History

The concept for this team was created in 2006, masterminded by Ed Sandoval. In its first season, which concluded with the June 2007 World Series of Poker, the team had 21 players and was able to send its top three finishers to Las Vegas to compete in the WSOP. For the second season, the team‘s roster expanded to 33 players, the top 6 of which were sent to Las Vegas to compete in Event 49 ($1,500 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em) of the 2008 WSOP. One of the team’s representatives, Brad Jensen, finished in the money at the WSOP, placing 75th in a field of approximately 2,700 players. Brad won a cash prize of a little over $6,300, half of which was split amongst all Piranha Poker Team members. The team sent eight players to the World Series of Poker in June 2009 after reaching a full member headcount of 41 during the recently finished Season 3. Four of the eight members cashed in a tournament where only 10% of all players came in the money. These four brought in more than $13,000 dollars in prize money. This was a tremendous accomplishment for the Piranha Poker Team. The organization’s recent success has allowed us to expand the tournament sizes to a maximum of 60 players per tournament, which should result in further WSOP prize packages awarded to next season’s top point scorers.

Edward Sandoval, the original founder of the Piranha Poker Team

Brad Jensen, the author of Piranha Poker Team’s first WSOP cash