I was eating at the Indian Restaurant and thought I had a 90 minute break like it is for Day 1. My food was not out yet, and I had 36 minutes to get back to the tourney. Phil Laak who was sitting on my right at my table for the tournament. Guess who walks right past me with Jennifer Tilly? Coincidentally at the same restaurant, Phil Laak!!!!.... and at the last second before they were out the door, I yelled, "Hey Phil, when does the tourney start back up?", he replies to me, "We have 4 more minutes kid!" In a frenzy I ask for my check leave my cc and my girl, and tell them to pack up the food. I ferociously start running through the Rio to get there in time. I folded a big hand right before break and left myself with 74k, the blinds where going to be 5k-10k so I had 5 rounds left. Before I get to the tourney room I pass by Phil and Tilly and start walking with him. Phil starts going off about how there was a 28 percent chance he could have left the restaurant on the other side and I would have never seen him. I then tell him I only have 74k chips left and if I hadn't seen him I would have been blinded off. He replies, "Wow seeing me has to be worth at least 8k of plus EV, then says maybe even 100k +EV!" We have 1 minute left and decide to run to the table so we don't miss the first hand. We both instantly sit down right before our hands can be declared dead. He is UTG and raises it up to 26k. I look down at 10-10 and tell Phil this is so fucked up in so many ways, I have a big hand, and told him to please fold. Well with the pot odds he had to call and showed Q8 clubs. At this point so many things ran through my mind before they flopped the cards. So many mixed feelings I had about the whole situation, and to top it off I had to pick up a big hand vs the same guy who if it weren't for him I would still be eating and getting blinded off, and now I am in a situation where I am 75-25 for him to ship me 74k and double me up. Then he out flops me with the board showing Q22, and I am in total shock, he was in total shock! I couldn't help myself but sit there and laugh for at least 2 minutes after the hand ended before I could get up from the table. I went and cashed out and on the way out to my car....Who do I run it to? Jennifer Tilly again! I told her the whole story of how Phil knocked me out the first hand. She begins to tell me an analogy , and I have to say the way Phil and her tell stories it is amazing how similar their personalities are. Just like walking in the hallway before the hand, it was like talking to to Phil Laak all over again. She was like,"Wow, that is like when you are driving and you look behind in your rear view mirror and you see a 10 car pile up!" She was close, I realized my situation was more like I was driving in my car and I see in my rear view mirror a 10 car pile up, only to look up to see I was heading straight into a semi truck pile up! Anyway the moral of the story is I was drawing dead no matter what happened. How sick. I just need to say it a few more times, I am in complete shock, sick, sick, sick, sick! Phil if this is your destiny to your first bracelet so you can be tied with Jennifer, I am glad to be a part of it. And don't hesitate to ship me a percent or two in this vortex web of the butterfly effect!

Much Love

Dustin "Shouldhavewin" Woolf