The best thing about playing €100Ks is probably having €100K. Or, if someone doesn't have €100K but is playing a €100K, he or she at least has a backer who has €100K, making them eligible to win several million in prize money.

With that out of the way, there's another, more peripheral benefit to playing €100Ks that probably doesn't spring to mind for most people thinking about these events: the ability to affect change in the fundamental structure of a tournament.

If a player were to call over a tournament supervisor in the €1K EPT National here at 2018 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT, for example, and argue that some rule governing the tournament should be changed, what would likely happen?

The exact response to the request would probably vary based on the exact person who made his or her way over, but the chances of actually getting something altered would probably be close to zero.

In the €100K Super High Roller, on the other hand, things might actually get done.

First the players requested a change with the time banks chips. Time bank chips have been a staple of poker tournaments using an action timer for several years, as there will always be decisions that take longer than the allotted per-decision bank, usually 30 seconds.

The exact use of the time chips has changed from operator to operator and event to event, but the players here seemed to have requested more 30-second extensions. They argued that the longer the tournament went on, the more extensions a player should have.

Staff seemed to think this was a fairly easy request to accommodate, and after clearing it with all of the players, everyone will start with six extensions and two more will be even to each player when registration closes and then two more when the money is reached.

A thornier issue came up after a few players started to hit the rail, beginning with Isaac Haxton and followed by Ahadpur Khangah. Both players reentered, but that meant they were on their last shells with this year's structure. In the past, the event has featured unlimited reentry.

Bryn Kenney, Daniel Dvoress and PokerStars Team Pro Igor Kurganov all agreed that unlimited reentry is the better format for this event. They requested to speak with a supervisor.

"There is no reason for this not to be unlimited reentry," Kenney said. "What if everyone agrees?"

"I think it's a surprise to most people," Kurganov added.

"I'm afraid it's too late, but I will let someone know," was the supervisor's response.

With the issue escalated, another tournament director explained the situation to the best of his understanding. He explained that it wasn't his decision or his structure. To the best of his understanding, a "small number" of players complained about the format and the operations team had done some research.

"The number of players who reentered more than once was very small," he said.

Thus, they didn't see much harm in limiting the reentries. However, with deep-pocketed players like Haxton and Khangah possibly ready to bolster the prize pool in the event they busted again — and both players have since lost their stacks again — the players left in the event see an opportunity to juice things up further being blocked off.

Furthermore, they suspected the ones taking issue are players not even participating in this field.

"It's the two Daniels," someone said. "Daniel Negreanu and Dan Shak. They aren't even playing this event."

The players requesting the change pushed for a silent vote, adding they'd drop it if support wasn't unanimous.

A couple of hours later, the tournament staff paused the clock and announced the vote was on. Everyone was to submit a card, red or black. The staff would collect the cards and reveal the tally. Only a unanimous vote, all black cards, would mean unlimited reentry.

As it happened, that's exactly how the vote went down. The remaining 21 players voted to allow the unlimited reentry. The tournament director stressed the change was for this tournament only.

Moments later, Haxton strolled to the registration table.

"Hello again," he said with a smile.