IPA (2022-2023) Match 2 Recap
Overview
The IPA 2022-2023 tournament resumes with Match 2 on January 14th and 15th.
Vanderbilt, Wesleyan, Pomona, UPenn, Tufts, and Waterloo lead their respective groups. Vanderbilt, Wesleyan, and Waterloo show strong performances. Both IPA champions, Boston University and Brown, trail their groups.
Group A continues with another dominant performance by Vanderbilt. Harvey Mudd maintains their gap over Michigan and Michigan expands their lead by a margin over MIT. Boston picks up pace from Match 1 but still has ways to go to catch up to the rest of the pack.
Average: 28.33 points, Standard deviation: 12.48 points, Penalties: 0 points.
Group B continues with another strong performance by Wesleyan. Claremont McKenna moves up to second and Northwestern falls to third. Defending IPA champions Brown continues to trail the group. The team puts up a healthy number of points and closes in on Manchester. Brown is behind by a single point.
Average: 27.83 points, Standard deviation: 8.66 points, Penalties: 3 points.
Group C leads with Pomona. The team further expands their lead over Cornell who sits in second. USC plays strong fundamental poker and moves up three places to third. Oxford, NYU, and Washington University all fall a spot.
Average: 28.33 points, Standard deviation: 10.84 points, Penalties: 0 points.
Group D leads with UPenn and sees a tight competition in Match 2 scores. UPenn maintains their lead in first. UCSD, Georgia Tech, and Chicago Booth are all within a 2 point margin of each other. Chicago Booth moves up to fourth while Northeastern falls to fifth. Still many more games for all the trailing teams to take their own leads.
Average: 28.33 points, Standard deviation: 4.37 points, Penalties: 0 points.
Group E sees a large change in placements. Tufts, Carnegie Mellon, and Georgetown all rise to first, second, and third, respectively. Georgetown shifts up three places. Yale, Miami, and Victoria all fall. Yale moves from first to fourth. At the moment, wildcard picture is close between Georgetown, Yale, and Miami. Carnegie Mellon performing average in the group.
Average: 28 points, Standard deviation: 9.78 points, Penalties: 2 points.
Group F now leads with Waterloo. The team holds a healthy lead over second with 25 points. Occidental moves up to second. New South Wales falls to third. Emory not too far behind.
Average: 28.17 points, Standard deviation: 11.91 points, Penalties: 1 point.
Notable Hands
Group D, Table 3, Hand 25 (6/30/60)
Daniel Cobourn (Columbia Law) Justin Shiao (Georgia Tech) Calypso Shen (UCSD) Christopher Schober (Upenn) Aaryan Sinha (Northeastern) Ankit Pahwa (Chicago Booth)
Daniel Cobourn (SB | 2275) Justin Shiao (BB | 2224) Calypso Shen (UTG | 1271) Christopher Schober (UTG + 1 | 4870) Aaryan Sinha (CU | 104) Ankit Pahwa (BTN | 1256)
All players post an ante of 6
Cobourn posts a small blind of 30
Shiao posts a big blind of 60
Folds to Schober who raises to 138
Folds to Cobourn who calls
Shiao folds
Flop: J♥ 4♣ 7♣
Cobourn checks and Schober bets 138
Cobourn calls
Turn: J♥ 4♣ 7♣ [8♣]
Both players check
River: J♥ 4♣ 7♣ 8♣ [6♣]
Cobourn checks and Schober bets 138
Schober bets 300 and Cobourn calls
Schober shows (5♣ 5♦) and wins the pot of 1248 chips
Group D, Table 4, Hand 32 (5/25/50)
Yashika Gupta (Chicago Booth) Zach Beller (Georgia Tech) Neal Kapoor (Columbia Law) Sheldon Zhu (UCSD) Ved Rajesh (Northeastern) Conrad Crakes (UPenn)
Yashika Gupta (SB | 2350) Zach Beller (BB | 2196) Neal Kapoor (UTG | 1565) Sheldon Zhu (UTG +1 | 1636) Ved Rajesh (CU | 2455) Conrad Crakes (BTN | 1798)
All players post an ante of 5
Gupta posts a small blind of 25
Beller posts a big blind of 50
Folds to Gupta who calls
Beller checks
Flop: 6♦ K♣ A♠
Gupta checks
Beller bets 90 and Gupta calls
Turn: 6♦ K♣ A♠ [7♥]
