The Dumbest Bet Ever and the Bellagio Main Event

I have to tell everyone about the dumbest bet ever made by me and quite possibly the entire human race, because with you help of making fun of me I hope to learn a lesson. During the 3K prelim at the Bellagio, Devilfish was at my table with a half stack talking about how he is still going to win. I told him he was not and gave him a line of 25 to 1. He accepted and 10 minutes later he was out the door and I had 1K in my pocket. The next day he was playing 25/50 NL with me and he was losing. He asked me to set a line for him in the 10K PLO. I imagined that the event was going to get 50-60 people and knowing he is a good omaha player I said 40-1. He jumped all over it before I realized that I committed myself to the bet. To make matters worse he told me he wanted another 1K at 35-1....and I accepted. At this point I am feeling dumb, but not horrible. I start to ask people I thought would play the event if they were and all I heard was a resounding "no". I started to get worried so I of course played the event myself. I was one of 16 people who showed up to play. I am feeling dumb now, but the field is tough and I atleast have some control since I am in the tourny. On the first hand Devilfish doubles up, and then on the 8th hand I lose half my stack with top set vs a wrap. At this point I am freaking out a bit. I go out in 14th place while Devilfish finishes the night with the starting stack. With only six people remaining I can barely sleep. I of course have to come down and sweat the final table. With 4 people left Devilfish is the chip lead or tied for the chiplead. I start to think how hard I worked for 75K and how much it'll hurt. Somehow I get a text that Ted Lawson busted him while I was blowing off steam. I had to confirm it, as many people would find it funny to mess with a desperate man. It was true and I was clean. Not only was the line awful I gave him, but risking that much money just to win 2K might be the dumber end. Even if I gave him 11 to one its a dumb bet because I dont want to risk losing 22K for only 2K. And that is why I am quite possibly the dumbest man ever.
On to poker, I played day one of the Bellagio Main Event. I had Lee Watkinson, Evan McNiff, David Oppenhiem, and Abe Moressi at my table. I was coolered early when I flopped 3 eights and bet all three streets heavy only to see Oppenhiem hit the hidden end of his combo draw on the turn. I managed to chip up from 20K (starting stack was 60K) up to 40K by being very aggresive. Then in the last level of the night (300/600 50ante), Oppenhiem limped from the hijack and McNiff raised to 2400 on the button. I looked down at two wonderful kings and made it 7800. Oppenhien tanked for 3 second and reraised all in. McNiff folded and had to tank for a good 20 seconds before I called off. He showed 99 and the board ran out dry. The pot pushed me over 85K where I ended the night. Day 2 is today so hopefully I will have some great news tommorrow.
On a personal note, yesterday was my 3 year anniversary with Morgan. She was cool enough not to care about me playing in the tourny as long as we celebrated afterwards. She has always been supportive of me no matter what. Thanks Morgan.

Justin "robert07" Young