Online casino gambling has become extremely profitable and competitive at the moment so that the gambling industry hasn’t only expanded globally, but also offers international and world tournaments. The latest tournament that is drawing global attention and excitement in the online gambling industry is the forthcoming World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) held by Poker Stars. Poker Stars is the world’s leading poker gambling site in terms of the amount of simultaneous and daily players. Because the site keeps on expanding, Poker Stars decided to launch a global Poker Championship for the online poker gambling community as a way to bring all the best in the globe to compete for parts of a gigantic prize pool.

This is its 7th season of WCOOP and it is at the end of this month. A big poker championship is always exciting event for the online gambling industry. At this time Poker Stars is running lot of qualifiers according to which they send some poker gamblers to the event with no buy-in. The WCOOP has steadily grown over the past 7 years and now it is held once a year, growing in the quantity of online poker gamblers as well as the minimum prize pool which is available for a number of events.

This year WCOOP is held in the last weeks of September and it leads up to the much anticipated main event. The main event that lasts for two day will crown the new WCOOP online poker winning gambler on 22 September, 2008. At the moment Poker Stars holds satellite and qualifying tournaments.

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