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Michael Prendergast has won the WSOP Event #24: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack for $127,428.
After two days of action, the American topped a field of 1,572 entries and took home the six-figure prize that was only his ninth live tournament cash. He still doesn’t have a five-figure prize on his record and only one of four-figures.
Unexpected
After battling hard for two days, Michael Prendergast landed at a final table with barely any chips remaining. It wasn’t looking like a great situation, but, hey, a chip and a chair, and all that.A triple up soon after play started changed the likely outcome drastically. Prendergast was back in business.
The event came to a conclusion when Prendergast called it off with a worse flush draw and Jeffrey Barnes having a pair of eights to boot. The poker gods saw it differently, though, and fired a pair of aces in Prendergast’s direction on the river and it was all over.
Final results:
| 1 | Michael Prendergast | $127,428 |
| 2 | Jeffrey Barnes | $78,755 |
| 3 | Jungwoong Park | $57,386 |
| 4 | Joao Simao | $42,272 |
| 5 | Daniel Wasserberg | $31,485 |
| 6 | Donnie Phan | $23,713 |
| 7 | Eric Polirer | $18,062 |
| 8 | John Bunch | $13,915 |
| 9 | Joseph Sanders | $10,845 |
