If the person who tops the list completes with a bigger value then the consecutive members are also supposed to wager big
Me, I don't see a lot of connection here
Though I understand why you come to think so. You implicitly, and probably even without fully realizing it, assume that everyone entering the heat (i.e. aiming to get to the list and get some dough in return) goes for the first place. But that's not necessarily so
And if it is not so, there is no valid reason either to assume that anyone who is not specifically targeting the top position of the list would wager more just because the top player wagers big. Technically, if you wanted to make it into the top 10, you would be tracking the lower bounds of that range, not the wagered amount of the highest roller