Eight hours after this week's blog started,Alex Foxen has taken down The High Roller Big Game for $71,925 by defeating Timothy Adams heads-up but Day 1b of the Irish Open Main Event is still going with 252 players left in a field of 804 entries.

More than half still needs to get eliminated as 121 players will make it through to Day 2 on Monday, April 5 so they still have a long road ahead of them.

Marc Macdonnell is sitting nicely in the top spot right now. He is joined in the top five by Luke Geater, Preben Stokkan, Foxen, and Vitalii Pankov.

Other familiar names in the current top twenty include Laszlo Molnar, Cristian Sampaoli, Rafael Moraes, Daniel Smyth, Juan Pardo Dominguez, Nick Maimone, and Stoyan Obreshkov.

Come back to PokerNews tomorrow to read who claimed the Day 1b chip lead in the end as the Sunday live updates blog comes to an end. Join us again next week for another Sunday on partypoker!