IPA (2022 – 2023) Playoffs Match 1 Recap
Overview
The IPA 2022–2023 tournament resumed with the first IPA Playoffs match on April 8.
USC, Pomona, Georgia Tech and Columbia Law lead their respective groups to kick off the IPA Playoffs. Georgia Tech wins four of its five tables, and Pomona is the only top seed to lead its group.
9 seed USC leads Group A, with 1 seed Vanderbilt 11 points behind and Indiana 15 points back. Emory has a weak performance with four total points, but there are still many hands to be played in the playoff series.
Average 16.25 pts·Std. dev. 10.34·Penalties 4
2 seed Pomona leads Group B, with 10 seed Harvey Mudd 10 points behind. Yale trails Harvey Mudd by a single point, and Carnegie Mellon sits two points behind Yale.
Average 17.5 pts·Std. dev. 5.8·Penalties 0
6 seed Georgia Tech leads Group C, dominating its tables by winning four of the five games. Harvard follows 14 points behind, with Manchester and Chicago Booth 19 and 28 points behind, respectively.
Average 16.75 pts·Std. dev. 11.7·Penalties 3
Columbia Law leads Group D, dominating its tables by winning three of the five games. Oxford follows 13 points behind, with Tufts and Waterloo 16 and 18 points behind, respectively.
Average 17.25 pts·Std. dev. 8.10·Penalties 1
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 post 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) Cobourn (BU | 1403)
All players post 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 bets 226
Li raises to 523
Cobourn calls
Turn: 5♣ 3♠ 4♥ [3♦]
Li bets 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 |
| 9 | USC | 29 | 29 |
| 1 | Vanderbilt | 18 | 18 |
| 16 | Indiana | 14 | 14 |
| 8 |  Emory | 4 | 4 |
Group B
| Seed | Team | Points | Match 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 13 | Columbia Law | 29 | 29 |
| 12 |  Oxford | 16 | 16 |
| 5 |  Tufts | 13 | 13 |
| 4 | Waterloo | 11 | 11 |
Updates
The IPA tournament will resume with Playoffs Match 2 on April 15.