Harvard student Jeremy Warshauer came to New Haven, Connecticut, to watch his football team try to bring home the glory against Yale and he ended up grabbing a bit of glory himself.
Warshauer won the first poker tournament to take place between the Ivy League rivals. He not only won a TruePoker.com $1,000 supersatellite for a chance to win a World Series of Poker main event seat, but he made the poker standings between the two schools read like this:
Harvard, one; Yale, zero.
The tournament came down to the last two players, a Yale student and Warshauer. The points races was so tight, that the winner would be determined by the heads-up match.
About six hours after the tournament started, Warshauer ended up with all the chips and the first victory in what organizer Chris Bartley hopes is the beginning of a long line of poker tournaments between the two schools.
Bartley used a point system to determine which school came out on top. Points were given for each place a student was knocked out. The higher the player finished, the more points the player earned for his school. The points were
weighted so that Harvard, which had fewer players, got a fair shake.
The freeroll no-limit hold'em tournament took place in Yale's Davenport Hall on Friday and attracted 29 Yale students and 21 Harvard students, who were in town to watch their team play Yale. Harvard won on the gridiron, too, beating
Yale 30-24 in triple-overtime.
Card Player College was at the tournament and will be publishing an in-depth look at Yale's poker scene in an upcoming issue of Card Player College.
TruePoker.com, founded by Yale graduate Dave Gzesh, donated the supersatellite, trophies (including a "suckout" trophy), and TruePoker.com shirts and hats. Players also received a free $20 to play at TruePoker.com.
