephen Sharp	28,500
	5	Andreas Klatt	16,200
	6	Aymon Hata	120,500

Starting out as a full-ring tournament, with 60 players left the tournament was redrawn to six-handed. When play resumes at 2 pm later today, this will continue until just eight players remain.

The remainder of the tournament will be in a heads-up format, with the first four matches being as follows: