Sounds to me like you're focusing on the business of winning and not on the reason everyone else in the game is playing.
That's not a criticism - you're in it to make money - but it is an explanation.
I think it was the few players who organise it, do so to make money. I do not play for a living, I have a full time job. For context all the players in the game have been playing for over a decade. The few who orgainse it play for a income.