In a whirlwind of action and emotion here in Cleveland, Day 1C turned out to be the wildest flight of them all as Jeremy Chen scored the top chip stack of the night claiming the flight and overall chip lead in the MSPT $300,000 Guaranteed Main Event at Jack Cleveland Casino.

Chen managed to find a way to find cards at the right time including a huge late victory to put away 665,000 chips to lead the flight. Past MSPT event winner Brian Hou finished second scoring 418,000. Also finishing in the top five were three-time WSOP bracelet winner Adam Friedman (374,500), Haddi Qasem (269,000) and Adam Williams (222,000). Other notables advance to Day 2 from the flight were Igor Ioffe (140,500) and Cooper Wanty (129,000).

Some notables who did not find their way out of Day 1C today included WSOP Circuit event winner Kevin Iacofano, past MSPT event winner Ben Wiora, Michael Fempin, John Mingus, Derrick Brown, DJ MacKinnon, Edward Dixon, Santa Zawaideh, Satish Thakur, John Michalak, Justin Lee and Dale Hackney.

The Day 1C flight added another 270 entries taking the final total for the tournament to 596 easily surpassing the $300,000 tournament guarantee. A total of 37 players made it out of tonight’s flight and combined with the 40 players who bagged in the first two flights, 77 players will be back for Day 2. Play will resume on Sunday at 11 AM with 63 players reaching the money.

Congratulations to everyone who advance to Day 2 and we’ll see you on Sunday at 11 AM for final day coverage of the Day 1B of the MSPT $300,000 Guaranteed Main Event at Jack Cleveland Casino!