2009 World Series of Poker results

The 2009 World Series of Poker was the 40th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). Held in Las Vegas at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, the 2009 series began on May 27 and featured 57 poker championships in several variants. All events but the $10,000 World Championship No Limit Texas hold 'em Main Event, the most prestigious of the WSOP events, ended by July 15. The final table of the Main Event, known as the November Nine, was suspended until November, to allow for better television coverage.^[1] Following the WSOP custom since 1976, each of the event winners received a championship bracelet in addition to that event's prize money, which this year ranged from US$87,778 for the $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em to US$8,546,435 for the Main Event.

WSOP game variants

Most of the tournaments played at the WSOP are variants of Texas Hold 'em. Hold 'em is a community card game where each player may use any combination of the five community cards and the player's own two hole cards to make a poker hand, in contrast to poker variants such as stud or draw in which each player holds a separate individual hand. Between 2000 and 2009, hold'em surpassed seven-card stud as the most common game in U.S. casinos.^[2] Seven-card stud is a poker variant wherein each player is dealt two hole cards and one face-up to start the hand, followed by three more face-up cards one at a time, and then another hidden card, with betting after each round. Another poker variant played is Omaha, a game in which each player is dealt four hole cards and must use exactly two of them in conjunction with three community cards to make the best possible five-card hand. Other games played at the 2008 tournament included Razz, HORSE, and Deuce-to-Seven.

Within each of these poker variants a myriad of options exist. For example, depending on the betting structure, a tournament might be described as no limit, limit or pot-limit. Games may also include other variations on the rules governing the execution of the specific game such as shootout, eight or better, or heads up.

2009 highlights

There were 57 events, two more than in 2008. The main event had 6,494 buy-ins, 350 fewer than the previous year. Other changes for 2009 include the elimination of rebuy events and the introduction of triple starting chips.^[3]

In recognition that 2009 was the 40th WSOP, the tournament started with a special $40,000 No-Limit event. As one of the most expensive poker tournaments ever, the event attracted what considered to be one of the toughest poker fields ever assembled.^[4] Poker pro, Vitaly Lunkin, won his second bracelet in this event. Lunkin then finished in second place at the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha event and the $50,000 HORSE Championship, finishing the summer with over $2.7 million.^[4] David Bach, a player with several final table appearances, won his first bracelet in the $50,000 HORSE Championship. At 18 hours and 44 minutes the final table of the $50K HORSE event was the second longest final table in WSOP history.

Jeff Lisandro became the fifth player to ever win three bracelets in the same year, and the first ever to win bracelets in all three stud variants offered at the WSOP (stud high-only, stud high-low, and Razz) in the same year. Poker superstar Barry Greenstein, said that "A lot of people might have said before this year, we may not ever see another guy win three bracelets because the fields are so big... Lisandro proved them wrong."^[4] He was the first player to do so since Phil Ivey did it in 2002. By winning two bracelets, Ivey, considered by many to be the best overall poker player in the world,^[4] became the youngest player to ever amass seven WSOP bracelets. The milestone means he is tied with Poker Hall of Famer Billy Baxter at sixth place on the most bracelets list.

Due to capacity limitations, the 2009 WSOP turned away over 500 players from the Main Event. Patrik Antonius, T.J. Cloutier, Layne Flack, Ted Forrest, Brandon Adams, Richard Ashby, and Mickey Appleman were among the notable players turned away from the Main Event. 1996 WSOP champion Huck Seed would have been included in that list, if he had not won the National Heads-Up Poker Championship which meant he was guaranteed entry into the 2009 WSOP Main Event.^[5]

Another tournament which met its capacity limits was the "$1,000 buy-in Stimulus Special." This event set a new record for a non-main event tournament with 6,012 participants.^[6][7]

Results

Key

*	Elected to the Poker Hall of Fame
(#/#)	This denotes a bracelet winner. The first number is the number of bracelets won in 2009. The second number is the total number of bracelets won. Both numbers represent totals as of that point during the tournament.
Place	The place in which the player finished.
Name	The player who made it to the final table
Prize ($)	The amount of money, in U.S. Dollars ($), awarded for each finish at the event's final table

Event 1: $500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold'em 2-Day Event: Wednesday, May 27 to Thursday, May 28 Number of buy-ins: 866 Total prize pool: $389,700 Number of payouts: 81 Winning hand: 6♣ 6♥ Reference:[8]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Andrew Cohen (1/1) $83,778 2nd Paul McPeterson $51,787 3rd Casey Kuhn $33,923 4th Grant Yasui $23,483 5th Jun Dulay $17,127 6th Bobby Rooney $13,125 7th John McAvoy $10,545 8th Ferdinand Boleski $8,866 9th Sammy Porter $7,782

