I sincerely hope this happens for you dude its deffo your bag, your well over due a bit of good life karma chap!
Don't give up hope, Para... if it's meant to be, you'll get the call soon. I'll keep my fingers crossed too. Hopefully, if enough of us here on TLB do that we'll 'send him the vibe'!
If you kind find more of that money you don't have you could go back to the pub on the same day/time. Maybe he is a regular ?