buy-ins: 467 Total prize pool: $637,455 Number of payouts: 48 Winning hand: Reference: 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: Reference: 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: 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: Reference: Event 57: $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em 13-Day Event: Friday, July 3 to Wednesday, July 15 Final Table: 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: Reference: References The $7.7 million prize pool was the largest non-main event prize pool in WSOP history. The 918 players set a record turnout for an Omaha event at the WSOP. Event 5 was originally scheduled to end on June 2, but because of the size of the field the tournament was extended a day. 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. 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