Both players check
River: 6♦ K♣ A♠ 7♥ [A♣]
Gupta bets 300 and Beller calls
Gupta shows (A♥ A♦) and wins the pot of 910 chips
Group F, Table 4, Hand 11 (3/15/30)
Adam Mahood (Waterloo) Karlos Papa (Occidental) Charlie Welch (Harvard) Han Ru Liu (McGill) David Huang (UNSW) Erik Tkachenko (Emory)
Mahood (SB | 2304) Papa (BB | 1989) Welch (UTG | 2036) Ru (UTG +1 |1798) Huang (CU |1902) Tkachenko (BTN |1971)
All players post an ante of 3
Mahood posts a small blind of 15
Papa posts a big blind of 30
Folds to Tkachenko who raises to 66
Mahood raises to 210
Papa raises to 600
Tkachenko folds
Mahood raises to 1986
Papa calls and goes all in
Flop: 8♠ 4♦ J♣
Turn: 8♠ 4♦ J♣ [K♠]
River: 8♠ 4♦ J♣ K♠ [Q♥]
Adam shows (K♥ K♣) and wins the pot of 4,056 chips
January’s Table Leaders
| Name | Team |
| Maxwell Austin | Emory University |
| Quinn Calderone | Wesleyan University |
| Hunter Debelak | University of Michigan |
| Christopher Drew | University of Victoria |
| Jacob Fain | Wesleyan University |
| Federico Ferragamo | Georgetown University |
| Keshab Gatehouse | Vanderbilt University |
| Maxwell Guo | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Jacob Hamermesh | Occidental College |
| Jerry Han | University of Waterloo |
| Andrew Hollett | Tufts University |
| Sean Iredell | University of Southern California |
| Nicholas Johnston | University of Waterloo |
| Nathaniel Kazlow | Columbia Law School |
| Constantine Konstantinidis | Northwestern University |
| Ben Kurzman | University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
| Naail Lakhani | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Leon Lee | Cornell University |
| Justin Lenderman | University of Southern California |
| Niles Lo | Tufts University |
| Sang Park | Brown University |
| Ved Rajesh | Northeastern University |
| Shiah Sarkowsky | Claremont McKenna College |
| Christopher Schober | University of Pennsylvania |
| Joseph Shimamoto | Vanderbilt University |
| Charlie Welch | Harvard College |
| JoJo Widi | Pomona College |
| David Xu | Vanderbilt University |
| Eric Zheng | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Richard Xu Zhou | Oxford University |
Group A
| Team | Total Points | Match 2 Scores | Placement Change |
| Vanderbilt | 91 | 51 | = |
| Harvey Mudd | 65 | 28 | = |
| Michigan | 57 | 28 | = |
| MIT | 55 | 27 | = |
| Tulane | 51 | 23 | = |
| Boston University | 18 | 13 | = |
Group B
| Team | Points | Match 2 Scores | Placement Change |
| Wesleyan | 79 | 43 | = |
| Claremont McKenna | 61 | 30 | ↑+1 |
| Northwestern | 56 | 23 | ↓-1 |
| Indiana | 51 | 22 | = |
| Manchester | 45 | 19 | = |
| Brown | 44 | 30 | = |
Group C
| Team | Points | Match 2 Scores | Placement Change |
| Pomona | 90 | 37 | = |
| Cornell | 63 | 25 | = |
| USC | 57 | 45 | ↑+3 |
| Oxford | 50 | 27 | ↓-1 |
| NYU | 39 | 20 | ↓-1 |
| WUSL | 31 | 16 | ↓-1 |
Group D
| Team | Points | Match 2 Scores | Placement Change |
| UPenn | 90 | 31 | = |
| UC San Diego | 63 | 25 | = |
| Georgia Tech | 57 | 33 | = |
| Chicago Booth | 50 | 32 | ↑+1 |
| Northeastern | 39 | 27 | ↓-1 |
| Columbia Law | 31 | 22 | = |
Group E
| Team | Points | Match 2 Scores | Placement Change |
| Tufts | 71 | 36 | ↑+1 |
| Carnegie Mellon | 64 | 36 | ↑+2 |
| Georgetown | 53 | 37 | ↑+3 |
| Yale | 53 | 14 | ↓-3 |
| Miami | 50 | 20 | ↓-2 |
| Victoria | 45 | 25 | ↓-1 |
Group F
| Team | Points | Match 2 Scores | Placement Change |
| Waterloo | 88 | 48 | ↑+1 |
| Occidental | 63 | 31 | ↑+1 |
| New South Wales | 56 | 15 | ↓-2 |
| Emory | 54 | 27 | = |
| Harvard | 48 | 31 | = |
| McGill | 29 | 17 | = |
Updates
Correction: There was an error in the records for Yale and Miami points. The results have been corrected. Yale receives one point and Miami loses one point.
The IPA tournament will resume on February 4th and 5th.