I would REALLY love to find a way to increase the stakes above the limit of 1k, that's just boring and too slow. I want to waste all of my money in one fell swoop. Is there any possible way to increase the maximum threshold?

That's there for balance reasons. Try different ways of earning money

先生，你不需要賭博，像我一樣投資股票市場，一天就可以進帳五十萬美金，只有機遇 沒有巧合