When I barely missed the money at the
wsop back in the day, I was so pissed I decided to stay up until I won back my money for my entire trip. That included food, hotel, buy-in, spending money, everything. I almost had it pretty quickly at the cash game tables until I lost two whole cash game buy-ins in a row to the same lucky lady (won't bore you with that ridiculousness). Nonetheless, it ended up taking me 3 full days of straight playing to finally get my money back. When I did I went and had a monster steak at some fancy restaurant in one of the
casinos with a giant glass of wine, bought souvenirs for friends and family, and flew back first class. In the end I won a great memory.