Twitch and YouTube Sensation Sam "strippin" Thorne Through to Day 2, Former Champs Fall

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Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Day 1b of the 2015 Unibet Open Copenhagen, which was visiting the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel in Denmark for the third time, attracted 236 entries, which with Day 1a's 168 runners brought the total field up to 404 entrants, just slightly less than last year when Frederik Jensen defeated 405 players to grab the DKK 625,000 first-place prize.

The total prize pool this year is DKK 2,908,800, which translates to �389,984. The lion's share will go to the winner who'll receive DKK 620,000 (�83,115), while 45 players will get into the money and guarantee themselves DKK 15,000 (�2,011). The man best positioned to make a deep run from the Day 1b field is Aage Eikeland, who finished the night as chip leader with 260,000.

He's closely followed by Kristo Gavazov (223,600) and Tiago Santos (211,200).

Day 1b saw a lot of familiar faces, though many would fall before the day reached the completion of 10 levels. Well known online player Simon "ministerborg" Ravnsb?k was one of them, and he wouldn't be standing alone on the rail. He would have enough time to catch up with last year's winner Frederik Brink Jensen. The Unibet Open and European Poker Tour champ first folded a straight on a paired board, only to be shown rivered trips turned into a bluff. He then lost the remainder of his stack with sixes to tens.

Unibet Open Cannes 2013 champion Quentin Lecomte would also hit the rail before the end of the day. He got into an iffy spot when he turned top two pair holding ace-queen against a suddenly check-raising player who had limped before the flop. Lecomte called the turn chec- raise and the river shove, only to be shown the flopped set Quentin feared his opponent would have.

Poker reporting veteran Rikard ?berg was also one of the notables we spotted away from the table too early. ?berg had a swingy day, and saw it end with an ill-timed shove with ace-jack suited. The big blind woke up with ace-king and ended ?berg's aspiration of turning pro.

The story of the day was Sam "strippin" Thorne. If you go searching for his HendonMob or online screenname on Unibet, you won't find one. Thorne had never played poker before but was here on an invitation from Unibet because he's quite the popular guy on Twitch, YouTube and Twitter. With hundred of thousands of followers he was the perfect guy to get a new chunk of people interested in poker, and it all worked out perfectly.

He learned poker a day before, played his heart out, and did surprisingly well. He got lucky in the last hand of the day to stay alive, but that could've happen to anyone holding ace-king up against aces. Thorne brought thousands of viewers to the Unibet Open live stream and hundreds of comments to the chat box on the Twitch channel. Thorne will return on Day 2 with 97,500.

The first hurdle to take will be reaching the money on Saturday. With 137 players left and 45 players getting paid, there's quite some work to be done before the organization is going to hand out checks. After the bubble bursts, the quest for the final table will take place. Of course PokerNews.com will be on hand to capture all the action, so please check back then.

Table	Seat	Name	Chips
1	1	Jurica Zovko	130,600
1	2	Mikkel Plum	68,600
1	3	M��t�� M��cs	28,800
1	4	Ullerup Tve Hansen	36,500
1	5	Peter Lindberg Thomadsen	47,900
1	6	Mike Hill	163,300
1	7	Benjamin Toure	56,400
1	8	Postula Jacek	37,400

2	1	Ievgen Zhadan	82,800
2	2	Erik Alberius	34,600
2	3	Stepahne Gard	120,000
2	4	Andreas Johansson	152,900
2	5	Wiktor Szuster	35,800
2	6	Frederik Stromoen	30,500
2	7	Tim Ben Jdidia	172,500
2	8	Erik Martinsen	67,700

3	1	Mikkel Lorentzen	33,800
3	2	Abid Hosseindad	79,300
3	3	Petrescu Bogdan	133,000
3	4	Markus Heikkil?	54,600
3	5	Morten Bren?e	100,100
3	6	Mohanathas Sivagnanam	82,700
3	7	Simen Risan Sievre	171,900
3	8	Johnny Ostbjerg	91,600

4	1	G��bor Bank	101,500
4	2	Jonas Stravad Madsen	119,400
4	3	Davy De Cooman	80,900
4	4	Mikael Johansson	71,400
4	5	Thomas M?ller	114,900
4	6	Xanthopoylos Dimitrios	106,100
4	7	Henrik Hecklen	153,700
4	8	Ayedin Vahedi	105,300

5	1	Robin Nielsen	74,400
5	2	Kasper Kj?r	115,700
5	3	Mudassar Khan	174,100
5	4	Thomas Schulz	67,200
5	5	Nima Musavian	82,700
5	6	Kenny Kousgaard	68,800
5	7	Jorma Vuoksenmaa	16,500
5	8	Ronnie Espensen	54,600

