I have just been watching people play but I have been missing some of the whales that occasionally come out of the waters to play
Its just sometimes fun for me to watch whales play with amounts of money that I
a) dont have
b) would never gamble with
Yeah, we do not gamble with that kind of money right now because we do not have it, but believe me if you had the type of money they have, you would probably gamble with it as well. Just because someone gambled with let's say 1000 bitcoins as their bankroll, doesn't mean they have 1001 bitcoins, that means they probably have like 20-30 thousand bitcoins maybe even more.
There is also a legal part of it as well, if you want to cash that out to dollars you would have to pay so much taxes and it would take weeks before you are out in the clear without any work, trying to explain "I had bitcoins and now I cashed it out so I want to pay its taxes" takes a long time. Long story short after a while people just get bored of the situation and gamble a small portion of it like 3-5% of it. If I had 30+ thousand bitcoins, I would totally gamble with 1000 of them as well.