Event 2: $40,000 No Limit Hold'em 4-Day Event: Thursday, May 28 to Sunday, May 31 Number of buy-ins: 201 Total prize pool: $7,718,400^[a] Number of payouts: 27 Winning hand: A♠ A♥ Reference:[9]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Vitaly Lunkin (1/2) $1,891,012 2nd Isaac Haxton $1,168,566 3rd Greg Raymer (0/1) $774,927 4th Dani Stern $548,315 5th Justin Bonomo $413,166 6th Alec Torelli $329,730 7th Lex Veldhuis $277,940 8th Noah Schwartz $246,834 9th Ted Forrest (0/5) $230,317

Event 3: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better 3-Day Event: Friday, May 29 to Sunday, May 31 Number of buy-ins: 918^[b] Total prize pool: $1,253,070 Number of payouts: 90 Winning hand: Q♣ 9♦ 8♣ 7♦ Reference:[10]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Thang Luu (1/2) $263,135 2nd Ed Smith $162,110 3rd Ming Reslock $106,373 4th Robert Price $73,405 5th Pascal Leyo $53,293 6th Jordan Rich $40,612 7th Jim Geary $32,404 8th Freddy Deeb (0/2) $27,029 9th Senovio Ramirez III $23,520

Event 4: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em 5-Day Event: Saturday, May 30 to Wednesday, June 3^[c] Number of buy-ins: 6,012^[d] Total prize pool: $5,410,800 Number of payouts: 621 Winning hand: K♠ K♥ Reference:[11]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Steve Sung (1/1) $771,106 2nd Peter Vilandos (0/1) $473,283 3rd James Matz $313,826 4th Larry Sidebotham $227,254 5th Nathan Mullen $175,851 6th Dan Heimiller (0/1) $145,009 7th Jeff Oakes $126,613 8th Phong Huynh $117,414 9th Danny Fuhs $114,168

Event 5: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha 3-Day Event: Monday, June 1 to Wednesday, June 3 Number of buy-ins: 809 Total prize pool: $1,042,085 Number of payouts: 81 Winning hand: Q♣ J♦ 8♦ 2♠ Reference:[12]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Jason Mercier (1/1) $237,415 2nd Steven Burkholder $146,748 3rd Kevin Iacofano $96,128 4th Matt Giannetti $66,544 5th Chris Biondino $48,533 6th Jonathan Tare $37,192 7th Dario Alioto (0/1) $29,882 8th An Tran (0/1) $25,122 9th Vic Park $22,053

Event 6: $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud 3-Day Event: Monday, June 1 to Wednesday, June 3 Number of buy-ins: 142 Total prize pool: $1,134,800 Number of payouts: 16 Winning hand: 8♦ 8♥ 4♥ 9♥ 3♦ J♥ 2♥ Reference:[13]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Freddie Ellis (1/1) $373,744 2nd Eric Drache $231,014 3rd Ville Wahlbeck $152,915 4th Max Pescatori (0/2) $107,959 5th Hasan Habib (0/1) $80,969 6th Ivan Schertzer $64,297 7th Greg Mueller $53,886 8th Tim Phan $47,532

Event 7: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Tuesday, June 2 to Thursday, June 4 Number of buy-ins: 2,791 Total prize pool: $3,809,715 Number of payouts: 297 Winning hand: A♦ Q♠ Reference:[14]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Travis Johnson (1/1) $666,853 2nd Steve Karp $414,116 3rd Michael Ciotola $273,385 4th Mark Salinaro $193,343 5th Craig McConville $145,721 6th Brian McInnis $116,234 7th Walter Wright $97,985 8th James McClain $87,013 9th Kam Low $81,185

Event 8: $2,500 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball 3-Day Event: Tuesday, June 2 to Thursday, June 4 Number of buy-ins: 147 Total prize pool: $338,100 Number of payouts: 21 Winning hand: 7♣ 6♦ 5♥ 4♥ 2♠ Reference:[15]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Phil Ivey (1/6) $96,361 2nd John Monnette $59,587 3rd Yan Chen $38,892 4th Eric Kesselman (0/1) $26,757 5th Rodeen Talebi $19,346 6th Raphael Zimmerman $14,663 7th Elia Ahmadian $11,627

Event 9: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Short Handed 3-Day Event: Wednesday, June 3 to Friday, June 5 Number of buy-ins: 1,459 Total prize pool: $1,991,535 Number of payouts: 144 Winning hand: K♠ Q♦ Reference:[16]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Ken Aldridge (1/1) $428,259 2nd Carman Cavella $264,814 3rd Peter Gould $170,953 4th Bryce Yockey $115,230 5th Charles Furey $80,896 6th Manny Minaya $59,049

Event 10: $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em/Omaha 3-Day Event: Wednesday, June 3 to Friday, June 5 Number of buy-ins: 453 Total prize pool: $1,041,900 Number of payouts: 45 Winning hand: 9♣ 9♠ Reference:[17]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Rami Boukai (1/1) $244,862 2nd Najib Bennani $151,335 3rd Ben Grundy $99,574 4th Cornel Cimpan $69,546 5th Daniel Makowsky $51,313 6th Paul Parker $39,904 7th Pawel Andrzejewski $32,653 8th John Kabbaj $28,006 9th Sigi Stockinger $25,151

Event 11: $2,000 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Thursday, June 4 to Saturday, June 6 Number of buy-ins: 1,646 Total prize pool: $2,995,720 Number of payouts: 171 Winning hand: Q♠ 10♦ Reference:[18]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Anthony Harb (1/1) $569,199 2nd Peter Rho $350,019 3rd Jim Geary $230,670 4th Adam Adler $161,768 5th Jonathan McGowan $116,833 6th Adrian Dresel-Velasquez $92,867 7th Scott Hall $76,390 8th Michael Dyer $65,905 9th Brent Sheirbon $59,315

Event 12: $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event 3-Day Event: Thursday, June 4 to Saturday, June 6 Number of buy-ins: 194 Total prize pool: $1,823,600 Number of payouts: 24 Winning hand: A♦ Q♦ 8♦ 8♠ (Omaha-8) Reference:[19]

Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Ville Wahlbeck (1/1) $492,375 2nd David Chiu (0/4) $304,176 3rd Scott Dorin $199,940 4th Mark Gregorich $139,159 5th Huck Seed (0/4) $102,286 6th James Van Alstyne $79,181 7th Mike Wattel (0/1) $64,373 8th Todd Brunson (0/1) $54,854

Event 13: $2,500 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Friday, June 5 to Sunday, June 7 Number of buy-ins: 1,088 Total prize pool: $2,502,400 Number of payouts: 117 Winning hand: J♠ J♣ Reference:[20]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Keven Stammen (1/1) $506,786 2nd Ángel Guillén $312,800 3rd Shawn Glines $202,694 4th Bahador Ahmadi $139,934 5th Torrey Reily $100,446 6th Antoine Berube $75,547 7th Oktay Altinbas $59,356 8th Matthew Lynn $48,621 9th Gregg Merkow $41,439

Event 14: $2,500 Limit Hold'em Short Handed 3-Day Event: Friday, June 5 to Sunday, June 7 Number of buy-ins: 367 Total prize pool: $844,100 Number of payouts: 36 Winning hand: A♦ J♠ Reference:[21]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Brock Parker (1/1) $223,688 2nd Daniel Negreanu (0/4) $138,280 3rd Tommi Hörkkö $89,660 4th Kevin Hong $60,885 5th Barry Shulman (0/1) $43,201 6th Kyle Ray $31,966

Event 15: $5,000 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Saturday, June 6 to Monday, June 8 Number of buy-ins: 655 Total prize pool: $3,078,500 Number of payouts: 63 Winning hand: A♦ 8♣ Reference:[22]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Brian Lemke (1/1) $692,658 2nd Fabian Quoss $427,912 3rd Thomas Keller (0/1) $280,852 4th Mike Sowers $194,931 5th Lika Gerasimova $142,688 6th Danny Illingworth $109,872 7th Isaac Baron $88,784 8th Billy Kopp $75,115 9th Christian Iacobellis $66,403

Event 16: $1,500 Seven Card Stud 3-Day Event: Saturday, June 6 to Monday, June 8 Number of buy-ins: 359 Total prize pool: $490,035 Number of payouts: 40 Winning hand: A♦ K♦ 5♦ K♠ 10♦ 8♦ 6♥ Reference:[23]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Jeff Lisandro (1/2) $124,959 2nd Rodney H. Pardey (0/2) $77,230 3rd Steven Stencil $50,626 4th Nick Frangos $35,087 5th John Juanda (0/4) $25,634 6th Eric Pardey $19,690 7th Daniel Studer $15,862 8th Mitch Schock $13,373

Event 17: $1,000 Ladies No Limit Hold'em World Championship 3-Day Event: Sunday, June 7 to Tuesday, June 9 Number of buy-ins: 1,060 Total prize pool: $964,600 Number of payouts: 117 Winning hand: Q♠ 8♠ Reference:[24]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Lisa Hamilton (1/1) $195,390 2nd Lori Bender $120,575 3rd Mari Lou Morelli $78,132 4th Angel Pedroza $53,940 5th Kimberly Cunningham $38,719 6th Kim Rios $29,121 7th Lisa Parsons $22,880 8th Dawn Thomas $18,742 9th Lisa Santy $15,973

Event 18: $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better 3-Day Event: Sunday, June 7 to Tuesday, June 9 Number of buy-ins: 179 Total prize pool: $1,682,600 Number of payouts: 18 Winning hand: A♦ K♣ K♥ 4♣ Reference:[25]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Daniel Alaei (1/2) $445,898 2nd Scott Clements (0/2) $275,946 3rd Ben Boyd $182,730 4th Daniel Negreanu (0/4) $130,401 5th John Monnette $97,422 6th Greg Jamison $77,736 7th Tom Koral $65,453 8th Annie Duke (0/1) $58,049 9th Yueqi Zhu $54,179

