IPA (2021-2022) Match 5 Recap

Overview

The IPA 2021-2022 tournament resumed with Match 5 on March 4th and 5th.

The playoff and wildcard teams are finalized. Playoff teams include Auckland, UNSW, Columbia Law, Manchester, Claremont McKenna, Yale, Oxford, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Cornell, and Brown. Wildcard teams include Pomona, Michigan, McGill, Princeton, UPenn, and Imperial.

Group A sees a strong performance by Auckland who wins Group A. USC also has a solid showing, but is a few points short from the wildcard position. UNSW claims the second playoff spot and Pomona plays next weekend in the IPA Wildcard game.

Group B realizes consistent results. Columbia Law wins Group B with Manchester in second. Michigan holds a strong lead over William & Mary and will play in the IPA Wildcard game.

Competition doesn’t get closer other than Group C. The top three teams share a two point margin. Claremont McKenna wins Group C while McGill and Yale tie for second. Yale defeats McGill in the heads up tiebreaker. McGill will play in the IPA Wildcard game.

Group D sees another surprising performance with Oxford clenching victory over Georgia Tech. Oxford wins Group D with 128 points against Georgia Tech’s 127.75. Princeton will play in the IPA Wildcard game.

Group E sees a few teams switching places. Vanderbilt wins Group E while Tufts outperforms UPenn to claim the second playoff spot. UPenn will play in the Wildcard game.

Group F’s Brown comes back with a huge performance. Brown averages slightly higher than 2nd place in all their tables and moves from 5th to 2nd place in the group. Cornell wins Group F and Imperial will play in the Wildcard game.

Notable Hands

Group D, Table 4, Hand 92 (38/75/150)

Zach Roberts (Georgia Tech) Spencer Cheung (Northeastern)

Roberts (6530 | SB) Cheung (3470 | BB)

Roberts raises to 375 and Cheung calls

Flop: 2♥ 6♠ J♥

Cheung bets 400 and Roberts calls

Turn: 2♥ 6♠ J♥ [4♥]

Cheung and Roberts checks

River: 2♥ 6♠ J♥ 4♥ [8♥]

Cheung bets 2657 and goes all in

Roberts folds

Cheung wins the pot of 1,626 chips with 5♠ Q♣.

Group E, Table 5, Hand 49 (20/40/80)

Niles Lo (Tufts) Joshua Stotzky (Vanderbilt) Jacca Robertson (Edinburgh) Christopher Jackson (Georgia Tech) Punn Kamolyabutr (UCSD)

Jackson (430 | SB) Kamolyabutr (3103 | BB) Lo (2301 | UTG) Stotzky (2321 | CO) Robertson (3845 | BTN)

Stotzky raises to 180

Folds to Kamolyabutr who raises to 280

Stotzky raises to 710

Kamolyabutr raises to 2301 and goes all in

Stotzky calls

Kamolyabutr (A♠ A♣) Stotzky (K♥ K♠)

Flop: 4♠ 5♥ 2♦

Turn: 4♠ 5♥ 2♦ [10♦]

River: 4♠ 5♥ 2♦ 10♦ [K♣]

Stotzky wins the pot of 4,742 chips.

Group D, Table 5, Hand 25 (10/20/40)

Zach Roberts (Georgia Tech) Sarina Ku (Northwestern) Nicholas Goei (Indiana) Alain Rossier (Oxford) Spencer Cheung (Northeastern)

Goei (2212 | SB) Rossier (1095 | BB) Cheung (3300 | UTG) Roberts (2224 | CO) Ku (1169 | BTN)

Folds to Ku who raises to 80

Goei and Rossier calls

Flop: 10♠ A♠ 5♣

Checks to Ku who bets 110

Goei folds and Rossier calls

Turn: 10♠ A♠ 5♣ [4♣]

Rossier checks

Ku bets 180 and Rossier calls

River: 10♠ A♠ 5♣ 4♣ [J♠]

Rossier checks

Ku bets 40

Rossier bets 715 and goes all in

Ku calls 715

Rossier (6♠ 7♠) Ku (2♠ 3♠)

Rossier wins the pot of 2,300 chips.

Rossier’s thoughts – “Crazy hand here, Alain R thinking of check raising all-in the turn, decided for the low variance path of flatting and realizing his equity. Screaming on that river, setting the trap by checking a third time. Then Sarina misclicked? Or did she lured me into shoving her min click? Anyways, a bit of Hollywooding from my end, taking 30 secs before shoving and being snap called with a lower flush. Sorry not sorry!”

March’s Table Leaders

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

The IPA tournament will resume on March 11th with the IPA Wildcard game.