Last year, Thomas Peebles finished runner-up to Ben Wiora in the inaugural Wisconsin State Poker Championship for $66,108. Peebles had his eyes set on making back-to-back final tables in this event, but that just came to a screeching halt.

It happened when Jason Ramos raised to 75,000 from the button and Peebles shipped all in for 530,000 from the big blind. Ramos snap-called with the and Peebles had been caught with his hand in the cookie jar with the .

The flop gave Peebles a sweat, but neither the turn nor gave him the win.

Peebles manahed to double his stack through Ramos in the very next hand, but busted to him one hand later when his failed to get there against Ramos’ .