Event 19: $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Short Handed 3-Day Event: Monday, June 8 to Wednesday, June 10 Number of buy-ins: 1,068 Total prize pool: $2,456,400 Number of payouts: 108 Winning hand: Q♠ Q♦ Reference:[26]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Brock Parker (2/2) $552,745 2nd Joe Serock $341,783 3rd Russell Crane $220,633 4th Jesse Rios $148,661 5th Alexander Wilson $104,323 6th Clayton Newman $76,123

Event 20: $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Tuesday, June 9 to Thursday, June 11 Number of buy-ins: 633 Total prize pool: $864,045 Number of payouts: 63 Winning hand: A♠ Q♥ Reference:[27]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st J.P. Kelly (1/1) $194,434 2nd Marc Tschirch $120,102 3rd Jason DeWitt $78,826 4th Kyle Carlston $54,711 5th Aaron Virchis $40,048 6th Kirk Steward $30,837 7th Erik Seidel (0/8) $24,919 8th Andrew Radel $21,082 9th Ravi Raghavan $18,637

Event 21: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. 3-Day Event: Tuesday, June 9 to Thursday, June 11 Number of buy-ins: 452 Total prize pool: $1,247,520 Number of payouts: 48 Winning hand: 6♥ 6♠ (Hold'em) Reference:[28]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Zac Fellows (1/1) $311,899 2nd James Van Alstyne $192,866 3rd Tim Finne $126,199 4th Michele Limongi $87,264 5th Chris Amaral $63,536 6th Martin Eikeng $48,590 7th Gabriel Nassif $38,947 8th Matt Hawrilenko (1/1) $32,647

Event 22: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout 3-Day Event: Wednesday, June 10 to Friday, June 12 Number of buy-ins: 1,000 Total prize pool: $1,363,635 Number of payouts: 100 Winning hand: K♣ 5♦ Reference:[29]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Jeff Carris (1/1) $313,673 2nd Jason Somerville $194,004 3rd Andrew Margolis $124,158 4th Christopher Moore $82,322 5th Joseph Cutler $56,440 6th Brandon Wong $39,968 7th Eugene Katchalov $29,195 8th Michael McNeil $21,981 9th Joshua Tieman $17,045 10th Mike Shannon $13,609

Event 23: $10,000 World Championship No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball 3-Day Event: Wednesday, June 10 to Friday, June 12 Number of buy-ins: 96 Total prize pool: $902,400 Number of payouts: 14 Winning hand: 7-5-4-3-2 Reference:[30]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Nick Schulman (1/1) $279,742 2nd Ville Wahlbeck (1/1) $172,864 3rd Steve Sung (1/1) $112,042 4th John Juanda (0/4) $75,964 5th Archie Karas $53,783 6th Vince Musso $39,697 7th David Benyamine (0/1) $30,492

Event 24: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Thursday, June 11 to Saturday, June 13 Number of buy-ins: 2,506 Total prize pool: $3,420,690 Number of payouts: 270 Winning hand: A♥ 5♣ Reference:[31]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Peter Vilandos (1/2) $607,256 2nd Andy Seth $372,855 3rd Michael Greco $248,855 4th Glenn McCaffrey $176,165 5th Dean Hamrick $132,380 6th Alan Jaffray $105,699 7th David Lerman $88,937 8th Ronnie Kevin $79,017 9th Brian Fitzpatrick $73,886

Event 25: $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better 3-Day Event: Thursday, June 11 to Saturday, June 13 Number of buy-ins: 376 Total prize pool: $864,800 Number of payouts: 40 Winning hand: Q♦ Q♠ 3♣ 5♣ 8♠ 7♣ Q♣ Reference:[32]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Phil Ivey (2/7) $220,538 2nd Ming Lee $136,292 3rd Carlos Mortensen (0/2) $89,342 4th Dutch Boyd (0/1) $61,919 5th Jon Turner $45,237 6th Eric Buchman $34,747 7th Tom Koral $27,993 8th Peter Gelencser $23,600

Event 26: $1,500 Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Friday, June 12 to Sunday, June 14 Number of buy-ins: 643 Total prize pool: $877,695 Number of payouts: 63 Winning hand: A♠ 4♣ Reference:[33]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Tomas Alenius (1/1) $197,488 2nd Jason Tam $122,000 3rd Al Barbieri $80,072 4th Glenn Engelbert $55,576 5th Demetrios Arvanetes $40,681 6th Dominik Kulicki $31,325 7th Rep Porter (0/1) $25,313 8th Kim-Phong Duong $21,416 9th Cole Miller $18,932

