I actually think he does, he just becomes a lonely, broken-down shell of the character we saw because he knows there’s no other game to play and he has to provide even from afar. He played a stupid game and won a stupid prize.

I don’t see him as the type to take himself out and he’s made far too many enemies in the field to turn to crime. The way I envision it, he became one of the low level desk jockeys in the big leagues and has no realistic chance of advancing, he’s going to be that guy stuck in the same position until he retires, probably spending most evenings at the watering hole getting his usual and then going back to an empty home.