Awesome story!
It reminds me...about 4 years ago, at my brothers house in a town about an hour north of Chicago, there was an adjacent property that backed up to his.
We were a little older, but the guy that lived in that adjacent house and his 2 roommates were all younger, 21-24ish...occasionally they would stop by and have some beers, but I never got to know them very well.
Well, a few months went by and one day I showed up at my brothers and realized that those guys had moved out, and the place was being foreclosed.
When I asked my brother what happened, he said "I dunno, all I heard is that they lost all their money playing a video game", but he never remembered anyone mentioning the name of the video game. (my brother wasn't even aware that this game existed at the time, because I never even told him I played til I showed him the Eomon ATH and the comic years later, and yes, even though he thought it was awesome he still thinks I am a huge nerd
)
Needless to say, our conversations before they left never got around to video games...I wish they did...and I always wondered what it was. I was never able to figure out what game they played....it could have been poker....or even online stocks, but the fact that the rumor around the neighborhood said they lost all their money to a
video game makes me wonder to this day if it was EU.
I have never been able to ask them, because none of us ever got phone number or a forwarding address for them, and we haven't seen them around town since then either.