The Piranha Poker Team is an entity made up of aspiring amateur poker players who compete against each other for points throughout the year via a series of live multi-table No Limit Hold’em tournaments held all over the Bay Area. At the end of the season, the team sends its highest point scorers to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas (all expenses paid), where they compete in a $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em bracelet tournament. Any prize money generated by the team’s representatives at the WSOP is split in half -- 50% of it belonging to the player who placed in the money at the WSOP, and the other 50% split evenly among all other Piranha Poker Team members.

The team’s main goals include:

• Improving each other’s poker skills through fair competition, hand and tournament discussions, and other relevant knowledge sharing
  
  
• Providing practice that is applicable to WSOP events by creating a tournament environment that is similar to the WSOP in rules, blinds structure, and payouts
  
  
• Sending our best players to a WSOP event and potentially cashing in this event, thereby creating a financial return on every team member’s investment