Event 27: $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better 3-Day Event: Friday, June 12 to Sunday, June 14 Number of buy-ins: 198 Total prize pool: $930,600 Number of payouts: 18 Winning hand: A♦ Q♣ 8♦ 4♥ Reference:[34]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Roland De Wolfe (1/1) $246,616 2nd Brett Richey $152,618 3rd Scott Clements (0/2) $101,063 4th Robert Campbell $72,121 5th Alex Kravchenko (0/1) $53,881 6th Andrew Black $42,993 7th John Racener $36,200 8th Armando Ruiz $32,105 9th Anthony Lellouche $29,965

Event 28: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Saturday, June 13 to Monday, June 15 Number of buy-ins: 2,638 Total prize pool: $3,600,870 Number of payouts: 270 Winning hand: 8♥ 7♦ Reference:[35]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Mike Eise (1/1) $639,331 2nd Jeff Chang $392,494 3rd Rico Ramirez $261,963 4th Jason Potter $185,444 5th Barry Berger $139,353 6th Zack Fritz $111,266 7th Avi Braz $93,622 8th Jose Luis Franco $83,180 9th Mike Zulker $77,778

Event 29: $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No Limit Hold'em 4-Day Event: Saturday, June 13 to Tuesday, June 16 Number of buy-ins: 256 Total prize pool: $2,406,400 Number of payouts: 32 Winning hand: 5♥ 3♥ Reference:[36]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Leo Wolpert (1/1) $625,682 2nd John Duthie $386,636 SF Jamin Stokes $214,289 SF Nathan Doudney $214,289 QF Johnny Chan* (0/10) $92,580 QF Dustin Woolf $92,580 QF Steve O'Dwyer $92,580 QF Bryan Pellegrino $92,580

Event 30: $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha 3-Day Event: Sunday, June 14 to Tuesday, June 16 Number of buy-ins: 436 Total prize pool: $1,002,800 Number of payouts: 45 Winning hand: K♠ Q♥ 8♣ 8♥ Reference:[37]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st J.C. Tran (1/2) $235,685 2nd Jeff Kimber $145,656 3rd Jean-Philippe Leandri $95,837 4th Ross Boatman $66,936 5th Dallas Flowers $49,387 6th Rami Boukai (1/1) $38,407 7th Chad Layne $31,427 8th Theo Jorgensen (0/1) $26,955 9th John Juanda (0/4) $24,207

Event 31: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. 3-Day Event: Sunday, June 14 to Tuesday, June 16 Number of buy-ins: 770 Total prize pool: $1,051,050 Number of payouts: 72 Winning hand: 7♠ 6♦ 10♣ 5♥ Q♦ 10♥ 4♦ (Stud) Reference:[38]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st James Van Alstyne (1/1) $247,033 2nd Tad Jurgens $152,654 3rd Mitch Schock $100,165 4th Bryan Micon $69,505 5th Shannon Shorr $50,881 6th Brian Malcolm $39,183 7th Fabrice Soulier $31,657 8th Ron Schiffman $26,780

Event 32: $2,000 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Monday, June 15 to Wednesday, June 17 Number of buy-ins: 1,534 Total prize pool: $2,791,880 Number of payouts: 171 Winning hand: 3♠ 3♦ Reference:[39]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Ángel Guillén (1/1) $530,548 2nd Mika Paasonen $326,000 3rd Jason Boyes $214,000 4th Steve Kohner $150,000 5th Eric Ladny $108,883 6th Daniel Makowsky $86,548 7th Chris MacNeil $71,192 8th Antoine Amourette $61,421 9th Clark Hamagami $55,279

Event 33: $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Monday, June 15 to Wednesday, June 17 Number of buy-ins: 185 Total prize pool: $1,739,000 Number of payouts: 18 Winning hand: 5♠ 5♦ Reference:[40]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Greg Mueller (1/1) $460,836 2nd Pat Pezzin $285,196 3rd Chad Brown $188,855 4th Daniel Alaei (1/2) $134,733 5th Matt Hawrilenko (1/1) $100,688 6th Matt Glantz $80,342 7th Michiel Brummelhuis $67,647 8th Soheil Shamseddin $59,996 9th Kenny Hsiung $55,996

Event 34: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Tuesday, June 16 to Thursday, June 18 Number of buy-ins: 2,095 Total prize pool: $2,859,675 Number of payouts: 216 Winning hand: 10♣ 10♥ Reference:[41]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Eric Baldwin (1/1) $521,932 2nd Jonas Klausen $322,371 3rd James Taylor $213,046 4th Benjamin Scholl $150,133 5th Roland De Wolfe (1/1) $112,957 6th Andrew Youngblood $89,222 7th Steven Bradbury $74,352 8th Martin Jacobson $65,487 9th Eric DeFontes $60,335

Event 35: $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha 3-Day Event: Wednesday, June 17 to Friday, June 19 Number of buy-ins: 363 Total prize pool: $1,706,100 Number of payouts: 36 Winning hand: Q♥ J♠ 8♣ 5♣ Reference:[42]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Richard Austin (1/1) $409,484 2nd Sorel Mizzi $253,048 3rd Cliff Josephy (0/1) $166,771 4th Dan Hindin $116,748 5th Rifat Palevic $86,516 6th Felipe Ramos $67,663 7th Van Marcus $55,687 8th Peter Jetten $48,112 9th Samuel Ngai $43,539

