Well, there is no real precedent, and that isn't what happened.

The way they set it up dicentivizes just brute forcing it with a few thousand tries and quickly builds a fatter pot. And made this more interesting I would argue.

But then the starting amount could have been a bit higher, and the increment slower. Or there could be an increment per user (harder to track, of course). But if it could be brute-forced in a couple of thousand tries, that would be informative too, wouldn't it?