Leaderboards

All-time IPA records for teams and players, from every season since 2019.

Championships

Most IPA championships

2020–21, 2021–22
  1. 2Boston University2019–201
  2. 2Columbia Law2022–231
  3. 2Waterloo2024–251
  4. 2Cambridge2025–261

Most Finals appearances

  1. 2Cambridge2
  2. 2Columbia Law2
  3. 2Georgia Tech2
  4. 2Waterloo2

Most seasons in the IPA

every season
  1. 1Cornellevery season6
  2. 1Michiganevery season6
  3. 1Yaleevery season6
  4. 5Boston University5
  5. 5Harvard5
  6. 5MIT5

Best average group finish (3+ seasons)

  1. 2Oxford1.67
  2. 3Cambridge2.00
  3. 3Columbia Law2.00
  4. 3Pomona2.00

Career records

Best average finish (min. 10 tables)

  1. 2Andrew Hollett (Tufts)1.94
  2. 3Camran Lateef (Brown)2.00
  3. 4Matthew Wang (Waterloo)2.09
  4. 5Eric Jiang (Waterloo)2.27

Longest winning streak (tables)

2021–22
  1. 2Sunny Wang (Penn)2025–264
  2. 2Kaiwen Xu (Waterloo)2025–264
  3. 2Flavius Vlasiu (Oxford)2021–224
  4. 2Zhenglun Gavin Wu (Illinois)2025–264

Most consecutive top-3 finishes

2021–22 to 2022–23
  1. 2Joshua Stotzky (Michigan / Vanderbilt)2020–21 to 2022–2311
  2. 3Tiannan Zhang (Carnegie Mellon)2024–25 to 2025–2610
  3. 4Nathaniel Cohen-Goh (Auckland)2021–229
  4. 5Andrew Hollett (Tufts)2022–238

Single-season records

Most tables won in a season

2021–22
  1. 1Joshua Stotzky (Vanderbilt)2021–226
  2. 3Tiannan Zhang (Carnegie Mellon)2024–255
  3. 3Charlie Welch (Harvard)2022–235
  4. 3Camran Lateef (Brown)2021–225

Most tables played in a season

2024–25
  1. 1Neal Kapoor (Columbia Law)2022–2310
  2. 1Tiannan Zhang (Carnegie Mellon)2024–2510
  3. 4Aaron Chen (Harvard)2020–219
  4. 4Alain Rossier (Oxford)2022–239

Most hands played in a season

2021–22
  1. 2Kiran Rebholz (Oxford)2022–231087
  2. 3Kevin Wu (Pomona)2021–221068
  3. 4Richard Zhou (Oxford)2022–231065
  4. 5Charlie Welch (Harvard)2022–231057

Team records

Most table wins in a season

2022–23
  1. 2Vanderbilt2021–2216
  2. 3Cambridge2025–2615
  3. 3Pomona2022–2315
  4. 3Penn2025–2615

Most table wins in one match

2022–23, Match 5
  1. 2Brown2021–22, Match 54
  2. 2Cambridge2025–26 Finals, Match 14
  3. 2Carnegie Mellon2022–23 Playoffs, Match 24
  4. 2Columbia Law2022–23 Playoffs, Match 34

Highest team match score

2022–23, Match 5
  1. 2Manchester2022–23, Match 567
  2. 3Vanderbilt2022–23, Match 565
  3. 4WashU2025–26, Match 561
  4. 5Vanderbilt2024–25, Match 558

Biggest margin of victory in a match

2022–23, Match 5 · 75 to 29 vs Columbia Law
  1. 2Manchester2022–23, Match 5 · 67 to 31 vs Indiana+35
  2. 3BU2025–26 Challenger, Match 2 · 56 to 28 vs Toronto+28
  3. 3Vanderbilt2022–23, Match 5 · 65 to 37 vs BU+28
  4. 5Vanderbilt2022–23, Match 4 · 51 to 29 vs BU+22

Most regular-season points

2025–26
  1. 2Vanderbilt2022–23226
  2. 3Illinois2025–26 Challenger222
  3. 4Imperial2025–26219
  4. 4Pomona2022–23219

Perfect attendance (no empty seats)

2020–21 to 2022–23
  1. 1Georgia Tech2021–22 to 2024–25100%
  2. 1Pomona2020–21 to 2022–23100%
  3. 1Vanderbilt2021–22 to 2024–25100%
  4. 1Tufts2021–22 to 2024–25100%

Game records

Most hands in one game

2021–22, Match 1 · 86 min
  1. 2Renee Hong (MIT)2024–25, Match 4 · 81 min269
  2. 3Alvin Zou (Harvard)2022–23, Match 5 · 102 min255
  3. 5Jonathan Pry (Columbia Law)2021–22 Playoffs, Match 3 · 91 min238

Longest game (minutes)

2021–22, Match 1 · 208 hands, 137 min
  1. 2Qinghua Liu (Princeton)2021–22, Match 1 · 186 hands, 127 min127
  2. 2Alain Rossier (Oxford)2021–22, Match 2 · 213 hands, 127 min127
  3. 4Maxwell Chengming Guo (Georgia Tech)2021–22, Match 1 · 156 hands, 125 min125
  4. 5Kenan Patel (Illinois)2021–22, Match 1 · 224 hands, 125 min125

Shortest game (hands)

2025–26, Match 2 · 40 hands, 45 min
  1. 2Justin Shiao (Georgia Tech)2022–23, Match 5 · 48 hands, 46 min48
  2. 3Jeremy Luo (Vanderbilt)2024–25, Match 2 · 50 hands, 43 min50
  3. 4Richard Zhang (Boston College)2025–26, Match 3 · 51 hands, 46 min51
  4. 5Christopher Schober (Penn)2022–23, Match 2 · 52 hands, 61 min52

