Speculating to Accumulate
Perhaps a partial reason why this small but perfectly formed field of hi rollers might be happier than usual to gamble it up in the first half of the day is that only four places are being paid, shown onscreen every few seconds:
1st: €290,000
2nd: €120,000
3rd: €40,000
4th: €25,262
Making the final eight with a big stack may be the difference between a non-paying final table and over a quarter of a million Euro...