6	1	Pieter Burgers	60,300
6	2	Gornan Florin	132,200
6	3	Kristo Gavazov	223,600
6	4	Mateusz Dziewonski	37,900
6	5	Theis Hennegjette	105,200
6	6	Arne Bj?rsmo	41,900
6	7	Eldar Alvheim Andreassen	70,400
6	8	Mads Oldvig	56,300

7	1	Mads Jensen	73,800
7	2	David Stange	102,900
7	3	Emil Von Buchwald	114,400
7	4	Christian Elgstrom	30,000
7	5	Peter Kolbert	54,500
7	6	Jacob Ohlund	52,000
7	7	Cemil Incegul	63,300
7	8	Wannes Verscheure	73,000

8	1	Henrik Jensen	69,500
8	2	Mathias Orts	142,200
8	3	Zoran Mitic	69,000
8	4	Tapio J��rvinen	97,300
8	5	Turian Ovidiu	44,900
8	6	Alvaras Baranauskas	87,800
8	7	Geir H?vard Hanssen	59,800
8	8	Peter Jaksland	77,700
8	9	Martin Morales	42,100

9	1	Soren Bilsgaard	33,400
9	2	Nikolaj Seydel	105,200
9	3	Samuel Thorne	97,500
9	4	Tiago Samtos	211,200
9	5	Henrik Eriksson	77,900
9	6	Tobias Andersen	98,800
9	7	Lasse Frost	72,000
9	8	Thomas Holm	61,400
9	9	Rob Van Der Heijden	58,200

10	1	Knud Rye Rasmussen	46,400
10	2	Anders Andersen	70,900
10	3	Thomas	44,700
10	4	Sidsel Boesen	93,000
10	5	Henrik Juncker	125,600
10	6	Cristian-Sebastian Cirtog	56,600
10	7	Moreau Jean-Noel	21,000
10	8	Kasper Frohling	72,500
10	9	Wouter Schuurbiers	167,200

11	1	Jonas Esbo Agergaard	41,500
11	2	Jens Lauridsen	119,500
11	3	Bakir Saranovic	116,100
11	4	Jesper Milde Jensen	67,100
11	5	Johan Goslings	69,200
11	6	Jens Eisner	106,800
11	7	Joachim Dahl Andersen	57,900
11	8	Morten Svierke	29,800
11	9	Tim Van Meene	20,900

12	1	Isi Nadelmann	90,300
12	2	David Hefner	77,600
12	3	Trond Tj?ntveit	154,700
12	4	Danny Neess	154,700
12	5	Stefan Kaffay	15,000
12	6	Kurt Maertens	128,900
12	7	Lasse Degnemark	34,200
12	8	Daniel Skytte Bastrup Elul	44,200
12	9	Magnus Svensson	58,600

13	1	Marten Jacobsen	77,600
13	2	Anssi Kittila	42,700
13	3	Paulo Rodriguez	80,100
13	4	Claus Rejnholdt Carlsen	123,500
13	5	Thomas Andersson	112,300
13	6	Francois Dur	106,000
13	7	Jouny Hanna	203,000
13	8	Ville Jantunen	190,700
13	9	Anders Josefsson	90,300

14	1	Rasmus Langevang	72,800
14	2	Krasimir Marinov	20,800
14	3	Helge Rahbek	54,200
14	4	Donatas Matuza	93,900
14	5	Sandra Hendriksen	54,900
14	6	Frank Gessgy	43,400
14	7	Michael M?llgaard	197,500
14	8	Benjamin Westergaard	200,000
14	9	Mads Smith Hansen	58,000

15	1	Philippe Frederic	26,300
15	2	Gholan Olesen	128,600
15	3	Casper Nordby Petersson	79,700
15	4	Carsten Vestbjerg	40,000
15	5	Andreas Nilsson	43,400
15	6	Aage Eikeland	260,000
15	7	Tommy Nord	96,300
15	8	Johan Espholm	145,200
15	9	Oliver Hede	87,500

16	1	Rasmus Agerskov	163,600
16	2	Daniel Chutrov	63,000
16	3	Lasse Syndergaard	31,600
16	4	Eamon Mcnamee	42,000
16	5	Cystein Sannes	74,400
16	6	Vytautas Kacerauskas	134,700
16	7	Nickolas Storm	44,400
16	8	Stig Farholi	152,500
16	9	Henrik Jeppsson	66,200