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...and other people join The Duke's table and dump piles of cash on the table thinking they might get to play deep stack poker with him only to find out it ain't happenin'.

And what exactly is wrong with $30K at a NL1/3 table? Sounds like a dream to me. I'd love to find one of those talked-about $100K NL1/3 tables going at Wynn where 8 players have >$10K. I'd sit with my $500 to $1000 and be the fly on the wall waiting to pick up their scraps. The variance would be brutal, but I'm fine with that.