I had a thought about all of these private loans that are made between the high-stakes players.
I think Eli said he was owed about $2 million. But, as he said, this is (or was) obviously private information.
For the purpose of this post, assume Eli is telling the truth about being owed $2 million. And that these kinds of private debts are common among the high stakes players.
How many other players have debts and are owed too?
If a trusted third party was to gather all of this information, then a lot of these debts might be able to be cancelled/reduced, as A might owe B and B might owe C and C might owe A, but all of this is private, so they can't cancel/reduce the debts and loans.
Obviously the loan/debt database would extend will into the alphabet and beyond, and not just A, B and C!