IPA Playoffs (2022-2023) Match 1 Recap
Overview
The IPA 2022-2023 tournament resumes with the first IPA Playoff match on April 8th.
USC, Pomona, Georgia Tech, and Columba Law lead their respective groups to kick off the IPA Playoffs. Georgia Tech sweeps four of their five tables. Pomona is the only leading seed team to maintain the top placement.
Group A leads with 9-seed USC. 1-seed Vanderbilt trails with 11 points behind. Indiana trails USC by 15 points. Emory makes a weak performance with four total points. Still many hands to be played throughout the playoff series.
Average: 16.25 points, Standard deviation: 10.34 points, Penalties: 4 points.
Group B leads with 2-seed Pomona. 10-seed Harvey Mudd trails with 10 points behind. Yale trails with a single point behind Harvey Mudd. Carnegie Mellon sits with two points behind Yale.
Average: 17.5 points, Standard deviation: 5.8 points, Penalties: 0 points.
Group C leads with 6-seed Georgia Tech. The team dominates their tables by winning four of the five games. Harvard follows with 14 points behind. Manchester and Chicago Booth are 19 and 28 points behind, respectively.
Average: 16.75 points, Standard deviation: 11.7 points, Penalties: 3 points.
Group D leads with Columbia Law. The team dominates their tables by winning three of the five games. Oxford follows with 13 points behind. Tufts and Waterloo are 16 and 18 points behind, respectively.
Average: 17.25 points, Standard deviation: 8.10 points, Penalties: 1 point.
Notable Hands
Group A, Table 3, Hand 131 (10/50/100)
Joshua Stotzky (Vanderbilt) Ryan Li (USC)
Stotzky (4134 | SB) Li (3866 | BB)
All players posts an ante of 10
Stotzky posts a small blind of 50
Li posts a big blind of 100
Stotzky raises to 250
Li raises to 640
Stotzky raises to 1615
Li calls
Flop: 3♦ 2♣ 9♦
Li checks
Stotzky bets 2241
Li calls and goes all in
Stotzky (A♥ K♣) Li (J♣ J♦)
Turn: 3♦ 2♣ 9♦ [10♣]
River: 3♦ 2♣ 9♦ 10♣ [Q♦]
Li wins the pot of 7,732 chips
Group D, Table 5, Hand 25 (4/20/40)
Ioannis Stamoulis (Oxford) Brian Li (Waterloo) Henry Burns (Tufts) Dan Cobourn (Columbia Law)
Stamoulis (SB | 1966) Li (BB | 3180) Burns (UTG | 1435) Coburn (BU | 1403)
All players posts an ante of 4
Stamoulis posts a small blind of 20
Li posts a big blind of 40
Burns folds
Cobourn raises to 133
Stamoulis folds
Li calls
Flop: 5♣ 3♠ 4♥
Li checks
Cobourn raises to 226
Li raises to 523
Cobourn calls
Turn: 5♣ 3♠ 4♥ [3♦]
Li raises to 747
Cobourn calls and goes all in
Cobourn (7♥ 7♠) Li (2♣ A♣)
River: 5♣ 3♠ 4♥ 3♦ [6♦]
Cobourn wins the pot of 2,842 chips
Playoff Match 1 Table Leaders
| Name | Team |
| Zachary Beller | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Michael Bonaventura | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Daniel Cobourn | Columbia Law School |
| Thomas Dean | Vanderbilt University |
| Shrey Gupta | University of Southern California |
| Gavin Heggie | University of Manchester |
| Sean Iredell | University of Southern California |
| Neal Kapoor | Columbia Law School |
| Jonathon Kirkland | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Kevin Li | University of Waterloo |
| Ryan Li | University of Southern California |
| Michael Mathios | Indiana University |
| Edward McDonald | Columbia Law School |
| Sungho Moon | Yale University |
| Mathew Seng | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Jonathan Tam | Oxford University |
| John Wang | Carnegie Mellon University |
| JoJo Widi | Pomona College |
| Aidan Wu | Pomona College |
| Kevin Wu | Pomona College |
Group A
| Seed | Team | Points | Match 1 Scores |
| 9 | USC | 29 | 29 |
| 1 | Vanderbilt | 18 | 18 |
| 16 | Indiana | 14 | 14 |
| 8 | Emory | 4 | 4 |
Group B
| Seed | Team | Points | Match 1 Scores |
| 2 | Pomona | 26 | 26 |
| 10 | Harvey Mudd | 16 | 16 |
| 15 | Yale | 15 | 15 |
| 7 | Carnegie Mellon | 13 | 13 |
Group C
| Seed | Team | Points | Match 1 Scores |
| 6 | Georgia Tech | 32 | 32 |
| 14 | Harvard | 18 | 18 |
| 3 | Manchester | 13 | 13 |
| 11 | Chicago Booth | 4 | 4 |
Group D
| Seed | Team | Points | Match 1 Scores |
| 13 | Columbia Law | 29 | 29 |
| 12 | Oxford | 16 | 16 |
| 5 | Tufts | 13 | 13 |
| 4 | Waterloo | 11 | 11 |
Updates
The IPA tournament will resume with Playoff Match 2 on April 15th.