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Live Updates April 4
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Shirley Ang
Shirley Ang
Marc MacDonnell
Marc MacDonnell

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!

Alex Foxen Wins The High Roller Big Game for $71,925

Shirley Ang
Shirley Ang
Alex Foxen
Alex Foxen

Timothy Adams shoved for around 6 big blinds from the button and Alex Foxen made the call with the bigger stack.

Timothy Adams: {q-Spades}{4-Clubs}
Alex Foxen: {a-Spades}{k-Diamonds}

The board ran out {j-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{a-Diamonds} for Adams to turn the gutshot to a straight but for Foxen to stay ahead and even river top pair to claim the win.

Foxen walks away with this week's win for $71,925.

The High Roller Big Game Final Table Results April 4

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1Alex FoxenUnited States$71,925
2Timothy AdamsCanada$51,555
3Benjamin RolleAustria$36,870
4Barry HutterUnited States$26,250
5Mark RadojaCanada$19,500
6Niklas AstedtSweden$15,000
7Christopher PuetzAustria$12,750
8Adrian MateosSpain$10,650
9Sami KelopuroFinland$9,000

Improve Your Poker Skills for FREE with MyGame Whiz at partypoker

Shirley Ang
Shirley Ang

Players seeking free study tools will be pleased to learn that partypoker recently launched the revolutionary MyGame Whiz to its poker client.

MyGame Whiz acts as a personal poker coach by analyzing cash game, tournament, and SPINS hands at partypoker using Game Theory Optimal (GTO) strategy.

The motto shown by partypoker Ambassador Kevin Hart below explains it all: "Become the poker player you were born to be."

Read on to learn more about MyGame Whiz at partypoker

Registration Closed for Day 1b of the Irish Open Main Event

Shirley Ang
Shirley Ang
partypoker Irish Open
partypoker Irish Open

The late registration and reentry period of Day 1b of the Irish Open Main Event has just closed with 804 entries to add €802,000 to the €822,000 which had already been collected on Day 1a.

This means that the original €1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool has been crushed as €1,626,000 has been brought in already with a turbo flight still to take place on Monday at 2:05 p.m. GMT.

More than half of the field is still left in the tournament with the day slated to end when there are 121 players left.

Andrei Kozlenko is in pole position right now, followed by Marc Macdonnell, Daniel Smiljkovic, Mark Doyle, and Carlos Chadha-Villamarin in the top five.

Win Up To $500 Extra With partypoker's Hot Tables

Shirley Ang
Shirley Ang
partypoker Hot Tables
partypoker Hot Tables

There is a brand new promotion to get involved with over at partypoker that goes by the name of Hot Tables. This promotion makes it possible to win up to $500 extra from pots whenever you play cash games or fastforward poker.

There is no opting in required for the Hot Tables promotion, you simply head to no-limit hold’em or pot-limit Omaha cash and fastforward tables with stakes between $0.05/$0.10 and $0.50/$1.

Thousands of tables are randomly selected each day to become Hot Tables for a hand. partypoker adds between one and 500 big blinds to the pot which the winner of the hand takes away with them in addition to the pot. This means it is possible to win up to $500 extra if you are a $0.50/$1 player.

Learn how to join the Hot Tables on partypoker

Higgins Bubbles The High Roller Big Game Final Table

Shirley Ang
Shirley Ang

Simon Higgins had gotten his last chips in from the small blind and was looked up by Barry Hutter in the big blind with the bigger stack.

Simon Higgins: {k-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}
Barry Hutter: {j-Hearts}{8-Hearts}

The board read {j-Spades}{4-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{9-Hearts} by the time all the cards had been dealt for Hutter to flop top pair to burst another bubble, this time for the final table.

The High Roller Big Game Final Table April 4
The High Roller Big Game Final Table April 4

Coleman Bubbles The High Roller Big Game

Shirley Ang
Shirley Ang
The High Roller Big Game April 4 Bubble
The High Roller Big Game April 4 Bubble

David Coleman had shoved from the cutoff and was looked up by Barry Hutter on the button with the bigger stack while the rest folded.

David Coleman: {a-Diamonds}{k-Hearts}
Barry Hutter: {k-Clubs}{k-Diamonds}

The board ran out {5-Spades}{q-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{9-Clubs} to not help Coleman as he bubbled with the rest of the field securing at least $6,000 for themselves.

Isaac Haxton and Patrick Leonard Make Top Ten After Irish Open Online Day 1a

Shirley Ang
Shirley Ang
Isaac Haxton
Isaac Haxton

For the second straight year, the Irish Open will be taking place online at partypoker on March 26 to April 7 instead of its usual home in Dublin.

The highlight of the festival is easily the €1 million guaranteed Irish Open €1,100 Main Event, which kicked off the first of its three opening flights on March 28 with the other two to take place on April 4 and April 5.

The huge seven-figure guarantee is merely a placeholder as yesterday alone attracted 822 entrants which generated €822,000 towards the eventual final prize pool.

Now it is just a matter of whether this year's Main Event beats last year's event which generated a massive prize pool of €2,945,000 with 2,945 entrants getting into the action. Pablo Silva shipped the 2020 Irish Open Main Event for a whopping €462,100 after besting Hungarian online superstar Andras Nemeth (second - €325,423) in heads-up play.

2021 partypoker Irish Open Main Event Day 1a Leaderboard

PlacePlayerCountryChipsBig Blinds
1Artsiom ProstakBelarus5,749,839192
2Justin OuimetteCanada4,560,575152
3Morten Landberg PedersenDenmark4,506,934150
4Viktor ZsemlyeAustria4,410,026147
5Isaac HaxtonCanada4,203,053140
6Alexandru BucurUnited Kingdom3,694,932123
7Jan StreicherGermany3,656,367122
8Patrick LeonardUnited Kingdom3,435,635115
9Claas StoobAustria3,397,487113
10Alexandru BaronCanada3,139,691105

Read on to find out more

How to Play Private Poker Games Online on partypoker

Shirley Ang
Shirley Ang
Club Games
Club Games

Are you looking for the best mobile app to play private poker games online with your friends, family, and colleagues? Check out partypoker's private poker games club function that lets you invite others to come and play with you.

While playing online poker with friends has been all the rage, organising private poker games online has been nearly impossible if you wanted to play poker on a mobile device.

That's what makes the new partypoker option different and, at least in this very specific aspect, partypoker's Club Games the best app to organize private poker games online.

Learn how to set up your private poker game on partypoker

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