UCLA Wins Poker Match Against USCSecond Intercollegiate Poker Match Takes Place |
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A poker team representing UCLA's Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society beat a team representing USC in front of about 35 spectators at the Kerckhoff Grand Salon near UCLA last week.
Five players from each team played a best-of-three series of heads-up matches, and three of UCLA's players beat three of USC's players to capture the match. The winners were Igor Gampel, John Kennelly, and Michael Shinzaki.
This was the second intercollegiate poker match that GPSTS has sponsored. The first took place between Harvard and Yale in mid-November, and Harvard beat Yale three matches to two.
Annie Duke was also on hand to talk poker before the match, and she stuck around to watch the college students battle it out. These matches are a precursor to a national collegiate team heads-up tournament that the GPSTS plans to host in March. It hopes to have at least 32 teams in the event.
The GPSTS has been holding events at colleges everywhere since it was formed in August. Its slate of spring events is still being worked out, and should be released shortly.
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