Yoo Choi had a secret gambling addiction that led to her suicide, according to her husband Mark Dawson
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Canada - casinos need to do more to help addicted gamblers, says a man whose wife killed herself after running up more than a $100,000 in debt at a downtown Vancouver casino.Yoo Choi was a second-generation Korean-Canadian from Camrose, Alta., who made her mark in Vancouver as the fun-loving owner of the once-popular Velvet Café on Broadway.
But according to her husband Mark Dawson, Choi had a secret and compulsive gambling habit which she battled for years to kick.- After eventually racking up $150,000 in debt, playing much of the time at Vancouver's Edgewater Casino, Choi registered herself in the casino's voluntary exclusion program.
- She got counselling as she struggled with her addiction, and her husband thought she was in the clear.
- Then on the night of June 16, she called him to apologize because she had started to gamble again, and then she disappeared. Twenty-six days later her body was found floating in Lynn Canyon on Vancouver's North Shore.
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