I am pretty sure there will be whales coming in at the last second but yoloer seems like gone for the past few rounds. He played in the first few rounds but then he probably decided that it doesn't worth it and took off, otherwise he was actually finishing at the top but then he started to get competition and that destroys all the "play bare minimum to be top and get paid" method when you have people trying to gamble more than you and get to top.
It is of course very difficult to calculate the real average house edge when you calculate the reward as well.
Not everyone gets the same reward and not everyone gambles the same level on each contest but there is really one truth about this contest and that is the fact that it drops the house edge and that is very cool.
this contest was pretty anticlimatic - no real fight for the top spot and Rodolman took it easily with just 3.9 btc wagered
can't see his stats , but pretty sure this was a profitable run , unless he played very risky
but this guy is not new
saw him in the last contests top spots usually
anyways , was fun for me I managed to place high in the table with a relatively small bankroll , total around 300k satoshi
and managed a decent profit + the prize money , very happy about it
It is probably due to the weekends as the last day of the contest where most whales were spending their time out of gambling place.
Perhaps most whales where spending their time and money for other activities in real life so they did not come at windice for the contest.
Wagering almost 4btc and won 0.1 on the contest is obviously profitable if he did manage it correctly.
By the way congrats for you as you managed to win plus the winning prize on the contest.
on weekends the betting volumes are higher usually , so I don't think it is because of the timing
if I want to participate , I would find time in three days to do so
I was extremely busy during the contest , but still managed to leave my autobet running only to check it from time to time
so if there is a will , there is a way , the problem is not in the lack of time but in the lack of money
the previous contests saw at least 4-5 bettors duking it out for the tops spot , this time there was only one contender and he took the prize home