Check it Down fool

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I can not believe that there are players who try to bluff,when there is a allin short stack. Is not the object of a mtt to out last all other players? To place as high a possible. To take out the opponent. When you don't have the nutts to win and there is a all in short stack, please do yourself the favor of checking it down. You can give the short stack the chips by raising other players out of the pot,which in turn puts you placing lower, Most of the time :confused:
 
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There is a long & interesting thread on this subject in the Golden Archives, give it a read, good stuff.
Welcome to the forum.
 
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There are very many reasons why 'check it down' will not be +$EV or +cEV and would be the wrong play. Evaluate each situation on it's own merit, stack sizes, players left, payout structure, etc. and if checking it down is -EV then don't.
 
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I can not believe that there are players who try to bluff,when there is a allin short stack. Is not the object of a mtt to out last all other players? To place as high a possible. To take out the opponent. When you don't have the nutts to win and there is a all in short stack, please do yourself the favor of checking it down. You can give the short stack the chips by raising other players out of the pot,which in turn puts you placing lower, Most of the time :confused:

aim of the tournament is to win all the chips, its pretty hard to outlast everyone without all the chips
 
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depending on the chip stacks I would rather let a lowstack triple up then let them go to another power house
 
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everybody has different strategies, dude. Try not to let things like that get you upset/on tilt, poker is a complex game :)
 
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its only dumb if there is a dry sidepot and its a satty bubble, otherwise there are a ton of reasons why it can be ok
 
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It's situation-dependent. When checking down is in your best self-interest, that what you should do. But there are some situations where it's not automatically in your best interest. It was some time ago, but I remember Daniel Negreanu writing something to this effect. Might still be on the web somewhere if anyone is interested enough to look for it.
 
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If the pot in the middle is valuable to the player, he's increasing he's chances of winning, and if it's an mtt i don't think it's stupid at all, but if it's a stt when there are 6 players 5 are paid that's wrong
 
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