Bluffing into dry sidepots...when dumb people get dumber

[bdawg31]

Do you think its ever worthwhile to consider where the chips will go? Say you are at a final table - a weak player who lucked his way to this point goes all-in from the button for about 5x BB. You are chip leader - but the player you fear the most has about an average stack. He is on SB and you are on BB. SB calls. You call with AJo. Flop comes three rags - but two suits. SB checks. I assume most of you would check as well. But what if you bet and force the SB player (who you are worried about) to fold? So, now we have a situation where maybe you forced the SB strong player out and that allows you to win the hand. (i.e. the weak player went all-in with A10o or whatever and your AJ holds up - where the SB might have threw away bottom pair or thrown away a draw he could have hit). But, say that you do this and the all-in short-stack wins a hand that the SB would have won if he stayed in. The SB rants and raves - but look what happened. You kept chips away from the strong player - it cost you nothing extra - and the chips went to the WEAK player who is close to your right.

I am not saying this is a good or bad way of thinkng - just putting it out there for discussion. I guess part of it depends on how important it is to a player to gain an extra money spot vs. playing more for the win.