From Sklansky's Tournament Book

[Windbreaker]

That scenerio I gave was just an extreme example of a situation where folding is more advantagous. I'm pretty sure this is pretty much what Sklansky is thinking (I've never read the book).

For players to push all in with relatively low stacks to a chip leaders raise during this stage of the tourney is wrong, UNLESS they have one of the top hands. They are one away from the money and are going to get called by the chip leader. If they instead fold, they can move up a few positions and get paid a lot more.

The time in point where calling an short stacks bet is better is simply when it gives you a better opportunity to win more money - (not chips). Eliminating a very small stack right result in you gaining a relatively small and *insignificant* amount of chips. Eg. What good does adding another 2 or 3% to your chips stack at this point? Will it improve your chances to win the tourney drastically?

Instead, if you're sitting at the 5 or 6 handed table. And you have the second most chips at the table, with about half the size of the big stack. You come in from the cutoff position with a 3x the BB raise in cutoff....and the big chip stack reraises it to 12x BB, are you really going to be pushing back when it's bubble time? You stand to gain a lot more chips.