Wouldnt matter if you up it to $25000, you would still get 8000+ people in there as you can easily find enough people willing to stump up for online qualifiers and pretty much all the recognisable pros are comped in by their sponsors. If you want to up the ante try convincing people like stars and fulltilt not to run so many online qualifiers. But i think your chances are about as good as King Canute trying to turn back the tide.

Regards

Andy