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David Bach won the $50,000 HORSE Championship. Despite making a final table over the past four years, this was the first time Bach won a bracelet. At 18 hours and 44 minutes the final table of the $50K HORSE event was the second longest final table in WSOP history. Brock Parker, aka t_saprano online, won back-to-back events in short handed limit and no-limit hold'em events. Vitaly Lunkin won his second bracelet at the $40,000 No-Limit Hold'em event. The $40,000 No-Limit Hold'em event is considered to be one of the toughest fields ever assembled. 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. Phil Ivey, considered by many to be the best poker player in the world, became the youngest player to ever amass seven WSOP bracelets and tying him with Poker Hall of Famer Billy Baxter at sixth over all with seven bracelets. Ville Wahlbeck finished one of the most consistent WSOP's ever. Wahlbeck won a bracelet, came in second in an event, third in a third event, sixth in a fourth, and twelth and thirteenth in two others. Six top 13 finishes at the WSOP is "one of the most impressive" performances at WSOP history. Jeff Lisandro became the fifth player to ever win three bracelets in the same year. He was the first player to do so since 2002. Poker super star 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."

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 unable to complete in the Main Event. 1996 WSOP champion Huck Seed would have been included in that list, if he had not won the NBC National Heads-Up Championship which guaranteed entree into the 2009 WSOP Main Event. According to early reports, the final day of the Main Event reached capacity in 2006 and 2007.