Event 36: $2,000 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Thursday, June 18 to Saturday, June 20 Number of buy-ins: 1,695 Total prize pool: $3,084,900 Number of payouts: 171 Winning hand: 9♦ 7♦ Reference:[43]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Jordan Smith (1/1) $586,212 2nd Ken Lennaárd $360,439 3rd Laurence Grondin $237,537 4th Joe Morneau $166,584 5th Anthony Roux $120,311 6th Pat Atchison $95,631 7th Almira Skripchenko $78,664 8th Andrew Seden $67,867 9th Jonathan Plens $61,081

Event 37: $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better 3-Day Event: Thursday, June 18 to Saturday, June 20 Number of buy-ins: 164 Total prize pool: $1,541,600 Number of payouts: 16 Winning hand: 2♠ 6♦ 6♠ 10♣ 10♥ K♥ 5♥ Reference:[44]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Jeff Lisandro (2/3) $431,656 2nd Farzad Rouhani (0/1) $266,804 3rd Mike Wattel (0/1) $176,605 4th Frank Mariani $124,684 5th Yan Chen $93,513 6th Abe Mosseri $74,258 7th Doyle Brunson* (0/10) $62,234 8th Justin Smith $54,896

Event 38: $2,000 Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Friday, June 19 to Sunday, June 21 Number of buy-ins: 446 Total prize pool: $811,720 Number of payouts: 45 Winning hand: Q♣ 8♠ Reference:[45]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Marc Naalden (1/1) $190,770 2nd Steven Cowley $117,902 3rd Ian Johns (0/1) $77,576 4th Tommy Hang $54,182 5th Alex Keating $39,977 6th Danny Qutami $31,088 7th Jared O'Dell $25,439 8th Jameson Painter $21,819 9th Rep Porter (0/1) $19,594

Event 39: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Saturday, June 20 to Monday, June 22 Number of buy-ins: 2,715 Total prize pool: $3,705,975 Number of payouts: 280 Winning hand: Q♥ J♦ Reference:[46]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Ray Foley (1/1) $657,969 2nd Brandon Cantu (0/1) $403,951 3rd Wei Mu $269,609 4th Alex Jacob $190,857 5th Tyler Spalding $143,421 6th Jonathan Markham $114,514 7th Chairud Vangchailued $96,355 8th Richard Lutes $85,608 9th Patrick O'Connor $80,049

Event 40: $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha 3-Day Event: Saturday, June 20 to Monday, June 22 Number of buy-ins: 295 Total prize pool: $2,773,000 Number of payouts: 27 Winning hand: 10♣ 10♥ 6♣ 5♠ Reference:[47]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Matt Graham (1/2) $679,379 2nd Vitaly Lunkin (1/2) $419,832 3rd Van Marcus $278,409 4th Robin Keston $196,994 5th Ferit Gabriellson $148,439 6th Stefan Mattsson $118,463 7th Josh Arieh (0/2) $99,856 8th Richard Austin (1/1) $88,681 9th Barry Greenstein (0/3) $82,746

Event 41: $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout 3-Day Event: Sunday, June 21 to Tuesday, June 23 Number of buy-ins: 280 Total prize pool: $1,316,000 Number of payouts: 30 Winning hand: A♠ K♦ Reference:[48]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Peter Traply (1/1) $348,728 2nd Andrew Lichtenberger $215,403 3rd Maxim Lykov $145,063 4th Danny Wong $105,609 5th Nasr El Nasr $82,697

Event 42: $2,500 Mixed Event 3-Day Event: Sunday, June 21 to Tuesday, June 23 Number of buy-ins: 412 Total prize pool: $947,600 Number of payouts: 40 Winning hand: 6♣ 5♠ (Hold'em) Reference:[49]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Jerrod Ankenman (1/1) $241,637 2nd Sergey Altbregin $149,342 3rd Chris Klodnicki $97,897 4th Jeff Tims $67,848 5th Jon Turner $49,569 6th Eric Crain $38,075 7th Layne Flack (0/6) $30,674 8th Dario Alioto (0/1) $25,860

Event 43: $1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold'em World Championship 3-Day Event: Monday, June 22 to Wednesday, June 24 Number of buy-ins: 2,707 Total prize pool: $2,463,370 Number of payouts: 270 Winning hand: A♠ 9♦ Reference:[50]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Michael Davis (1/1) $437,358 2nd Scott Buller $268,507 3rd Barry Bounds $179,210 4th Michael Morusty $126,863 5th Charles Simon $95,332 6th Dan DeLatorre $76,118 7th Art Duncan $64,047 8th Richard McCall $56,903 9th Robert Beck $53,208

