PP 10+1. Bubble, Is this the wrong play?

[vqc]

#Game No : 3081466090
***** Hand History for Game 3081466090 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:17652374 Level:8 Blinds(200/400) - Wednesday, November 23, 05:01:39 EDT 2005
Table Table 67344 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 10: IModFTR ( $3044 )
Seat 2: SIMO179 ( $2980 )
Seat 6: Just_Bad_Luc ( $332 )
Seat 8: EEEasyMoney ( $1644 )
Trny:17652374 Level:8
Blinds(200/400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to IModFTR [ Ah 4c ]
SIMO179 folds.
Just_Bad_Luc is all-In [332]
EEEasyMoney calls [200].
IModFTR is all-In [2644]

Is it?
Should I have just checked it down?
I didnt think so, EEEasyMoney thought toher wise.

[arkana]

Checking it down increases the odds of knocking out the shortstack but this isn't a satellite and I think being the bigstack on the bubble is a powerful position where you can pick up lots of chips so your main priority isn't making the money its accumulating chips so I think its the right play (if you can get SB to fold). Shortie only had 330 so you are getting at least 140 back and you still have a chance of ending up with the best hand. Plus you dont give SB a chance to win all that money and get closer in chips to you, worse case is shortie triples up (and still has a little less than the SB) and you still have more chips than both of them. The correct play for the SB was to push IMO.

[vqc]

Checking it down increases the odds of knocking out the shortstack but this isn't a satellite and I think being the bigstack on the bubble is a powerful position where you can pick up lots of chips so your main priority isn't making the money its accumulating chips so I think its the right play (if you can get SB to fold). Shortie only had 330 so you are getting at least 140 back and you still have a chance of ending up with the best hand. Plus you dont give SB a chance to win all that money and get closer in chips to you, worse case is shortie triples up (and still has a little less than the SB) and you still have more chips than both of them. The correct play for the SB was to push IMO.

Ya he limped
and i thought about all those conversations about how limping here is exploitable and the Big stack can push with any two cards and pick up free chips, or at least challenge the baby stack with a lot of dead chips in the pot.
I was almost positive that watever hand I had was better or at least good enough to challenge the small stack with all the dead chips in the middle.

[badandy519]

He was pissed because he just wanted a free ride to ITM. Even if the shortie wins the hand, you can still steal blinds like crazy with the bubble still alive.