Justin Mihalek was third with 284,500 followed by Jospeh Elhade with 282,000 and former MSPT JACK Cleveland Casino champion Abdul Amer rounded out the top five with 249,000. Lynn Rainey took the slow and steady route to second place for the day winding up with 291,500. Napierala pulled off a huge elimination to shoot his chip stack all the way up to 469,500 chips to bag the top stack of the night taking over the overall chip lead for the tournament.
It looked like tonight was going to go out with a whimper but explosions at two of the remaining three tables turned the evening upside down giving Blake Napierala a massive chip lead in Day 1B of the MSPT $300,000 Guaranteed Main Event at Jack Cleveland Casino.