Event 44: $2,500 Razz 3-Day Event: Monday, June 22 to Wednesday, June 24 Number of buy-ins: 315 Total prize pool: $724,500 Number of payouts: 32 Winning hand: 10-8-4-4-9-7-J Reference:[51]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Jeff Lisandro (3/4) $188,370 2nd Michael Craig $116,405 3rd Ryan Fisler $76,261 4th Warwick Mirzikinian $52,773 5th Eric Rodawig $38,471 6th Kenna James $29,473 7th Steve Diano $23,669 8th Allen Bari $19,880

Event 45: $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Tuesday, June 23 to Thursday, June 25 Number of buy-ins: 275 Total prize pool: $2,585,000 Number of payouts: 27 Winning hand: A♥ A♣ Reference:[52]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st John Kabbaj (1/1) $633,335 2nd Kirill Gerasimov $391,369 3rd Eric Baldwin (1/1) $259,534 4th Davidi Kitai (0/1) $183,638 5th J.C. Alvarado $138,375 6th Jason Lester (0/1) $110,431 7th Eugene Todd $93,085 8th Isaac Haxton $82,668 9th Darryll Fish $77,136

Event 46: $2,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better 3-Day Event: Tuesday, June 23 to Thursday, June 25 Number of buy-ins: 424 Total prize pool: $975,200 Number of payouts: 45 Winning hand: 3♦ 4♣ 5♣ 10♠ Reference:[53]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Derek Raymond (1/1) $229,192 2nd Mark Tenner $141,647 3rd Scott Bohlman $93,199 4th Fabio Coppola $65,094 5th Josh Schlein $48,028 6th Sirous Jamshidi $37,350 7th Michael Keiner (0/1) $30,562 8th Mark Gregorich $26,213 9th Pat Poels (0/2) $23,541

Event 47: $2,500 Mixed Hold'em 3-Day Event: Wednesday, June 24 to Friday, June 26 Number of buy-ins: 527 Total prize pool: $1,212,100 Number of payouts: 54 Winning hand: J♦ 3♦ No-Limit Hold'em Reference:[54]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Bahador Ahmadi (1/1) $278,804 2nd John McGuiness $172,227 3rd Ylon Schwartz $112,967 4th Karlo Lopez $78,628 5th Barry Greenstein (0/3) $57,671 6th Matt Woodward $44,520 7th Randy Haddox $36,084 8th Hasan Habib (0/1) $30,641 9th Zachary Humphrey $27,199

Event 48: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better 3-Day Event: Thursday, June 25 to Saturday, June 27 Number of buy-ins: 762 Total prize pool: $1,040,130 Number of payouts: 72 Winning hand: A♥ 10♣ 7♣ 4♦ Reference:[55]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Brandon Cantu (1/2) $228,867 2nd Lee Watkinson (0/1) $141,873 3rd Mathieu Jacqmin $92,946 4th Ted Weinstock $64,727 5th Tommy Vedes $47,617 6th Steve Jelinek $36,893 7th Aaron Sias $30,028 8th Ronnie Hofman $25,618 9th William McMahan $22,862

Event 49: $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. 5-Day Event: Friday, June 26 to Tuesday, June 30 Number of buy-ins: 95 Total prize pool: $4,560,000 Number of payouts: 16 Winning hand: 4♦ 7♦ 6♠ A♣ A♠ Q♥ 9♠ (Razz) Reference:[56]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st David Bach (1/1) $1,276,802 2nd John Hanson $789,199 3rd Erik Sagström $522,394 4th Vitaly Lunkin (1/2) $368,813 5th Huck Seed (0/4) $276,610 6th Ville Wahlbeck (1/1) $219,655 7th Chau Giang (0/3) $184,087 8th Erik Seidel (0/8) $162,382

Event 50: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout 3-Day Event: Friday, June 26 to Sunday, June 28 Number of buy-ins: 572 Total prize pool: $779,024 Number of payouts: 64 Winning hand: K♦ 5♥ Reference:[57]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Greg Mueller (2/2) $194,854 2nd Marc Naalden (1/1) $120,614 3rd Millie Shiu $77,138 4th David Williams (0/1) $51,145 5th Matthew Sterling $35,058 6th Flaminio Malaguti $24,824 7th Joep Van Den Bijgaart $18,136 8th Jose Ignacio "Nacho" Barbero $13,655

Event 51: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Saturday, June 27 to Monday, June 29 Number of buy-ins: 2,781 Total prize pool: $3,796,065 Number of payouts: 297 Winning hand: 6♦ 6♣ Reference:[58]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Carsten Joh (1/1) $664,426 2nd Andrew Chen $412,632 3rd David Walasinski $272,405 4th Steven Levy $192,650 5th Owen Crowe $145,199 6th Thibaut Durand $115,817 7th Georgios Kapalas $97,634 8th Jason Helder $86,702 9th Nathan Page $80,894

