Poker players young and old all around the world are sitting down at their desks and powering up their computers this month, as the poker action is getting hot on Full Tilt Poker. The nineteenth Full Tilt Online Poker Series is in full swing, and with serious amounts of prize money up for grabs it should be no surprise to hear that it’s receiving a great response. Event 12 played out late this week, and it was michigan091 who had what it takes to win the tournament.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS as it is more commonly known, is a series of poker tournaments which is hosted on Full Tilt roughly every three months. FTOPS has been running for years, and we are currently up to the nineteenth series, with the combined guaranteed prize pools and the number and variety of events growing with each series. This current FTOPS XIX has a staggering 45 events and the combined guaranteed prize pool of FTOPS XIX and MiniFTOPS XIX exceeds $30 Million.

Event 12 was a Rush Super Turbo tournament, which is pretty much as fast as it gets. Rush Poker is an awesome innovation by Full Tilt Poker which means that as soon as you fold your hand you’re shifted to a new table with a new hand, so there’s never a break in the action. Super turbo means that the blinds increase at a fast rate, meaning that the action is intense as there’s simply no time to wait around for monster hands. 1,726 people turned up for the $207 + $9 tournament, which generated a prize pool of $357,282 with a first place prize of $73,600.09.

The entire tournament took less than two hours from start to finish, which perhaps goes some way to explaining why even after players started dropping like flies from the final table no agreement on a chop was made. This turned out to be the right decision for michigan091 of New Jersey who, despite being relatively unknown in the poker world, battled through the entire field to ship the tournament and claim the impressive first place prize of $73,600.09. If you want to follow in his footsteps, FTOPS XIX still has many more events on offer, so check out a full schedule and join in on the fun.