Dennis Backhaus, dressed in an all-rubber duck suit today, just learned the hard way to trust the poker gods.

According to Backhaus, he was driving into the MGM National Harbor this morning and was behind a car with the license plate "DEFND 2A." The first flop he saw today on Day 1b then came down A-2-2.

The next hand, Backhaus actually picked up A-2 on the button but foldled to a raise from early position. The board came down J-4-3-5-X, and a player holding two kings won a pot worth more than 30,000. Backhaus, though, would've made a straight.

"Did I miss a premonition?" Backhaus wrote in a text message to some friends.

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