I am not worried about tripling up the short-stack because of how short they are. And yes, like I mentioned, being the biggest stack on the bubble was to my advantage. But I would prefer to just get this over with at this point. I was willing to risk tripling up the short stack to take the chance of busting them out and moving on. I was willing to lose the 2000 to the SB if it doubled the chances that it would bust the BB. Raising to isolate wouldn't get me anything extra here. The 1000 chips the SB has in are part of the main pot. I don't gain much by raising because I am not really changing the size of the pot the BB is going to win but I would be cutting the cards he needs to dodge in half.
There are 51,000 chips in play at this time. There isn't much more I can do to drain the remaining stacks since they're going to move all-in anyway. It's better to just get into the money... and let the three short stacks eat each other up or get eaten up when I run into a hand. If I remember right, at the start of this hand UTG had 4100 and the CO had about 5500. Obviously, these are just rounded and approximate numbers. Everyone at this table was in serious trouble with the blind increase we'd just faced. There wasn't much more "bubble" anyway.
As for the fact that he got the extra 1450, that's true. But it's less than 1xBB and he would have gotten that anyway if I couldn't beat the BB. Still, that 1450 didn't really benefit him at this point. With the relative stack sizes, and the fact that top two chop every week, it is to his advantage to have people bust out and let him get into the top two places. It was to my advantage, that I don't deny, because it did keep the pressure on the three shortest stacks, all of who were facing blinds in the upcoming couple of hands. But it was just a dumb play... the fact that I benefitted from it, overall, doesn't make it smarter for him.
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