IPA (2021-2022) Match 3 Recap

Overview

The IPA 2021-2022 tournament resumed with Match 3 on January 14th and 15th.

Columbia Law, Cornell, and Georgia Tech continue to expand their leads and shows consistent performance within their groups. Cornell and Georgia Tech dominate their groups. Auckland improves significantly from last to third. The team fights for Kiwi representation in the post season.

Group A continues to lead with UNSW with arguably the closest matched teams. Spread from first to last place is only 12 points and standard deviation is 4.38 points – the lowest within all groups. Auckland and UC Davis exchanges momentum as Auckland now sits in third and Davis sits in last. The fight for the playoff seats continue and the wildcard spot is within any team’s grasp.

Group B sees movement from Columbia Law and Manchester who now claims first and second. Michigan is a quarter point away from a playoff seat. William & Mary drops their early tournament lead to fourth, but is still within contention.

Group C’s Illinois recovers major ground from a poor Match 2 performance and now sits in third. Illinois edges out McGill and Yale. Match 4 will provide a clearer picture on which of the three teams will claim the wildcard spot and possibly a playoff spot. Claremont McKenna improves to first.

Group D realizes a few position swaps. Indiana and Princeton exchanges their third and fourth place standings. Boston University and Northeastern exchanges sixth and seventh place standings. Georgia Tech keeps their lead with a healthy margin.

Group E sees close results amongst the top four teams. Vanderbilt, UPenn, Waterloo, and Tufts all need to show strong results in their last two matches. Spread between the top four teams is only five points.

Group F sees current IPA champion Brown again taking back lost ground. They improve from third to second. UMass put up a strong performance and won Match 3. Cornell dominates the group and drives their point margin from second place outward.

Notable Hands

Group C, Table 1, Hand 58 (8/40/80)

Chris Madison (Booth), James Leung (Yale), Tasha Liang (McGill)

Liang (4846 | SB) Madison (5740 | BB) Leung (3414 | BTN)

Leung raises to 220

Liang and Madison calls 220

Flop: 8♠ 4♥ 8♦

Liang checks

Madison bets 325

Leung folds

Liang calls 325

Turn: 8♠ 4♥ 8♦ [9♦]

Liang checks

Madison checks

River: 8♠ 4♥ 8♦ 9♦ [10♥]

Madison bets 425

Liang raises to 905

Madison folds

Liang wins the pot of 2,160 chips with 8♥ 8♣.

Group B, Table 2, Hand 26 (4/20/40)

Kiril Voynishki (Manchester), Jarvis Bereday (William & Mary), Jeffrey Xu (Harvard), Xyzlo Lee (Columbia Law), Jacob Fain (Wesleyan), Joshua Bay (Michigan)

Bay (1843 | SB) Voynishki (1875 | BB) Bereday (1206 | UTG) Xu (1680 | UTG+1) Lee (2798 | CO) Fain (2598 | BTN)

Folds to Lee who raises to 80

Fain raises to 245

Bay and Voynishki folds

Lee calls 245

Flop: 3♣ 6♥ 9♥

Lee checks

Fain bets 275

Lee raises to 670

Fain calls 670

Turn: 3♣ 6♥ 9♥ [4♦]

Lee checks

Fain checks

River: 3♣ 6♥ 9♥ 4♦ [3♦]

Lee bets 1683 and goes all in

Fain folds

Lee wins the pot of 1,890 chips and shows 2♠ A♠. Fain shows 6♣ 8♣.

Group D, Table 4, Hand 37 (4/20/40)

Nicholas Goei (Indiana), Will Rumble (Oxford), Anthony Porco (BU), Alan Chao (Northwestern), Florian Pesce (Georgia Tech), Qinghua Liu (Princeton)

Pesce (2885 | SB) Liu (2727 | BB) Goei (1817 | UTG) Rumble (1745 | UTG+1) Porco (807 | CO) Chao (2019 | BTN)

Folds to Pesce who calls 40

Liu raises to 100

Pesce raises to 360

Liu raises to 720

Flop: 9♥ 3♦ 8♦

Pesce checks

Liu bets 692

Pesce calls 692

Turn: 9♥ 3♦ 8♦ [6♣]

Pesce checks

Liu checks

River: 9♥ 3♦ 8♦ 6♣ [10♠]

Pesce bets 1311 and goes all in

Liu calls and goes all in

Pesce (A♦ A♥) Liu (6♥ A♣)

Pesce wins the pot of 5,470 chips.

Group D, Table 1, Hand 67 (6/30/60)

Sarina Ku (Northwestern), George Yao (Princeton), Socrates Raftis (Indiana), Jonathan Tam (Oxford), Maxwell Guo (Georgia Tech)

Guo (2859 | SB) Ku (2762 | BB) Yao (1617 | UTG) Raftis (3010 | CO) Tam (1752 | BTN)

Yao raises to 135

Raftis folds

Tam calls 135

Guo raises to 2756 and goes all in

Ku calls and goes all in

Yao and Tam folds

Ku (K♣ K♠) Guo (J♠ Q♠)

Flop: 5♠ 6♠ 4♠

Turn: 5♠ 6♠ 4♠ [5♥]

River: 5♠ 6♠ 4♠ 5♥ [8♣]

Guo wins the pot of 5,812 chips.

January’s Table Leaders

Saabiq Ali (UNSW), Fred Baldwin (Michigan), Isaac Blue (UPenn), Hu Chen (Sydney), Matthew Cooney (York), Alexander Dranoff (Indiana), Chris Fang (Waterloo), Luke Gastelu (Cornell), Aidan Gomar (McGill), Jake Green (Illinois), Felix Hayes-Tourelle (Auckland), Toby Hirsch (UPenn), Eric Lasry (Oxford), Tasha Liang (McGill), Beckham Lie (USC), Kyle McCormack (Victoria), Florian Pesce (Georgia Tech), Shane Pike (Illinois), Jonathan Pry (Columbia Law), William Rodliffe (Manchester), Diart Spahija (UMass), Joshua Stotzky (Vanderbilt), Jonathan Tam (Oxford), Albie Vock (Manchester), Kiril Voynishki (Manchester), Robbie Wilson (Edinburgh), Shuto Yasuda (UBC), Xinyi Zheng (Princeton), Jason Zhou (UMass), Cottrell van Wingerden (Brown)

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Updates

There are three changes to the current rules and one change to the relegation system.

The IPA tournament will resume on February 4th and 5th, 2022.