The night before leaving Canada for the World Series of Poker Tyler Bonkowski tweeted that he didn’t know wether to pack his book-bag with clothes or cereal, he went with his PS3 instead. After defeating Brandon Demes in the $3,000 Limit Hold’em event early Saturday morning he can now go and buy all the cereal that he wants, and some extra luggage to haul it around if he chooses.

“That’s huge”, said Bonkowski when asked what it meant to win the bracelet. “It was all I could think about last night.”

Jeff Shulman became the first casualty of the final table when his A2 failed to hold against Casey McCarrel‘s J8. Following him was Ron Burke who battled with the short stack for as long as possible, managing one double before he was dealt AJ. On an AQ54 board he and Andrew Brongo raised each other until Burke was all-in. Brongo held A4 only needing to avoid any queen, jack, or five on the river to win the hand and eliminate Burke. The 8 river was not one of the cards that Burke needed, eliminating him in 8th place for $24,095.

McCarrel was only able to carry the chips he got from the Shulman elimination so far. Getting dealt TT, McCarrel got his remaining chips in on a J632 board, only to find himself drawing dead against Shawn Keller‘s 45 to end his day in seventh place.

He was followed by Mitch Schock, who was down to his last 5,000 before quintupling up when his A5 out flopped Keller’s pocket queens. After increasing his stack to 25,000, Schock was in the big blind for 20,000 the next hand. With only 5,000 left he once again moved his last 5,000 chip to the middle, holding J6. This time he was in against Tyler Bonkowski’s pocket aces and was unable to survive the all in, eliminating Schock in sixth place. That is two spots better than earlier in the week, though, when he final tabled the $1,500 Limit Hold’em.

Matt Sterling exited next when he stuck his remaining stack in with T9 and got called by the pocket queens of Borngo. Unable to catch any piece of the flop or turn, the river card was unneeded and Sterling was eliminated. Keller exited the tournament next when his J8 could not catch a club on the river on a board of AQ33 against Demes’ K3.

The next elimination came when Borngo and Demes got involved in a big pot on an AAT72 board. After a four bet and all-in, Borngo saw the bad news as his A7 was not good enough to beat Demes AT.

At the start of the heads-up battle, the two players were essentially even with only a 20,000 chip difference. The battle between the two went back and forth as Demes had Bonkowski down to his final 250,000 before they once again got even. It was then Bonkowski’s chance to take a 2-1 lead before letting Demes draw things back to even. Bonkowski was not going to give in and once again took the lead, this time getting Demes down to under 500,000. Bonkowski amped the pressure up and finally got Demes all-in on a T655 board. Demes held KQ against Bonkowski’s KT, which was good for the lead. The 8 river meant everything to Bonkowski who won his first bracelet and $220,817.

Here are the official payouts for the $3,000 Limit Hold’em:

1st: Tyler Bonkowski – $220,817
2nd: Brandon Demes – $136,419
3rd: Andrew Brongo – $100,198
4th: Shawn Keller – $74,171
5th: Matt Sterling – $55,338
6th: Mitch Schock – $41,621
7th: Casey McCarrel – $31,547
8th: Ron Burke – $24,095
9th: Jeff Shulman – $18,547

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