The action is super hot during these final days of the summer season with the 2009 World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP). For fans of online casinos and poker rooms, the adventure just doesn’t get much more thrilling than this. The internet casino poker room that is leading the way in terms of bringing you and the rest of the loyal legions of gamblers into the action is none other than PokerStars.com. This online poker room is hosting some tremendously exciting no-limit Texas Hold’em that has already brought in some 11,131 different contenders who will be competing for the top prize.

With so many fans of online casinos and poker rooms in the running for the top prizes, you better believe that the prize pool has grown to impressive heights. Right now it is estimated at more than $2.25 million. That is not the kind of quantity of cash that anybody in their right minds could possibly ignore. And why would anybody even want to try when the casino poker action is this fun and entertaining? The buy-in for this particular tournament over at PokerStars.com is set at $215.

The top prize is slated to be $303,876. This last time it was a Slovakian player who managed to come out on top and surprise everyone with his performance. The contest took more than 20 hours to unfold and when everything was said and done, the winner had definitely earned some serious bragging rights for getting the better of his rivals. This quantity of cash is not typically up for grabs too often in the realm of online casino and poker gambling sites so this was quite the event that garnered an awful lot of attention for Poker Stars.