Workflow Opportunity to Estimate

I am trying to create a workflow that will create an alert to sales reps when an opportunity has not turned into a estimate after three days.
Basically I have three states.

Entry State:  Submit Record,  Opportunity, On Create
State 2:Opportunity is Closed -> Exit state
State 3:Opportunity is Open -> Action

Transition into state 2 : Condition -> {entitystatus.id}!=2, blank trigger     # (2 = in progress)
Transition into state 3 : Condition -> {entitystatus.id}=2, scheduled trigger -> 3 days.

So the workflow exist pretty much, but is going on is the entitystatus.id is null. No matter what. If i create an estimate, don't it just remain NULL.  I tested this by doing {entitystatus.id} is NULL and {entitystatus.id} is not NULL.