IPA (2021 – 2022) Match 5 Recap
Overview
The IPA 2021–2022 tournament resumed with Match 5 on March 4 and 5.
The playoff and wildcard teams are now set. The playoff teams are Auckland, UNSW, Columbia Law, Manchester, Claremont McKenna, Yale, Oxford, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Cornell and Brown. The wildcard teams are Pomona, Michigan, McGill, Princeton, UPenn and Imperial.
Auckland wins Group A after a strong performance. USC also has a solid showing but falls a few points short of the wildcard position. UNSW claims the second playoff spot, and Pomona plays next weekend in the IPA Wildcard game.
Group B produces consistent results. Columbia Law wins the group with Manchester in second, and Michigan holds a strong lead over William & Mary to earn a place in the IPA Wildcard game.
No group is closer than Group C, where the top three teams are separated by just two points. Claremont McKenna wins the group, while McGill and Yale tie for second. Yale defeats McGill in the heads-up tiebreaker, sending McGill to the IPA Wildcard game.
Group D sees another surprising performance, with Oxford clinching victory over Georgia Tech. Oxford wins the group with 128 points to Georgia Tech’s 127.75, and Princeton will play in the IPA Wildcard game.
Group E sees a few teams switch places. Vanderbilt wins the group, while Tufts outperforms UPenn to claim the second playoff spot. UPenn will play in the Wildcard game.
In Group F, Brown comes back with a huge performance, averaging slightly better than 2nd place across all its tables and moving from 5th to 2nd 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 check
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 Schober (UPenn) Punn Kamolyabutr (UC San Diego)
Schober (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 call
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 lure 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
| Name | Team |
| Tomi Akisanya |  Illinois |
| Joey Arslanian |  Michigan |
| Parsa Esfahani |  Georgia Tech |
| Shiv Gupta |  USC |
| Drew Hollett |  Tufts |
| David Huang |  UNSW |
| Hubert Januszczak |  Auckland |
| Neal Kapoor |  Columbia Law |
| Eric Lasry |  Oxford |
| Camran Lateef |  Brown |
| Stephen Li |  Waterloo |
| Marissa Li |  Harvard |
| Ben McGowan |  McGill |
| Leo McMahon | Brown |
| Zhiyuan Ning | USC |
| Joshua Peng |  Vanderbilt |
| William Peng |  Yale |
| Arnau Puig |  Imperial |
| Zach Roberts | Georgia Tech |
| Will Rumble | Oxford |
| Shiah Sarkowsky |  Claremont McKenna |
| Mitchell Scholefield | Waterloo |
| Eli Shea | Brown |
| Josh Stotzky | Vanderbilt |
| Phoenix Taku | Auckland |
| Flavius Vlasiu | Oxford |
| Cottrell van Wingerden | Brown |
| Nicholas Woo |  Georgetown |
| Blake Woodford | Harvard |
| Austin Zhu | Yale |
Group A
| Team | Points | Match 5 | Change | Status |
| Auckland | 111.25 | 30 | ↑+2 | Qualified |
| UNSW | 110 | 19 | ↓-1 | Qualified |
 Pomona | 108.75 | 18 | ↓-1 | Wildcard |
| USC | 106 | 27 | No change | |
 Victoria | 95.25 | 20.5 | No change | |
 Sydney | 92.5 | 19.5 | No change | |
 UC Davis | 73.75 | 6 | No change |
Group B
| Team | Points | Match 5 | Change | Status |
| Columbia Law | 121.5 | 26 | No change | Qualified |
 Manchester | 120 | 26 | No change | Qualified |
| Michigan | 116.75 | 23 | No change | Wildcard |
| William & Mary | 105.75 | 17.75 | No change | |
| Harvard | 94.5 | 27 | ↑+1 | |
 Wesleyan | 77.25 | 6.5 | ↓-1 | |
| Georgetown | 63 | 13.5 | No change |
Group C
| Team | Points | Match 5 | Change | Status |
| Claremont McKenna | 114 | 24 | ↑+1 | Qualified |
| Yale | 112 | 29 | ↑+1 | Qualified |
| McGill | 112 | 20 | ↓-1 | Wildcard |
 Washington University | 105 | 22.75 | No change | |
| Illinois | 104.75 | 25 | No change | |
 York | 83.75 | 9 | No change | |
 Chicago Booth | 65.5 | 10 | No change |
Group D
| Team | Points | Match 5 | Change | Status |
| Oxford | 128 | 32 | ↑+1 | Qualified |
| Georgia Tech | 127.75 | 23 | ↓-1 | Qualified |
 Princeton | 105.5 | 20.5 | No change | Wildcard |
 Indiana | 88.75 | 12.25 | No change | |
 Boston University | 86.25 | 14 | No change | |
 Northwestern | 86 | 16 | No change | |
 Northeastern | 75 | 21 | No change |
Group E
| Team | Points | Match 5 | Change | Status |
| Vanderbilt | 106 | 23 | No change | Qualified |
| Tufts | 103.75 | 22.75 | ↑+1 | Qualified |
 UPenn | 98.5 | 16 | ↓-1 | Wildcard |
| Waterloo | 95.75 | 20 | No change | |
 Edinburgh | 60.5 | 14.25 | ↑+1 | |
 UC San Diego | 60 | 8.5 | ↓-1 |
Group F
| Team | Points | Match 5 | Change | Status |
 Cornell | 131.75 | 26.75 | No change | Qualified |
| Brown | 112 | 32 | ↑+3 | Qualified |
| Imperial | 108.75 | 25 | No change | Wildcard |
 Miami | 103.75 | 17 | ↓-2 | |
 Harvey Mudd | 101.75 | 20.75 | ↓-1 | |
 British Columbia | 80.25 | 11 | No change | |
 UMass | 59 | 7 | No change |
The IPA tournament will resume on March 11 with the IPA Wildcard game.