Longest heads-up battle (hands)

2021–22, Match 1
  1. 2Lawrence Hickford (Warwick) vs Arnav Bhakta (Yale)2025–26, Match 5201 hands
  2. 3Seyane Sivarakulan (Cambridge) vs Arnav Bhakta (Yale)2025–26 Playoffs, Match 1181 hands
  3. 4Renee Hong (MIT) vs Brendan LaFrenier (Michigan)2024–25, Match 4176 hands
  4. 5Ethan Mandelbaum (Columbia Law) vs Jennifer Luo (Waterloo)2022–23 Playoffs, Match 2172 hands

Longest heads-up battle (minutes)

2025–26, Match 5
  1. 2Rishabh Ghosh (Harvard) vs Justin Shiao (Georgia Tech)2022–23 Playoffs, Match 265.1 min
  2. 3Connor Flynn (UCLA) vs Patrick Smith (Illinois)2025–26 Challenger, Match 364.9 min
  3. 4Andrew Chen (UCLA) vs Patrick Smith (Illinois)2025–26 Challenger, Match 259.6 min
  4. 5Seyane Sivarakulan (Cambridge) vs Arnav Bhakta (Yale)2025–26 Playoffs, Match 157.5 min

Most eliminations in one game

2024–25, Match 2
  1. 1Shane Pike (Illinois)2021–22, Match 36
  2. 3Aidan Post (Georgetown)2021–22, Match 45
  3. 3Albie Vock (Manchester)2021–22, Match 35
  4. 3Alexander Huang (NYU)2025–26, Match 15

Most hands won in one game

2021–22 Playoffs, Match 3
  1. 2Justin Wong (Imperial)2021–22, Match 1144
  2. 3Spencer Cheung (Northeastern)2022–23, Match 3138
  3. 4Brendan LaFrenier (Michigan)2024–25, Match 4131
  4. 5Seyane Sivarakulan (Cambridge)2025–26 Playoffs, Match 1121

Most all-ins survived in one game

2021–22, Match 4
  1. 2Peter Robertson (Waterloo)2021–22, Match 135
  2. 3Ryan Shimizu (British Columbia)2021–22, Match 134
  3. 4Joshua Zheng (Waterloo)2025–26 Playoffs, Match 128
  4. 5Jacob Matten (Brown)2025–26, Match 327

Longest survival as the short stack

2025–26 Playoffs, Match 1
  1. 2Vedant Jaiswal (BU)2021–22, Match 287 hands
  2. 3Andy Tan (Cornell)2021–22, Match 286 hands
  3. 4Vimal Kamath (Cambridge)2024–25 Playoffs, Match 275 hands
  4. 5Braden Pollack (Northwestern)2025–26, Match 474 hands

Biggest pot (big blinds)

2024–25, Match 2 · 6102 chips
  1. 2Allen He (Johns Hopkins)2024–25, Match 4 · 6006 chips300.3
  2. 4Patrick Smith (Illinois)2025–26 Challenger, Match 2 · 6597 chips at blinds 15/30219.9
  3. 5Isaac Blue (Penn)2021–22, Match 2 · 4320 chips216.0

Biggest single-hand win (big blinds)

2024–25, Match 2
  1. 2Allen He (Johns Hopkins)2024–25, Match 4200.3
  2. 3Isaac Blue (Penn)2021–22, Match 2115.2
  3. 4Kevin Park (Pomona)2022–23 Playoffs, Match 2113.0
  4. 5Joseph Galicot (WashU)2025–26, Match 2112.3

Biggest comeback to win a table

2024–25, Match 2
  1. 2Tharun Raviendran (UNC)2025–26, Match 52.43% of chips
  2. 3Aidan Chen (Harvey Mudd)2025–26, Match 42.99% of chips
  3. 4Conrad Crakes (Penn)2022–23, Match 33.47% of chips
  4. 5Evan Merzon (Duke)2025–26, Match 43.53% of chips

Luck and big hands

Biggest suckout

2024–25, Match 4 · 4♣ 6♣ vs 7♣ 10♣
  1. 2Henry Berkemeier (Chicago Booth)2022–23, Match 2 · Q♥ 9♣ vs K♠ K♣2.4%
  2. 3Christos Iason Enotiadis (UC San Diego)2025–26 Challenger, Match 2 · 6♣ 6♥ vs 10♥ Q♥4.5%
  3. 3Pranav Reddy (UC San Diego)2022–23, Match 1 · J♥ J♦ vs Q♣ K♠4.5%
  4. 3Thomas Schreck (Wake Forest)2025–26, Match 2 · A♠ A♦ vs 10♦ 10♠4.5%

Luckiest all-ins (wins above expected)

  1. 2Jonathan Tam (Oxford)+8.15
  2. 3Ryan Shimizu (British Columbia)+7.72
  3. 4Sungho Moon (Yale)+5.96
  4. 5Filippo Cirilli (Bocconi)+5.84

Unluckiest all-ins (wins below expected)

  1. 2Trey Skidmore (Yale)−6.11
  2. 3Malcom Schiltz (Occidental)−4.4
  3. 4Yashika Gupta (Chicago Booth)−3.87
  4. 5Phoenix Taku (Auckland)−3.65

Royal flushes

Leo Luk (UNSW)royal flush
2022–23, Match 4
  1. 1Luke Wang (Harvey Mudd)2025–26, Match 2royal flush
  2. 1Saatvik Sejpal (Harvey Mudd)2021–22, Match 2royal flush

Playing style