they are few and far between, but there are times -- actually I brought this point up fairly recently in another thread -- I'll paste it here for others to discuss
"For example blinds are 100/200 average stack is 5000, you have 6000 and Player As all in is 1800 (not unreasonable 9x BB means almost any raise is a push). You call with AKs as does another player with ??. There is now 27 BBs (5400 chips) in this pot, you figure your all in opponent to have 2 big cards (obviously not as big as yours), however you feel that your other opponent who called this all in may have a mid PP. A bet may get your opponent who isnt all in to fold a PP below the board (bc *obviously* he must be beat if you bet), and then have you winning the showdown with the all in player with a high card (or if you hit on a later street)
While taking this risk of not eliminating the player, you also take a chance of getting the 3rd opponent with a better hand out and giving you a 5400 pot, almost doubling your stack and making you amoungst the chip leaders now."
More times then not however it is foolish. especially when on the bubble
In the instance that Defendant mentioned, this was definately NOT one of those times that it was smart (although it wound up that it didnt matter)
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