TD Jack McClelland is letting the players vote on the prizepool, letting them choose between paying 9 or 10 places, 6 places, or keeping it as winner-take-all.
In the first round of voting, the top two vote-getters were paying 9 places or 6 places, so there will be a runoff. Paying 9 or 10 players received 57% of the first round vote, so I expect that the prizepool will reach nine places.
If that's the case, there would be a little less than $500,000 for first, and it would drop from there. More information is available in the live updates at WorldPokerTour.com:
http://www.worldpokertour.com/tournament/?x=updatesnews