Other's have made similar observations but I thought I'd throw in my take on it as well.
Here are tables from laptops 1 and 3. I tried to sharpen the images and adjust the contrast to bring out the details a little bit. I also fixed the perspective.
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Assuming the players aren't using the preferred seat feature it looks a whole lot like the same table.
Both tables appear to have the same number of players and the betting and button appears to be the same. Laptop 3 isn't very clear but there seems to be a lot of similarities.
Seat 9 is the button, 10 is the SB, 1 is the BB. These three players apear to have chips in front of them.
Player 1 is UTG and decided to play his hand. Looks like he has at least 1 face card.
Player in seat 8 looks like he raised over UTG as there are chips in front of him and the auto action checkboxes appear on the bottom right of player 1's screen.
Seats 4,5 and 7 appear to have folded.
On the laptop1 table action seems to be on the BB since his seat is highlighted but I can't see the same on laptop3. It might be because the image is bad and there's a lot of glare on the screen or the different theme or maybe they don't all blink at the same time.
Laptop 3 appears to be using the Slick Light theme (maybe with a different background?) and the highlights on that are pretty subtle.
Laptop 1 looks like it's using some sort of variation of hyper simple.
Laptop 5 is partially obscured and much smaller but it appears as if seats 1, 2, 4 and 5 are seated just as in laptops 1 and 3.
It would be nice if somehow PokerStars could use the time, location and information available in the photos to try and track down who these players are and find out what's really going on because this seems very suspicious and there has been a lot of collussion in the DoNs which this could certainly be. It could also be a fixed limit table as those are 10 seats as well and I understand collusion could be a problem there as well. Most likely a DoN since the seats are empty instead of having the empty seat place holder that are found in cash games.
PokerStars seems to be pretty good about identifying cheats so maybe they'll come up with something. Maybe they can filter all the DoNs played around that time (LV time?) where seats 3,6 and 7 were knocked out, UTG bet or raised and seat 8 raised UTG's bet or raise and UTG had at least one face card. That should narrow it down a bit. Then see if UTG seems to play with the same 2 people often.
A bit disappointing that a poker journalist couldn't do better than this one snapshot. Could have at least walked up behind them to take a better shot pretending to take a photo of the performer. This is the same chick that complained on Twitter that final tablists of one sunday million were inconsiderate of the poker media because they kept asking for deal numbers every hand or something like that so she had to stay up late right?