TOC Day 0: The Golden Horseshoe

I played in the evening tournament, $125 limit hold'em with a $100 rebuy. Nothing particularly remarkable, though later my table broke and I got assigned to a new table on the left of Chris "Jesus" Ferguson.

"Oh, just great, they moved me to the left of the world champion."
"I have more bad news for you."
"What's that?"
"I have the small blind, so you have the big blind."

An orbit or two later, all folded to our blinds, and Jesus folded. I stood up, did the double overhead pump and said "YES! I won a hand against the world champion!" The woman on our right thought that was cute.

Some time later Jesus raised UTG and I reraised with a big pair. Unfortunately he flopped a set and I didn't believe him so I was crippled. I busted out shortly thereafter.

Later that night, someone Bill was backing chopped up 2nd/3rd in the $1k NLHE event in the Orleans Open for something like $50,000. Apparently this caused one Bay Area expert player to remark on how everyone Bill backs seems to have a golden horseshoe stuck up their you-know-where. Portent #2?