Losing 17k, live poker, and Batman ldo

So lets get the shitty stuff out of the way first.  I had 17k in pending transactions on quicktender/usemywallet which is now all gone because the site got its accounts seized and it doesn't look like we/ me will get our money back from what their e-mail said.  So i am pretty bummed about that.  It is like half my roll so bleh so gay.  I really don't know what I am going to do right now, have been playing a little PLO on the merge network but I haven't really committed to grinding yet. If I do it will most likely be the MTT grind with PLO added, although I could be coaxed into an almost full time PLO grind.
Before I found out about being out 17k though I was at Turning Stone for the East Coast Poker Championships with Reasons14.  I played a little 2/5 cash and was probably stuck like 1.5k from that, but I chopped a $100 prelim tourney HU with my boy Matt who I had met earlier on in the trip for like 2.8k, cashed the $350 on friday and final tabled the main on saturday which was a $1650.  Only 74 people played and 10(the final table) got paid.  I ended up getting 10th with AQ<ATs :(.
To release some steam me, Reasons14, Matt, and another kid that was staying with us, Brady went to the arcade and gambled.  It turns out I am a huge arcade fish and I lost about $250 in assorted games like air hockey and this stupid motorcycle racing game.  I had a few extra quarters so i went over to the claw and dropped a few in.  On my first try I got this pink bear in the grips of the claw.  I get excited and see that not only did grab the bear, but the cape of batman as well.  I was celebrating like crazy as batman is my favorite superhero+ my stars avatar.  Just as the crane was about to get over the edge  it lost batman leaving him hanging on the edge but dropping the bear.  I told my friends i was locked in to getting batman no matter what.  I try a few more times, but I ended up pushing him further and further down.  Suddenly I was $25 in and there was no end in sight.  Batman was stuck between these two footballs.  To make matters worse you could not rotate the actual claw, so there was a lot of luck involved in getting the right angle.  I was visably tilted, and buying quarters in $10s.  I drop two complete bricks and swear.  My friends are making fun of me.  The next try, which by my count made $28 worth of trys, I get the claw into a position I like,  I press the button and it drops.  This time it was rotated just right to where it missed the two plastic footballs and wrapped itself around batman.  I held my breath, it could just be another in a line of slowrolls that had occured over the claw session.  The claw clamped and started to rise, and as it did, batman rose with it.  I breathed a sigh of relief and held my hands up in the air.  I had done it.  I figured this is what the winner of the main event will feel like later tonight when he ships it.  My friends were going nuts as the claw dropped batman into the chute.  I reached in and held him up.  Better than a bracelet imo.
Peace,
jshilling09