HELP WITH RULES

Hey all,

I'm playing an MTT on PP right now.

the blinds are at 100/200.

I pick up A 9 suited and raise to 550.

One caller plus the guy to my right goes ALL IN for his last 300.

Flop comes.... 9, 4, 5.... rainbow. I'm up first and CHECK.

The first caller bets like 600. I push over the top he calls and shows some lame all flush draw that misses and I take it down.

After he left everyone is calling me a HERO for pushing over him. Saying he should have checked it down like I started to.

What is the right thing to do?? I re-raised preflop last week after an all in and got yelled at by the table.???

HELP......

It all depends on how deep in the tourney you are, etc etc. The rule is don't BLUFF into a dry sidepot. If you and another player call a short stacks all in, it is acceptable to bet if you are protecting your hand, like if you caught top pair, or say you hit a set or something and you want to start a nice little sidepot.

OK...

So no Bluffs.... like the guy bet on a lame draw...thats WRONG.

but I could have bet my TPTK.

Is that it?

Right,
Say the same donk bets his flush draw there and pushed you off of your middle pair, and he misses his draw and the shortie triples up with bottom pair. Normally, if you are going to gain something (say busting the shortie on the bubble) then it is pretty much an unwritten rule that you just check it down, unless you have a hand and feel you can get more chips out of the other person in the pot with you.

perfectly fine. You had best hand and this guy decided to semi-bluff a dry side pot. He's the one bending the rules

And the re-raise of an all in Pre-flop is a great play. At the foxwoods tournament, someone raised pre-flop with Q5 after a short stack (Chip Jett) went all in... after two limpers... he automatically won a sweet sidepot (like 7k) and then proceeded to win the hand when he flopped two pair

of course, going all in on a dry side pot with Q high and letting the guy with K high win everything... while you folded A high is just absolute bs... stupid and well, you know how it goes