Event 52: $3,000 Triple Chance No Limit Hold'em^[e] 3-Day Event: Sunday, June 28 to Tuesday, June 30 Number of buy-ins: 854 Total prize pool: $2,357,040 Number of payouts: 81 Winning hand: 9♥ 9♦ Reference:[59]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Jörg Peisert (1/1) $506,800 2nd Jason DeWitt $313,227 3rd Benjamin Gilbert $205,180 4th Michael Noda $142,035 5th Jason Somerville $103,591 6th Michael Katz $79,385 7th Karga Holt $63,781 8th William Erickson $53,622 9th Wes Watson $47,070

Event 53: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better 3-Day Event: Sunday, June 28 to Tuesday, June 30 Number of buy-ins: 467 Total prize pool: $637,455 Number of payouts: 48 Winning hand: 9♥ 2♠ 4♥ 7♣ K♣ K♦ 4♠ Reference:[60]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st David Halpern (1/1) $159,390 2nd William Kohler $98,550 3rd Max Stern (0/3) $64,484 4th Chad Brown $44,589 5th Matt Savage $32,465 6th Zak Gilbert $24,828 7th Brian Swinford $19,901 8th Allie Prescott $16,682

Event 54: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 3-Day Event: Monday, June 29 to Wednesday, July 1 Number of buy-ins: 2,818 Total prize pool: $3,846,570 Number of payouts: 297 Winning hand: 9♥ J♣ Reference:[61]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Tony Veckey (1/1) $673,276 2nd Jason Wheeler $418,122 3rd Joseph Chaplin $276,029 4th Sergey Konkin $195,213 5th Andrew Malott $147,131 6th Christopher Bonita $117,358 7th Christopher DeMaci $98,933 8th David Jaoui $87,855 9th Miha Remic $81,970

Event 55: $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball 3-Day Event: Monday, June 29 to Wednesday, July 1 Number of buy-ins: 257 Total prize pool: $593,400 Number of payouts: 24 Winning hand: 7-6-5-3-2 Reference:[62]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Abe Mosseri (1/1) $165,521 2nd Masayoshi Tanaka $102,313 3rd Julie Schneider $66,285 4th John Juanda (0/4) $44,941 5th Blair Rodman (0/1) $31,818 6th Brad Libson $23,484

Event 56: $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Short Handed 3-Day Event: Tuesday, June 30 to Thursday, July 2 Number of buy-ins: 928 Total prize pool: $4,361,600 Number of payouts: 90 Winning hand: J♥ J♦ Reference:[63]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Matt Hawrilenko (1/1) $1,003,163 2nd Josh Brikis $619,609 3rd Faraz Jaka $400,526 4th Sean Keeton $269,983 5th Jonas Wexler $189,555 6th Matthew Waxman $138,394

Event 57: $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em 13-Day Event: Friday, July 3 to Wednesday, July 15 Final Table:^[f] Saturday, November 7 to Tuesday, November 10 Number of buy-ins: 6,494 Total prize pool: $60,043,650 Number of payouts: 648 Winning hand: 9♦ 9♣ Reference:[64]

Final table Place Name Prize 1st Joe Cada (1/1) $8,546,453 2nd Darvin Moon $5,182,601 3rd Antoine Saout $3,479,485 4th Eric Buchman $2,502,787 5th Jeff Shulman $1,953,395 6th Steven Begleiter $1,587,133 7th Phil Ivey (2/7) $1,404,002 8th Kevin Schaffel $1,300,228 9th James Akenhead $1,263,602

References

^a The $7.7 million prize pool was the largest non-main event prize pool in WSOP history.^[6]

^b The 918 players set a record turnout for an Omaha event at the WSOP.^[6]

^c Event 5 was originally scheduled to end on June 2, but because of the size of the field the tournament was extended a day.

^d Event 4 had the lowest buy-in of all the open events since the 2006 WSOP. Dubbed the "$1,000 buy-in Stimulus Special," it set a new record for a non-main event tournament with 6,012 participants. This number would have been larger, but the tournament was capped at 6,012 players.^[6][7]

^e Like all the Pot Limit Omaha events, event 52 was a "Triple Chance" event. In these events players had access to three equal units of chips. For example, in a $2500 event, players have access to a total of 7500 in chips, but they had to option to start with either 2500, 5000 or all 7500. If they started with 2500, and lost those chips, they could access another 2500 or their remaining 5000. They were not eliminated until they had lost all 7500 of their possible starting chips. Thus the event was not a rebuy event(There were no rebuy events in 2009 WSOP.), but rather one where players could lose all their chips during the first three rounds but not be eliminated until they lost all 7500 chips. If a player started with less than the full 7500, at the end of three rounds any remaining available 2500 units were added to the player's stacks, and anyone losing all their chips after that point would be eliminated.

^f The final table of the Main Event is now known as the November Nine as the nine players have to wait until November to determine who the champion is.

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