I was eating at the indian resturant 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 at my table on my right walks past me with Jennifer Tilly and at the last second before they were out the door, I yelled, "Hey Phil, when does the tourney start back up?", he replies we with "We have 4 more minutes kid!" In a frezny I ask for my check leave my cc tell them to pack up the food and I 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 my 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 you can fold. Well with the pot odds he had to call. At this point so many things ran through my mind before they flopped the cards. So many mixed feeling 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 werent 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. And then he out flops, and I am in total shock, he was in total shock, I could help myself but sit there and laugh for at least 2 minutes 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! I told her the whole story of how the hand went down and then she begins to tell me a story, and I have to say the way Phil and her tell stories it is amazing how similar their personalities are. She was like wow, "That 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 you are crashing head on into a semi truck! 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!













