The long legal battle is over, and unfortunately, Phil Ivey‘s good fortune did not extend to the highest court in the United Kingdom.

On Wednesday, Britain’s Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that the poker champion and his buddy Chen Yin Sun cheated to win £7.7 million playing a derivative of baccarat, called Punto Banco, at Crockford’s Casino in Mayfair, London in 2012.

Ivey won the money by edge sorting, which exploits a defect in the card manufacturing process to identify the face value of cards. The professional poker player insisted it was a legitimate technique, but a judge ruled in 2014 that his method can be considered cheating.

The case eventually made its way to the Court of Appeals, which voted 2:1 in favor of the casino on grounds that Ivey and his partner’s method shifted the edge to the poker pro. Undeterred, Ivey and his legal team took their appeal to the Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled that Ivey did indeed cheat at the card game.